United States Senate elections, 1914 and 1915

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November 3, 1914
(except 1915 in Arkansas)

1916 →

34 of the 96 seats in the United States Senate
49 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	John W. Kern (Conference Chairman)	Jacob H. Gallinger (Conference Chairman)
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	Indiana	New Hampshire
Seats before	50	44
Seats won	19	15
Seats after	53	41
Seat change	3	3
Seats up	16	18

	Third party

Party	Progressive
Seats before	1
Seats won	0
Seats after	1
Seat change
Seats up	0

Results including special elections
Democratic gains Republican gains
Democratic holds Republican holds

Majority conference chairman before election

John W. Kern
Democratic

Elected Majority conference chairman

John W. Kern
Democratic

The United States Senate elections of 1914 and 1915, with the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, this was the first time that all seats up for election were popularly elected instead of chosen by their state legislatures. These elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's first term.

Three seats held by Republicans were won by Democrats:

One incumbent senator, not up for re-election, later changed from Progressive to Republican.

At the beginning of 1914.

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In these special elections, the winners were seated during 1914 or in 1915 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1915; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 3 seats.

There were no elections during the next Congress during 1915.

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