United States Senate elections, 1840 and 1841

Various dates

18 of the 52 seats in the United States Senate (with special elections)
27 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Whig	Democratic
Last election	20 seats	28 seats
Seats before	21	29
Seats won	11	6
Seats after	27	22
Seat change	6	7
Seats up	5	13

Majority Party before election

Democratic

Elected Majority Party

Whig

Democratic

Whig

The United States Senate elections of 1840 and 1841 were elections which, corresponding with their Party's success in the 1840 presidential election, had the Whig Party take control of the United States Senate.

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

Senate Party Division, 27th Congress (1841–1843)

After the November 25, 1840 special elections in North Carolina.

In these elections, the winners were elected during 1840 or in 1841 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winner was elected for the term beginning March 4, 1841; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 2 seats.

In this special election, the winner was elected in 1841 after March 4; ordered by election date.

Whig Isaac C. Bates was elected January 13, 1841 to finish the class 2 term of his Whig predecessor, John Davis, who had resigned to become Governor of Massachusetts. Bates was also elected, on the same day, to the next term. He would only serve, however, until he died March 16, 1845.

Whig Rufus Choate was elected February 23, 1841, to finish the class 1 term of his Whig predecessor, Daniel Webster, who had resigned to become U.S. Secretary of State.

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge had been elected as a Jacksonian Democrat in 1833 to this seat, and his term expired March 3, 1839. An election was held February 5, 1839. Although Tallmadge received the most votes, no candidate received a majority and the seat was declared vacant due to the legislature's failure to elect.

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