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Senate Seats by State

This is a list of the current Senate seats and the incumbents occupying them. Not counting special elections, 34 Senate Seats are up for election on 8 November 2016.

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Alabama  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,335,104 63.96% Senator Richard C. Shelby
FEC S6AL00013; 28 Nov 16; Tot $3,463,603; Dsb $11,491,220
Total 2,087,444 100.00%  

Alaska  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 138,149 44.36% Senator Lisa Murkowski
FEC S4AK00099; 28 Nov 16; Tot $4,374,594; Dsb $5,964,519
Total 311,441 100.00%  

Arizona  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,359,267 53.71% Senator John Sidney McCain
FEC S6AZ00019; 31 Dec 16; Tot $11,756,078; Dsb $13,353,389
Total 2,530,730 100.00%  

Arkansas  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 661,984 59.77% Senator John Nichols Boozman
FEC S0AR00150; 28 Nov 16; Tot $4,174,420; Dsb $3,861,021
Total 1,107,522 100.00%  

California  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 7,542,753 61.60% Attorney General Kamala D. Harris
FEC S6CA00584; 28 Nov 16; Tot $15,221,436; Dsb $14,102,174
Total 12,244,170 100.00%  

Colorado  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 1,370,710 49.97% Senator Michael F. Bennet
FEC S0CO00211; 28 Nov 16; Tot $15,539,412; Dsb $14,841,265
Total 2,743,029 100.00%  

Connecticut  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic; Working Families 1,008,714 63.19% Senator Richard Blumenthal
FEC S0CT00177; 28 Nov 16; Tot $7,334,649; Dsb $4,989,225
Total 1,596,276 100.00%  

Florida  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 4,835,191 51.98% Senator Marco Rubio
22 June 2016: Announced he will seek re-election.
13 April 2015: Announced he will run for President in 2016. He will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate.

FEC S0FL00338; 28 Nov 16; Tot $16,552,797; Dsb $16,178,563
Total 9,301,820 100.00%  

Georgia  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 2,135,806 54.78% Senator John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson
FEC S6GA00119; 28 Nov 16; Tot $8,444,906; Dsb $9,847,235
Total 3,898,605 100.00%  

Hawaii  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 306,604 70.05% Senator Brian Emanuel Schatz
FEC S4HI00136; 28 Nov 16; Tot $3,813,588; Dsb $2,511,657
Total 437,664 100.00%  

Idaho  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 449,017 66.13% Senator Michael D. "Mike" Crapo
FEC S8ID00027; 28 Nov 16; Tot $4,285,391; Dsb $4,835,364
Total 678,943 100.00%  

Illinois  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 3,012,940 54.86% Congressman L. Tammy Duckworth
CD 8.
27 March 2015: Running for US Senate Class 3 Seat in 2016.

FEC S6IL00292; 28 Nov 16; Tot $16,309,304; Dsb $16,540,142
Total 5,491,878 100.00%  

Indiana  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 1,423,991 52.11% Congressman Todd Christopher Young
CD 9.
12 July 2015: Announced his candidacy for the Class 3 U.S. Senate seat.
12 February 2016: The Indiana Democratic Party announced that it would challenge Congressman Young's ballot petitions at the 19 February state Election Division hearing.
19 February 2016: The Indiana Election Commission votes 2-2 that Todd Young should be on the ballot.

FEC S6IN00191; 28 Nov 16; Tot $10,473,855; Dsb $11,116,773
Total 2,732,546 100.00%  

Iowa  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 926,007 60.09% Senator Charles E. "Chuck" Grassley
FEC S0IA00028; 28 Nov 16; Tot $8,951,770; Dsb $9,687,623
Total 1,541,036 100.00%  

Kansas  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 732,376 62.18% Senator Jerry Moran
FEC S0KS00091; 28 Nov 16; Tot $4,486,700; Dsb $4,629,386
Total 1,177,922 100.00%  

Kentucky  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,090,177 57.27% Senator Rand Paul
24 May 2013: Announced that he would seek re-election in 2016.
23 July 2013: Filed with the FEC to run the US Senate in 2016.
2 December 2014: Formally announced that he would seek re-election in 2016.
7 April 2015: "I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government."

FEC S0KY00156; 28 Nov 16; Tot $4,902,276; Dsb $7,250,052
Total 1,903,465 100.00%  

Louisiana  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 536,191 60.65% Treasurer John Neely Kennedy
26 January 2016: Running for the Senate Class 3 seat in 2016.

FEC S4LA00065; 20 Nov 16; Tot $4,380,096; Dsb $3,026,587
Total 884,007 100.00%  

Maryland  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,659,907 60.89% Congressman Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr.
Congressman CD 8.
4 March 2015: Announced.

FEC S6MD03441; 28 Nov 16; Tot $11,914,048; Dsb $11,333,458
Total 2,726,170 100.00%  

Missouri  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,378,458 49.18% Senator Roy Blunt
FEC S0MO00183; 28 Nov 16; Tot $12,057,363; Dsb $13,981,620
Total 2,802,641 100.00%  

Nevada  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican, 1 Democratic

Class 3  
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 521,994 47.10% former Attorney General Catherine Marie Cortez-Masto
FEC S6NV00200; 28 Nov 16; Tot $19,878,015; Dsb $18,830,739
Total 1,108,294 100.00%  

New Hampshire  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 354,649 47.98% Governor Margaret Wood "Maggie" Hassan
FEC S6NH00091; 28 Nov 16; Tot $18,618,880; Dsb $18,311,444
Total 739,140 100.00%  

New York  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic; Independence; Women's Equality; Working Families 5,221,945 66.94% Senator Charles E. "Chuck" Schumer
FEC S8NY00082; 28 Nov 16; Tot $17,379,696; Dsb $20,006,883
Total 7,800,619 100.00%  

North Carolina  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 2,395,376 51.06% Senator Richard Mauze Burr
FEC S4NC00089; 28 Nov 16; Tot $12,552,200; Dsb $12,844,539
Total 4,691,133 100.00%  

North Dakota  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 268,788 78.48% Senator John Hoeven
FEC S0ND00093; 28 Nov 16; Tot $2,935,393; Dsb $2,062,483
Total 342,501 100.00%  

Ohio  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 3,118,567 58.03% Senator Robert Jones "Rob" Portman
FEC S0OH00133; 28 Nov 16; Tot $19,824,166; Dsb $24,802,458
Total 5,374,164 100.00%  

Oklahoma  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 980,892 67.74% Senator James Paul Lankford
FEC S4OK00232; 28 Nov 16; Tot $3,041,503; Dsb $2,561,099
Total 1,448,047 100.00%  

Oregon  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 1,105,119 56.60% Senator Ronald Lee "Ron" Wyden
FEC S6OR00110; 28 Nov 16; Tot $8,616,115; Dsb $7,393,277
Total 1,952,478 100.00%  

Pennsylvania  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 2,951,702 48.77% Senator Patrick Joseph "Pat" Toomey
FEC S4PA00121; 28 Nov 16; Tot $21,925,370; Dsb $27,559,285
Total 6,051,856 100.00%  

South Carolina  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,241,609 60.57% Senator Timothy E. "Tim" Scott
FEC S4SC00240; 28 Nov 16; Tot $6,158,529; Dsb $4,597,452
Total 2,049,893 100.00%  

South Dakota  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 265,516 71.83% Senator John R. Thune
FEC S2SD00068; 28 Nov 16; Tot $5,196,776; Dsb $4,192,616
Total 369,656 100.00%  

Utah  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 760,241 68.15% Senator Mike Lee
FEC S0UT00165; 28 Nov 16; Tot $3,970,606; Dsb $3,947,031
Total 1,115,608 100.00%  

Vermont  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Independent, 1 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 192,243 59.99% Senator Patrick J. Leahy
FEC S4VT00017; 28 Nov 16; Tot $3,927,834; Dsb $3,141,457
Total 320,467 100.00%  

Washington  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 2 Democratic

Class 3  
  Elected Democratic 1,913,979 59.01% Senator Patricia L. "Patty" Murray
FEC S2WA00189; 28 Nov 16; Tot $10,157,983; Dsb $8,243,363
Total 3,243,317 100.00%  

Wisconsin  6-year term. No Term Limit. Senate Electoral Classes
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Class 3  
  Elected Republican 1,479,471 50.17% Senator Ronald Harold "Ron" Johnson
FEC S0WI00197; 28 Nov 16; Tot $17,634,271; Dsb $18,090,962
Total 2,948,741 100.00%  

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.

Major Parties
  Democratic
  Democratic-Farmer Labor
  Democratic-Nonpartisan League
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Constitution
  Green
  Libertarian
  Pacific Green
  Reform
Other Third Parties
  America's Party
  American
  American Shopping
  Conservative
  Independence
  Independent American
  Independent Party of Oregon
  Liberty Union
  Marijuana
  New Independent Party Iowa
  Progressive
  Socialist Party USA
  Unity
  Veterans Party of America
  Women's Equality
  Working Families
Independents
  Independent
  No Affiliation
  No Party Affiliation
  No Poliitical Party
  Nominated By Petition
  Non Affiliated
  None
  Nonparty
  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 Class

Class 1 seats begin their terms at noon on 3 January 2013 and end their terms on 3 January 2019. The next regular election for these seats is in 6 November 2018.
Class 2 seats begin their terms at noon on 3 January 2015 and end their terms on 3 January 2021. The next regular election for these seats is 3 November 2020.
Class 3 seats begin their terms at noon on 3 January 2011 and end their terms on 3 January 2017. The next regular election for these seats is 8 November 2016.

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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