Elected to the United States Senate in 1986
The 1986 election to the United States Senate for the 100th United States Congress took place on November 4th. She was part of the elections in the United States on that day and it was half-time choice (Engl. Midterm election ) in the middle of President Ronald Reagan 's second term. In 1980, the Republicans won 12 seats in the Senate from the Democrats in Ronald Reagan's first election. Six of these seats were lost again in 1986.
The 34 seats of class III were up for election, there were no by-elections for senators of the other classes who had left office prematurely. In North Carolina , the seat was filled both in a by-election for the remainder of the old term and in the election for the new term. 12 of these senators were from the Democratic Party and 22 from the Republicans . 21 incumbents were able to defend their seats, 9 Democrats and 12 Republicans. The Republicans won a seat previously held by the Democrats, but lost nine seats to the Democrats. This reduced the number of Republican senators from 53 to 45, while the Democrats improved from 47 to 55, gaining a majority in the Senate.
In March 1987, Democratic Senator from Nebraska Edward Zorinsky died . Governor Kay A. Orr named Republican David Karnes to succeed him. This reduced the democratic majority to 54 to 46 seats.
Results
The winners of these elections were accepted into the Senate on January 3, 1987, when the 100th Congress met . All seats of these senators belong to class III .
- Appointed: Senator was appointed by the governor to replace a retired Senator, by-election required
- re-elected: an elected incumbent was re-elected
States
North Carolina
Senator John Porter East , elected in 1980, committed suicide in June 1986; Jim Broyhill was appointed to succeed him. Elections were held in November for both the remaining weeks of East's tenure and the new six-year term. In both, Broyhill had to admit defeat to Democrat Terry Sanford . The election for the remaining eight weeks of East's term of office won Sanford with 50.9% against 49.1% for Broyhill, the election for the new term of office with 51.8% to 48.2%.