The Green Papers: 2018 General Election
 
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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, 33 Senate Seats are up for election on 6 November 2018.

There have been 1 death, 3 resignations, and 0 changes re: party breakdown in the 115th Senate.

  • Senator Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions, III (Republican, Alabama Class 2) resigned on 8 February 2017 after being confirmed as Attorney General in the Trump administration by the U.S. Senate.
  • Senator Luther J. Strange, III (Republican, Alabama Class 2) was appointed on 9 February 2017 by Governor Robert J. Bentley (Republican).
  • Doug Jones (Democratic, Alabama Class 2) was elected in a Special Election on Tuesday 12 December 2017 and sworn on 3 January 2018.
  • Senator Al Franken (Democratic, Minnesota Class 2) resigned on 2 January 2018.
  • Senator Tina Smith (Democratic, Minnesota Class 2) was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton (Democratic) and sworn on 3 January 2018.
  • Senator Thad Cochran (Republican, Mississippi Class 2) resigned on 1 April 2018.
  • Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Republican, Mississippi Class 2) was appointed by Governor Governor Phil Bryant (Republican) and sworn on 9 April 2018.
  • Senator John Sidney McCain (Republican, Arizona Class 3) passed away on 25 August 2018 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  • Senator Jon Llewellyn Kyl (Republican, Arizona Class 3) was appointed on 4 September 2018 by Governor Doug Ducey (Republican) and sworn on 5 September 2018.
  • Senator Jon Llewellyn Kyl (Republican, Arizona Class 3) resigned on 31 December 2018.

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Open
Republican Senator Jeff Flake
First elected: 2012.
[also served in U.S. House- elected: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010]
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Open Seat - 24 October 2017: Will not seek re-election in 2018.
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,191,100 49.96% Congressman Kyrsten Sinema
Congressman CD 9.
28 September 2017: Running for the Senate Class 1 Seat in 2018.

FEC S8AZ00197; 26 Nov 18; Tot $22,409,922; Dsb $24,461,372
  Candidate Republican 1,135,200 47.61% Congressman Martha E. McSally
Congressional District 2

FEC S8AZ00221; 26 Nov 18; Tot $21,832,760; Dsb $20,769,002
  Candidate Green 57,442 2.41% Angela Green
2 November 2018: Media reports indicate Angela Green dropped out and endorsed Kyrsten Sinema (Democratic). Angela Green remains on the ballot.
5 November 2018: Removed from the list of candidates by the Secretary of State.
  Candidate Write-in; (Libertarian) 365 0.02% Barry Hess
  Candidate Write-in; (The Old Republic) 46 0.00% Jonathan Ringham B
  Candidate Write-in; (None) 45 0.00% Michael DeCarlo
  Candidate Write-in; (Democratic) 42 0.00% Sheila May Bilyeu
FEC S2AZ00273
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican) 37 0.00% Robert Kay
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent) 29 0.00% Jeff Pearce
  Candidate Write-in 2 0.00% Edward Davida
ANTI-TERROR Party
Total 2,384,308 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator Roger F. Wicker
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
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. Re-elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
  Elected Republican 547,619 58.49% Senator Roger F. Wicker
FEC S8MS00196; 26 Nov 18; Tot $6,110,561; Dsb $5,767,493
  Candidate Democratic 369,567 39.47% state Representative David Wayne Baria
Proceeds to Runoff, 26 June 2018

FEC S8MS00253; 17 Oct 18; Tot $781,291; Dsb $702,697
  Candidate Libertarian 12,981 1.39% Danny Bedwell
FEC S8MS00337
  Candidate Reform 6,048 0.65% Shawn O'Hara
circa 20 November 2018: Deceased

FEC S4MS00062
Total 936,215 100.00%  

Class 2
Seat up for special election
Special Election
Republican
Seat up for special election: Tuesday 27 November 2018
Special Election - Caused by the 1 April 2018 resignation of Senator Thad Cochran (Republican).
Since no candidate received a majority of the vote in the 6 November 2018 election, there will be a Tuesday 27 November 2018 non-partisan runoff between Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Republican) and former Congressman Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy (Democratic).
  Elected Nonpartisan; (Republican) 486,769 53.63% Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith
6 November 2018: Proceeds to 27 November runoff.

FEC S8MS00261; 17 Dec 18; Tot $5,511,098; Dsb $5,447,353
  Candidate Nonpartisan; (Democratic) 420,819 46.37% former Congressman Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy
First elected to the U.S. House: 1986. Re-elected 1988, 1990, 1992. Resigned: 22 January 1993 after having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President William J. "Bill" Clinton. Served as Secretary of Agriculture: 1993-1994.
6 November 2018: Proceeds to 27 November runoff.

FEC S8MS00287; 17 Dec 18; Tot $7,330,130; Dsb $7,091,999
 

3 April 2018: Governor Phil Bryant (Republican) set 6 November 2018 as the date for the Special U.S. Senate election. If no one receives a majority in the primary, the top 2 vote getters proceed to a 27 November non-partisan runoff. For special elections, all candidates run in a non-partisan primary. Party labels do not appear on the ballot. The filing deadline is 24 April.

6 November 2018 General Election Results: Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Nonpartisan, Republican) 41.59%; former Congressman Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy (Nonpartisan, Democratic) 40.56%; state Senator Christopher Brian "Chris" McDaniel (Nonpartisan, Republican) 16.42%; Tobey Bernard Bartee (Nonpartisan, Democratic) 1.44%.

Since no candidate received a majority of the vote in the 6 November 2018 election, there will be a Tuesday 27 November 2018 non-partisan runoff between Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (Republican) 41.59% and former Congressman Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy (Democratic) 40.56%.

Total 907,588 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator Debra S. "Deb" Fischer
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
  Elected Republican 403,151 57.72% Senator Debra S. "Deb" Fischer
FEC S2NE00094; 26 Nov 18; Tot $4,483,605; Dsb $4,939,809
  Candidate Democratic 269,917 38.65% Lincoln City Councilmember Jane Michele Raybould
FEC S8NE00182; 26 Nov 18; Tot $2,105,373; Dsb $2,077,047
  Candidate Libertarian 25,349 3.63% Jim Schultz
FEC S8NE00240
Total 698,417 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator Dean Heller
First appointed: 3 May 2011 (re: resignation of Senator John Eric Ensign [Republican]); first elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
  Elected Democratic 490,071 50.41% Congressman Jacklyn S. "Jacky" Rosen
Congressman Congressional District 3

FEC S8NV00156; 26 Nov 18; Tot $26,107,879; Dsb $25,675,631
  Candidate Republican 441,202 45.38% Senator Dean Heller
FEC S2NV00183; 26 Nov 18; Tot $12,887,289; Dsb $14,023,962
  Candidate None of these candidates 15,303 1.57% None of these candidates
  Candidate No Political Party 9,269 0.95% Barry Michaels
FEC S8NV00214
  Candidate Libertarian 9,196 0.95% Timothy "Tim" Hagan
FEC S8NV00206
  Candidate Independent American 7,091 0.73% Kamau A. Bakari
FEC S8NV00230
Total 972,132 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Open
Republican Senator Robert P. "Bob" Corker, Jr.
First elected: 2006; re-elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Open Seat - 26 September 2017: "After much thought, consideration and family discussion ... I have decided that I will leave the United States Senate when my term expires ...."
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 1,227,483 54.71% Congressman Marsha Blackburn
CD 7.
4 October 2017: Running for the Class 1 Senate Seat in 2018.

FEC S8TN00337; 26 Nov 18; Tot $14,594,080; Dsb $16,302,928
  Candidate Democratic 985,450 43.92% former Governor Philip N. "Phil" Bredesen
FEC S8TN00386; 26 Nov 18; Tot $19,621,658; Dsb $19,136,023
  Candidate Independent 9,455 0.42% former Morgan County Commissioner Trudy A. Austin
FEC S8TN00428
  Candidate Independent 8,717 0.39% former Nashville Mayor Dean Hill
FEC S8TN00444
  Candidate Independent 5,084 0.23% Kris L. Todd
FEC S8TN00469
  Candidate Independent 3,398 0.15% John "Jae" Carico
FEC S8TN00436
  Candidate Independent; (Republican) 2,226 0.10% Robert Breton "Breton" Phillips
FEC S8TN00477; 19 Nov 18; Tot $5,549; Dsb $5,549
  Candidate Independent 1,927 0.09% Kevin Lee McCants
FEC S8TN00451
Total 2,243,740 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
  Elected Republican 4,260,553 50.89% Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz
FEC S2TX00312; 26 Nov 18; Tot $35,028,282; Dsb $38,973,173
  Candidate Democratic 4,045,632 48.33% Congressman Robert "Beto" O'Rourke
31 March 2017: Announced that he is running for the U.S. Senate Class I seat in 2018.

FEC S8TX00285; 26 Nov 18; Tot $80,319,754; Dsb $80,241,761
  Candidate Libertarian 65,470 0.78% Neal Monroe Dikeman
FEC S8TX00418; 31 Dec 18; Tot $33,732; Dsb $33,398
Total 8,371,655 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Open
Republican Senator Orrin G. Hatch
First elected: 1976; re-elected: 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Open Seat - 02 January 2018: "I've decided to retire at the end of this term...."
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 665,215 62.59% former Massachusetts Governor Willard "Mitt" Romney
FEC S8UT00176; 26 Nov 18; Tot $5,529,943; Dsb $5,176,436
  Candidate Democratic 328,541 30.91% Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson
FEC S8UT00143; 26 Nov 18; Tot $960,796; Dsb $942,636
  Candidate Constitution 28,774 2.71% Timothy Noel "Tim" Aalders
FEC S2UT00229; 26 Nov 18; Tot $106,499; Dsb $106,495
  Candidate Libertarian 27,607 2.60% Craig R. Bowden
FEC S8UT00127; 31 Mar 18; Tot $44,654; Dsb $43,055
  Candidate Independent American 12,708 1.20% Reed C. McCandless
FEC S8UT00275
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 29 0.00% Caleb Dan Reeve
FEC S8UT00325
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 17 0.00% Tyrone Jensen
FEC S8UT00309
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 3 0.00% Ryan Daniel Jackson
FEC S8UT00291
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 2 0.00% Hektor Madison Köppre Reiksthegn
FEC S8UT00333
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 1 0.00% Glade G. Fitzgerald
FEC S8UT00283
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 0 0.00% Cody Robert Judy
FEC S4UT00159
  Candidate Write-in; (Unaffiliated) 0 0.00% Abe Korb
FEC S8UT00317
Total 1,062,897 100.00%  

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

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator John A. Barrasso
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
Appointed: 22 June 2007 by Governor Dave Freudenthal; first elected in a special election: 4 November 2008; re-elected: 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
  Elected Republican 136,210 66.35% Senator John A. Barrasso
FEC S6WY00068; 26 Nov 18; Tot $5,651,626; Dsb $4,387,226
  Candidate Democratic 61,227 29.83% former Teton County School Trustee Gary Trauner
FEC S8WY00189; 07 Dec 18; Tot $910,723; Dsb $910,723
  Candidate Libertarian 5,658 2.76% Joseph "Joe" Porambo
FEC S4WY00154
  Candidate Scattering 1,801 0.88% Under Votes
  Candidate Scattering 325 0.16% Write-Ins
  Candidate Scattering 54 0.03% Over Votes
Total 205,275 100.00%  

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
  Minnesota Green Party
  Reform
Other Third Parties
  Conservative
  Economic Growth
  For The People
  Independence
  Independent American
  Legal Marijuana Now
  Liberty Union
  Make It Simple
  Natural Law
  New Day NJ
  Socialist Workers Party
  The Old Republic
  U.S. Taxpayers
  Women's Equality
  Working Families
Independents
  Independent
  No Party Affiliation
  No Political Party
  None
  Nonpartisan
  Other
  Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  None of these candidates
  Not readily classifiable
  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 2017 and end their terms on 3 January 2023. The next regular election for these seats is 8 November 2022.

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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