United States Senate elections, 1904 and 1905

← 1902 / 1903

February 4, 1904 –
January 27, 1905

1906 / 1907 →

30 of the 90 seats in the United States Senate
(as well as special elections)
46 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	William B. Allison	Arthur P. Gorman
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Iowa	Maryland
Seats before	57	33
Seats won	22	5
Seats after	56	31
Seat change	1	2
Seats up	23	7

Majority Party before election

Republican

Elected Majority Party

Republican

The United States Senate elections of 1904 and 1905 were elections that coincided with President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide election to a full term. Party share of seats remained roughly the same, when including vacancies and appointments, and the Republicans retained a significant majority over the Democrats.

As these elections were prior to ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, senators were chosen by State legislatures.

This was the last election cycle until 1996 which featured a presidential candidate who won re-election without securing coattails in the Senate in either of his presidential runs.

Senate Party Division, 59th Congress (1905–1907)

At the beginning of 1904.

In these elections, the winners were seated during 1904 or in 1905 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In this election, the winner was seated March 4, 1905.

In these elections, the winners were seated March 4, 1907 in the 60th Congress; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1905; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats.

In these elections, the winners were elected in 1905 after March 4; sorted by election date.

The 1905 election in New York was held on January 17, 1905, by the New York State Legislature. Republican Chauncey M. Depew had been elected to this seat in 1899, and his term would expire on March 3, 1905. At the State election in November 1904, large Republican majorities were elected for a two-year term (1905-1906) in the State Senate, and for the session of 1905 to the Assembly. The 128th State Legislature met from January 3, 1905, on at Albany, New York.

Late in 1904, Ex-Governor Frank S. Black tried to be nominated to succeed Depew. Black was supported by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., but after intense fighting behind the scenes, Odell finally dropped Black and accepted Depew's re-election which had been supported by his fellow Senator Thomas C. Platt and Speaker S. Frederick Nixon. The Republican caucus met on January 16. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew unanimously.

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