Election to the United States Senate in 1924

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On November 4, 1924 and September 8, in the state of Maine , one-third of the members of the United States Senate were elected. The election was part of the general election to the 69th United States Congress that year, which also elected all members of the House of Representatives. The 1924 presidential election , won by Republican Calvin Coolidge , also took place at the same time .

Since the adoption of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, all US senators in their respective states have been directly elected by the people of their state. Each state has 2 senators. Under the United States Constitution , US Senators are elected for six years. However, all members of the Senate are never elected at the same time. The election follows a scheme according to which a third of the senators are elected every two years at the same time as the election to the US House of Representatives. For this purpose, the Senate is divided into three classes , which determine the election year of the Senators. In 1924 the Senators of Class II stood for election. At that time, the United States consisted of 48 states. This results in a total of 96 senators, 34 of whom stood for election.

Senate composition after the election

Total: 96

The results of the last election on November 7, 1922 are in brackets. Changes after the election that do not affect the election as such are not included in these figures. But are noted in the article on the 69th Congress in the section on the members of the Senate by the corresponding names of the senators.

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