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United States Senate elections, 1810 and 1811

United States Senate elections, 1810 and 1811
United States
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11 of the 34 seats in the United States Senate (plus special elections)
18 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Last election 27 seats 7 seats
Seats before 26 8
Seats won 10 1
Seats after 27 7
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1
Seats up 9 2

Majority party before election

Democratic-Republican

Elected Majority party

Democratic-Republican


Democratic-Republican

Democratic-Republican

The United States Senate elections of 1810 and 1811 were elections that had the majority Democratic-Republican Party gain one seat in the United States Senate. The minority Federalists had gone into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats (7 out of 34, or 20.6%) that they had won all of the elections, they would still not have controlled a majority.

As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.

Composition after June 1810 special election in New Hampshire.

Bold states link to specific election articles.

In these special elections, the winners were seated during 1810 or before March 4, 1811; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winner was seated on March 4, 1811 (except where noted due to late election); ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 2 seats.

In these special elections, the winners were seated in 1811 after March 4; ordered by election date.


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