Elected to the United States Senate in 1998

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Distribution of seats
  
A total of 100 seats
Senate elections 1998
  • Democrats, held
  • Democrats, gained
  • Republicans, held
  • Republicans, gained

    • On November 3, 1998 , one-third of the members of the United States Senate were elected in the United States . The election was part of the general election that year in which all members of the House of Representatives were elected. Each of the 50 states has 2 representatives in the Senate. 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 1998 the class III senators stood for election.

    Before the election, 55 senators were Republicans and 45 were Democrats. These majority ratios did not change after the election.

    Results and course of the legislative period

    Majority ratios at the opening of the 106th Congress
  • Democratic Senators
  • Republican Senators

    • Membership changed during the legislative period due to two deaths.

    course Political party
    (Shading indicates majority party)
    		 Total
    republican Democrats Vacant
    End of the 105th Congress 55 45 100 0
    Election result of November 3, 1998, the legislative period began on January 3, 1999. 55 45 100 0
    October 25, 1999 54 99 1
    November 2, 1999 55 100 0
    July 19, 2000 54 99 1
    July 25, 2000 46 100 0
    Final share of the vote 54% 46%
    Beginning of the 107th Congress 50 50 100 0

    The exact results of the November 3, 1998 election:

    Democrats: 26,768,699 votes (49.47%) No changes in mandates (45)

    Republicans: 25,346,613 votes (46.84%) No changes in mandates (55)

    Other: 1,999,739 votes (3.69%). No mandates.

    Explanation: Since the absolute majority of the votes cast nationwide does not usually decide in the US elections, but the votes in the individual electoral districts, which are identical to an entire state in the election of the US Senators, it can happen that the nationwide leading party (here the Democrats) still does not win the most seats.

    Personnel changes

    Although nothing changed in the total number of mandates, there were some personnel changes. On the democratic side, Dale Bumpers from Arkansas decided not to stand for re-election, whose mandate fell to his party colleague Blanche Lincoln . After the resignation of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republicans held his seat in Idaho in the person of Mike Crapo .

    Otherwise three seats changed each time with regard to party affiliation. In New York the Republican incumbent Al D'Amato lost to the Democrat Charles Schumer , in North Carolina the Republican Lauch Faircloth had to cede his mandate to John Edwards . Another gain was made by the Democrats in Indiana , where Dan Coats did not run again and his party colleague Paul Helmke lost to Evan Bayh .

    Despite these three successes, the Democrats were denied a net success because they had to surrender three previously held mandates. For Wendell Ford , who was no longer a candidate , Scotty Baesler competed in Kentucky , but he just lost to Jim Bunning . In Ohio , John Glenn did not stand for re-election; Mary Boyle, nominated in his place, was clearly defeated by George Voinovich . Carol Moseley Braun missed re-election against Republican Peter G. Fitzgerald in Illinois .

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