United States Senate elections, 1884 and 1885

Dates vary by state

27 of the 76 seats in the U.S. Senate
(as well as special elections)
39 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Seats before	38	36
Seats won	10	12
Seats after	37	34
Seat change	1	2
Seats up	11	14

	Third party

Party	Readjuster
Seats before	2
Seats won	0
Seats after	2
Seat change
Seats up	0

Majority Party before election

Republican

Elected Majority Party

Republican

The United States Senate elections of 1884 and 1885 were elections that coincided with the presidential election of 1884. Both Republicans and Democrats lost seat in the United States Senate due to the failure of three state legislatures to finish elections in time. Republicans, nevertheless, retained majority control and the Readjusters joined their caucus. By the beginning of the first session, in December 1885, Republicans had won all three vacant seats, increasing their majority.

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

Senate Party Division, 49th Congress (1885–1887)

In this election, the winner was seated during in 1885 before March 4.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1891; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 3 seats.

In these elections, the winners were elected in 1885 after March 4, sorted by election date.

The New York election was held January 20, 1885, by the New York State Legislature.

Republican Elbridge G. Lapham had been elected to this seat in a special election in 1881 to succeed Roscoe Conkling who had resigned. Lapham's term would expire on March 3, 1885.

At the State election in November 1883, 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1884-1885) in the State Senate. At the State election in November 1884, 73 Republicans and 55 Democrats were elected for the session of 1885 to the Assembly. The 108th New York State Legislature met from January 6 to May 22, 1885, at Albany, New York.

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