Home ❯ Political Party Breakdown ❯ 101st Congress, 1989-1991
Boldface (with superscript C) numbers indicate the majority Party in each house. Red (with superscript P) numbers (boldface or not) indicate the Party of the President in any event.
| President | Party | Congress | United States Senate | House of Representatives |
| | Democrat | Republican | other | vacancies | Democrat | Republican | other |
| Bush, G.H.W. | Republican | 101st 1989-1991 | 55C | 45P | | | 260C | 175P | |
101ST CONGRESS- UNITED STATES SENATE
General Election of 8 November 1988 elected 33 Class 1 Senate seats
[term: noon, 3 January 1989 to noon, 3 January 1995]
- 23 incumbent Senators re-elected:
- 14 Democrats: DeConcini[AZ]; Matsunaga[HI]; Mitchell[ME]; Sarbanes[MD]; Kennedy[MA]; Riegle[MI]; Lautenberg[NJ]; Bingaman[NM]; Moynihan[NY]; Burdick[ND]; Metzenbaum[OH]; Sasser[TN]; Bentsen[TX]; Byrd[WV].
- 9 Republicans: Wilson[CA]; Roth[DE]; Lugar[IN]; Durenberger[MN]; Danforth[MO]; Heinz[PA]; Chafee[RI]; Hatch[UT]; Wallop[WY].
- 1 Senator returning after an absence from the Senate:
- Slade Gorton, Republican of WASHINGTON
- 9 freshman Senators elected:
- 5 Democrats: Joseph Lieberman[CONNECTICUT]; Robert Kerrey[NEBRASKA]; Richard Bryan[NEVADA]; Charles Robb[VIRGINIA]; Herbert Kohl[WISCONSIN].
- 4 Republicans: Connie Mack[FLORIDA]; Trent Lott[MISSISSIPPI]; Conrad Burns[MONTANA]; James Jeffords[VERMONT].
101ST CONGRESS- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
| TOTAL Membership: |
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| STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN |
| STATE |
Democrat |
Republican |
OTHER |
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| ALABAMA |
5 |
2 |
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| ALASKA |
-- |
1 |
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| ARIZONA |
1 |
4 |
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| ARKANSAS |
3 |
1 |
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| CALIFORNIA |
27 |
18 |
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| COLORADO |
3 |
3 |
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| CONNECTICUT |
3 |
3 |
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| DELAWARE |
1 |
-- |
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| FLORIDA |
10 |
9 |
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| GEORGIA |
9 |
1 |
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| HAWAII |
1 |
1 |
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| IDAHO |
1 |
1 |
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Modified .
