United States Senate elections, 1898

United States Senate elections, 1898 and 1899

← 1896 / 1897 Dates vary by state 1900 / 1901 →
30 of the 90 seats in the U.S. Senate (as well as special elections) 46 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 44 34 Seats won 17 6 Seats after 50 25 Seat change 6 9 Seats up 11 15   Third party Fourth party Fifth party   Party Populist Silver Republican Silver Seats before 5 5 2 Seats won 0 1 0 Seats after 4 3 2 Seat change 1 2 Seats up 1 3 0
Majority Party before election Republican Elected Majority Party Republican

Republican

Republican

The United States Senate elections of 1898 and 1899 were landslide elections which had the Republican Party gain six seats in the United States Senate.

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

Senate Party Division, 56th Congress (1899–1901)

After the October 7, 1898 special election in Oregon.

In these elections, the winners were seated during 1898 or in 1899 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1899; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats.

In these elections, the winners were elected in 1899 after March 4, and seated in the 56th Congress.

In this election, the winner was seated in the 57th Congress, starting March 4, 1901.

The election in New York was held January 17, 1899.

Democrat Edward Murphy Jr. had been elected to this seat in 1893, and his term would expire on March 3, 1899. At the State election in November 1898, 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1899-1900) in the State Senate; and 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats were elected for the session of 1899 to the Assembly. The 122nd New York State Legislature met from January 4 to April 28, 1899, at Albany, New York.

The Republican caucus met on January 12. State Senator Hobart Krum presided. They nominated Chauncey M. Depew unanimously. Depew had been Secretary of State of New York from 1864 to 1865, and was the frontrunning candidate to succeed Thomas C. Platt at the U.S. Senate special election in 1881 when he withdrew after the 41st ballot. Parallel to his political career, he moved up the ladder in the Vanderbilt Railroad System, being President of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad from 1885 to 1898, and holding positions in dozens of other railroad companies.

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