Elected to the United States Senate in 2000

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Distribution of seats
  
A total of 100 seats
Senate elections 2000
  • Democrats, held
  • Democrats, gained
  • Republicans, held
  • Republicans, gained

    • On November 7, 2000 , one-third of the members of the US 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. In addition, the presidential election, won by George W. Bush , took place on the same day .

    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 2000, the Class I senators stood for election.

    Before the election, 54 senators were Republicans and 46 were Democrats. In the election, the Republicans lost four seats to the Democrats. This resulted in a stalemate of 50 Republican senators against 50 Democratic ones. For 17 days, this stalemate was bridged in favor of the Democrats by the vote of Democratic Vice President Al Gore , who served as the formal President of the Senate. On January 20, 2001, Republican Dick Cheney assumed the office of Vice President and thus also the formal presidency of the Senate. His vote now tipped the majority in favor of the Republicans. This state lasted until June 6, 2001. That day Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican faction. He declared himself an independent senator and henceforth voted with the Democrats.

    Results

    Power balance in the Senate on January 4, 2001
  • 50 Democratic Senators
  • 50 Republican Senators
    • Political party
    (Shading shows majority party)

    D = Democrats

    I = Independent

    R = Republican

    IMN = Independence Party of Minnesota

    		Total Notes
    D. I. R. IMN Vacant
    End of the 106th Congress 46 0 54 0 100 0
    Election result of Nov. 7, 2000, the legislative period began on January 3, 2001 50 0 50 0 100 0 Vice President Al Gore (D) decided the tie with his vote
    January 20, 2001 50 50 The new Vice President Dick Cheney decided the tie with his vote.
    June 6, 2001 50 1 49 Jim Jeffords switched from Republicans to Independents and voted for Democrats.
    October 25, 2002 49 99 1 Paul Wellstone (D) passed away.
    November 5, 2002 1 100 0 Dean Barkley ( Reform Party ) took over Wellstone's seat.
    November 25, 2002 48 1 50 Jim Talent (R) took over the seat from Jean Carnahan (D). But there was no reorganization because the Senate did not have a session.
    November 30, 2002 49 99 1 Resignation of Phil Gramm (R)
    December 2, 2002 50 100 0 John Cornyn (R) became Gramm's successor
    Final vote ratio 49% 50% 1 %
    Beginning of the 108th Congress 48 1 51 0 100 0

    Absolute votes in the November 7, 2000 election:

    Democrats: 36,780,875 votes (47.04%), gained 4 seats to 50 seats

    Republicans: 36,725,431 votes (46.96%), lost 4 seats to 50 seats.

    Other: 4,685,491 votes (6.0%). No mandates.

    Personnel changes

    In total, the Democrats won six seats previously held by the Republicans. Incumbents lost William V. Roth to Tom Carper in Delaware , Spencer Abraham to Debbie Stabenow in Michigan , Rod Grams to Mark Dayton in Minnesota , John Ashcroft to Mel Carnahan in Missouri and Slade Gorton to Maria Cantwell in Washington . In addition, Connie Mack did not run in Florida , whose party colleague Bill McCollum was defeated by the Democrat Bill Nelson .

    At the same time, however, two seats changed from the Democrats to the Republicans. In Virginia , Chuck Robb had to cede his seat to George Allen ; in Nevada , Richard Bryan waived re-election, whereupon Edward M. Bernstein , who was nominated in his place, suffered a significant defeat by John Ensign .

    Three other Democratic senators missed the opportunity for re-election, with their party holding the seats. In Nebraska followed Ben Nelson to Bob Kerrey , in New Jersey Jon Corzine on Frank Lautenberg and New York Hillary Clinton on Daniel Patrick Moynihan .

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