The Green Papers: 2012 General Election |
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Arizona 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 Open |
Republican | Senator Jon L. Kyl First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006 [also served in U.S. House- elected: 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992] Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Open Seat - 10 February 2011: Announced retirement |
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Republican | 1,104,457 | 49.23% | Congressman Jeff Flake CD 6 FEC S2AZ00141; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,007,856; Dsb $9,334,524 |
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Democratic | 1,036,542 | 46.20% | former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona FEC S2AZ00232; 26 Nov 12; Tot $6,459,521; Dsb $6,270,596 |
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Libertarian | 102,109 | 4.55% | Marc J. Victor Nominated in the 28 August 2012 Primary as a write-in candidate. FEC S2AZ00299; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,336; Dsb $8,334 |
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Write-in; (Independent) | 290 | 0.01% | Steven Richard Watts FEC S2AZ00307; 12 Nov 12; Tot $3,000; Dsb $1,155 |
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Write-in; (Independent) | 24 | 0.00% | Don Manspeaker FEC S2AZ00315 |
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Total | 2,243,422 | 100.00% | |||
Indiana 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 Lost |
Republican | Senator Richard G. Lugar First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Lost Primary / No Longer Running - Defeated in 8 May 2012 Primary |
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Democratic | 1,281,181 | 50.04% | Congressman Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly 9 May 2011: Congressman CD 2. Running for the Class 1 Senate Seat in 2012. FEC S2IN00091; 26 Nov 12; Tot $5,572,319; Dsb $5,496,760 |
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Republican | 1,133,621 | 44.28% | Treasurer Richard E. Mourdock FEC S2IN00083; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,982,053; Dsb $8,698,721 |
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Libertarian | 145,282 | 5.67% | Andrew Michael "Andy" Horning FEC S2IN00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $4,907; Dsb $2,905 |
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Write-in; (Workers World) | 15 | 0.00% | James L. Johnson, Jr. FEC S2IN00117 |
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Write-in; (Independent) | 3 | 0.00% | Amy J. Willis FEC S2IN00125 |
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Total | 2,560,102 | 100.00% | |||
Maine 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 Open |
Republican | Senator Olympia J. Snowe First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006 [also served in U.S. House-elected: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992] Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Open Seat - 28 February 2012: "After an extraordinary amount of reflection and consideration, I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate." |
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Independent | 370,580 | 51.13% | former Governor Angus Stanley King, Jr. 28 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent for Maine. 14 November 2012: After being elected as an Independent, Senator-elect King announced that he will caucus with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. FEC S2ME00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $2,901,504; Dsb $2,732,563 |
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Republican | 215,399 | 29.72% | Secretary of State Charles Edward Summers, Jr. FEC S2ME00133; 26 Nov 12; Tot $1,288,121; Dsb $1,280,034 |
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Democratic | 92,900 | 12.82% | state Senator Cynthia Ann Dill FEC S2ME00083; 26 Nov 12; Tot $184,364; Dsb $189,028 |
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Scattering | 24,121 | 3.33% | BLANK | ||
Independent | 10,289 | 1.42% | Yarmouth Town Council Man Stephen M. "Steve" Woods 22 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent. 4 November 2012: Woods leaves Senate race, endorses King. FEC S2ME00166; 31 Dec 12; Tot $72,495; Dsb $72,493 |
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Nonpartisan | 5,807 | 0.80% | Danny Francis Dalton Political Designation: Non-party FEC S2ME00174 |
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Independent; (Libertarian) | 5,624 | 0.78% | Andrew Ian Dodge 22 February 2012: Announced he is leaving the Republican party and will run as an Independent - "I have no faith that the Maine Republicans can run a fair primary". 5 March 2012: Running as a Libertarian. 31 May 2012: Political Designation: Independent for Liberty FEC S2ME00059; 06 Nov 12; Tot $0; Dsb $0 |
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12 June 2012: Lost Democratic Primary. 2 August 2012: Running as a write-in in the General Election. FEC S2ME00091; 23 May 12; Tot $9,400; Dsb $9,362 |
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Write-in; (Republican) | Michael Stoddard | ||||
Total | 724,720 | 100.00% | |||
Massachusetts 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator Scott P. Brown First elected in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy: 19 January 2010. He replaced Senator Paul G. Kirk, Jr. (Democratic) who had been appointed by Governor Deval L. Patrick (Democratic) to temporarily fill the vacancy. Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 6 September 2012 Primary |
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Democratic | 1,696,346 | 53.27% | Elizabeth A. Warren FEC S2MA00170; 26 Nov 12; Tot $42,040,727; Dsb $41,212,005 |
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Republican | 1,458,048 | 45.79% | Senator Scott P. Brown FEC S0MA00109; 26 Nov 12; Tot $28,135,922; Dsb $34,857,978 |
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Scattering | 27,643 | 0.87% | Blanks | ||
Scattering | 2,159 | 0.07% | All others | ||
Write-in; (Socialist Workers Party) | Laura Garza | ||||
Total | 3,184,196 | 100.00% | |||
Mississippi 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator Roger F. Wicker Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 Appointed 31 December 2007 to fill the vacancy caused by the 18 December 2007 resignation of Senator Trent Lott. First elected in a special election: 4 November 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 13 March 2012 Primary |
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Republican | 709,626 | 57.16% | Senator Roger F. Wicker FEC S8MS00196; 26 Nov 12; Tot $3,382,302; Dsb $1,462,626 |
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Democratic | 503,467 | 40.55% | Albert N. Gore, Jr. FEC S2MS00074 |
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Constitution | 15,281 | 1.23% | Thomas Everett "Tom" Cramer FEC S2MS00124; 26 Nov 12; Tot $3,130; Dsb $2,595 |
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Reform | 13,194 | 1.06% | Shawn O'Hara FEC S4MS00062 |
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Total | 1,241,568 | 100.00% | |||
Nevada 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator Dean Heller Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First appointed: 3 May 2011. Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 12 June 2012 Primary |
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Republican | 457,656 | 45.87% | Senator Dean Heller Congressman from Congressional District 2. 10 March 2011: Media reports state that Congressman Heller will run for the Class 1 Senate seat in 2012. The congressman made it official on 15 March. 23 April 2011: Likely appointee once Senator John Ensign resigns. 27 April 2011: Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (Republican) announced today that he will appoint Congressman Dean Heller (Republican) to fill the seat of Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) upon Senator Ensign's 3 May resignation. FEC S2NV00183; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,341,391; Dsb $9,101,891 |
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Democratic | 446,080 | 44.71% | Congressman Shelley Berkley 14 April 2011: Announced she is running for the Senate Class 1 seat in 2012. FEC S2NV00209; 26 Nov 12; Tot $10,538,708; Dsb $11,590,088 |
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Independent American | 48,792 | 4.89% | David Lory VanderBeek FEC S2NV00274 |
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None of these candidates | 45,277 | 4.54% | None of these candidates | ||
Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) resigned on 3 May 2011. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. He also served in U.S. House being elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1996. On 7 March 2011, the Senator announced his retirement at the end of his current term. On 21 April 2011, he announced his resignation effective 3 May 2011-- "While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings. For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great." On 27 April 2011, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval (Republican) announced that he would appoint Congressman Dean Heller (Republican, CD 2) to fill the seat of Senator John Eric Ensign (Republican) upon Senator Ensign's 3 May resignation. The next regular election for this seat is on Tuesday 6 November 2012. | |||||
Total | 997,805 | 100.00% | |||
Tennessee 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator Robert P. "Bob" Corker, Jr. Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First elected: 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 2 August Primary |
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Republican | 1,506,443 | 64.89% | Senator Robert P. "Bob" Corker, Jr. FEC S6TN00216; 26 Nov 12; Tot $9,990,305; Dsb $4,965,370 |
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Democratic | 705,882 | 30.41% | Mark E. Clayton FEC S8TN00279 |
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Green | 38,472 | 1.66% | Martin Gene Pleasant FEC S2TN00355 |
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Independent; (Libertarian) | 20,936 | 0.90% | Shaun E. Crowell FEC S2TN00256; 05 Dec 12; Tot $25,162; Dsb $23,084 |
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Constitution | 18,620 | 0.80% | Kermit Steck FEC S2TN00363 |
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Independent | 8,085 | 0.35% | James Higdon FEC S2TN00322 |
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Independent | 8,080 | 0.35% | Michel Joseph Long FEC S2TN00330 |
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Independent | 7,148 | 0.31% | Troy Stephen Scoggin FEC S2TN00348 |
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Independent | 6,523 | 0.28% | David Gatchell FEC S6TN00299 |
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Write-in | 470 | 0.02% | Angelia Stinnett | ||
Write-in | 409 | 0.02% | Jacob Maurer | ||
Write-in; (Democratic) | 218 | 0.01% | Larry Crim FEC S2TN00223; 30 Sep 12; Tot $43,355; Dsb $36,423 |
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Write-in | 117 | 0.01% | Jim Maynard | ||
Write-in | 23 | 0.00% | Margie Nell Penn | ||
Write-in; (Democratic) | 18 | 0.00% | Gary Gene Davis FEC S2TN00082 |
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Write-in | 14 | 0.00% | Lee Stewart | ||
Write-in | 12 | 0.00% | Christopher Schappert | ||
Write-in | 5 | 0.00% | Allen Hoenicke | ||
Write-in; (Independent) | 2 | 0.00% | Mary D. Wright FEC S0TN00060 |
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Write-in; (Republican) | 0 | 0.00% | Fred R. Anderson FEC S2TN00306 |
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Write-in | 0 | 0.00% | De Wayne A. Jones | ||
Total | 2,321,477 | 100.00% | |||
Texas 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 Open |
Republican | Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1 May 1993- and necessary subsequent Runoff: 5 June 1993 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (Democrat): 20 January 1993- which Robert Krueger had been appointed by Governor Ann W. Richards (Democrat) to fill, 21 January 1993]; elected to full term: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Open Seat - 13 January 2011: "I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for re-election in 2012...". |
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Republican | 4,440,137 | 56.46% | former Solicitor General Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz Nominated in Runoff: 31 July 2012 FEC S2TX00312; 26 Nov 12; Tot $14,881,758; Dsb $14,187,992 |
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Democratic | 3,194,927 | 40.62% | former state Representative Paul Lindsey Sadler Nominated in Runoff: 31 July 2012 FEC S2TX00429; 26 Nov 12; Tot $709,476; Dsb $498,325 |
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Libertarian | 162,354 | 2.06% | John Jay Myers FEC S2TX00502; 16 Nov 12; Tot $15,440; Dsb $15,440 |
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Green | 67,404 | 0.86% | David Bruce Collins FEC S2TX00486 |
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Total | 7,864,822 | 100.00% | |||
Utah 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator Orrin G. Hatch Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 26 June 2012 Primary |
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Republican | 657,608 | 65.31% | Senator Orrin G. Hatch 21 April 2012: Came in first place at the Convention but did not win 60%. Proceeds to 26 June primary. FEC S6UT00063; 26 Nov 12; Tot $8,907,906; Dsb $10,534,460 |
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Democratic | 301,873 | 29.98% | Scott N. Howell 21 April 2012: Won his party's nomination with 63%. FEC S0UT00066; 26 Nov 12; Tot $414,018; Dsb $395,576 |
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Constitution | 31,905 | 3.17% | Shaun Lynn McCausland FEC S2UT00245 |
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Justice Party | 8,342 | 0.83% | Daniel Geery FEC S2UT00260 |
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Unaffiliated | 7,172 | 0.71% | William Currie "Bill" Barron FEC S2UT00187; 26 Nov 12; Tot $16,884; Dsb $13,829 |
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Write-in; (Unaffiliated) | 1 | 0.00% | Joann S. Secrist FEC S2UT00278 |
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Total | 1,006,901 | 100.00% | |||
Wyoming 6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican | |||||
Class 1 |
Republican | Senator John A. Barrasso Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 Appointed: 22 June 2007 by Governor Dave Freudenthal; first elected in a special election: 4 November 2008 Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 21 August 2012 Primary |
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Republican | 185,250 | 73.89% | Senator John A. Barrasso FEC S6WY00068; 26 Nov 12; Tot $4,094,792; Dsb $2,054,227 |
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Democratic | 53,019 | 21.15% | Albany County Commissioner Tim Chesnut FEC S2WY00109 |
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Wyoming Country | 6,176 | 2.46% | Joel Otto FEC S2WY00133 |
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Scattering | 5,747 | 2.29% | Under Votes | ||
Scattering | 417 | 0.17% | Write-Ins | ||
Scattering | 91 | 0.04% | Over Votes | ||
Total | 250,700 | 100.00% |
Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |
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Democratic-Farmer Labor | |
Democratic-Nonpartisan League | |
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Constitution | |
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Libertarian | |
Reform | |
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America First | |
Common Sense | |
Conservative | |
Democratic/Republican | |
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Independence | |
Independent American | |
Independent Party of Connecticut | |
Independent Party Of Delaware | |
Justice Party | |
Liberty Union | |
Marijuana | |
Mountain | |
Natural Law | |
Progressive | |
Socialist Party USA | |
Socialist Workers Party | |
U.S. Taxpayers | |
Workers World | |
Working Families | |
Wyoming Country | |
Independents | |
Independent | |
Independent Democrat | |
No Party Affiliation | |
Nonpartisan | |
Unaffiliated | |
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable | |
None of these candidates | |
Scattering | |
Write-in |
Notes |
Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot. "FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary. When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details. If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements. Senate ClassClass 1 seats end their current terms at noon on 3 January 2013... next regular election for these seats is in 6 November 2012. For more information on Senate Classes refer to UNITED STATES SENATE: Electoral "Classes". Article I, Section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "Immediately after [the Senate of the United States] shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year..." Pursuant to this Constitutional provision, a three-Senator Committee was appointed by the Senate on 11 May 1789 to come up with a plan to carry out the requirements of that provision; this Committee reported to the Senate on 14 May 1789 a plan to divide the then 20 Senators (there were 10 of the 13 original States represented in the Senate at the time- each having 2 Senators: North Carolina and Rhode Island had yet to ratify the U.S. Constitution, while New York had so ratified but had failed to elect Senators as of that date) into the requisite three electoral Classes: under this plan, three groups of Senators (set up in such a way so as no State had its two Senators in the same group) were to be listed and the first Senator on each list (a list which was set up geographically north-to-south in the manner in which the Electoral Vote for President was counted before Congress at that time, so that two of the first Senators on these lists were from New Hampshire and the third was the first Senator in alphabetical order from Massachusetts) was to each blindly draw a piece of paper numbered either "1", "2" or "3" out of a box in the possession of the Secretary of the Senate. This plan being agreeable to the Senate and so approved, the drawing of lots in this manner was carried out the following day (15 May 1789)- such lot drawing ultimately determining that, to start with, Classes 1 and 2 were to have 7 Senators each and Class 3 was to have only 6 Senators. When New York finally seated its two Senators during the ensuing Summer, there was another lot drawing (actually a double-lot drawing) on 28 July 1789 to determine the Classes for these seats: since one of the seats had to be Class 3 to make it equal in number to that of the other two Classes so far, the two New York Senators each blindly drew between two pieces of paper, one marked "3", the other which was blank- after this, there was a second lot drawing in which the New York Senator who had drawn the blank paper blindly drew again between two pieces of paper marked "1" and "2": he drew "1" so that New York would henceforth have Senators of electoral Classes 1 and 3. When North Carolina seated its two Senators after ratifying the Constitution on 21 November 1789, there was yet another lot drawing (on 29 January 1790) in which North Carolina's two Senators each blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "2" and "3" (since there were now 12 States and, thus, 24 Senators: 24 being equally divisible by 3, there would now have to be 8 Senators in each of the three Classes to fulfill the Constitutional provision that, as nearly as was practicable, one third of the Senate be elected every second year). After Rhode Island- the last of the 13 original States- finally ratified the Constitution on 29 May 1790 and subsequently seated its two Senators that Summer, there was yet one more lot drawing in the First Congress (on 25 June 1790) in which Rhode Island's two Senators blindly drew between pieces of paper marked "1", "2" and "3": one Senator drew "2", the other drew "1"- thereby determining electoral Classes 1 and 2 as those for the Senators from this State. When Vermont was admitted to the Union as the 14th state on 4 March 1791, there was again a double lot drawing as there had been for New York. From that day until this, whenever a new State has been admitted to the Union, these types of lot drawings (the type determined by the necessity of keeping the number of Senators in each electoral Class as close to one third as possible at the time of said lot drawing) between the new State's first Senators is held before the Senate to determine in just which of the three electoral Classes that State's Senate seats will be placed from then on. |
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