United States Senate elections, 1934

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November 6, 1934

1936 →

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

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Joseph Robinson	Charles McNary
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	Arkansas	Oregon
Last election	59 seats	36 seats
Seats before	60	35
Seats won	69	25
Seat change	9	10

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Farmer–Labor	Progressive
Last election	1 seat	0 seats
Seats before	1	0
Seats won	1	1
Seat change		1

Republican hold

Democratic holds

Democratic gain

Farmer–Labor hold

Progressive gain

Majority Leader before election

Joseph Robinson
Democratic

Elected Majority Leader

Joseph Robinson
Democratic

The United States Senate elections of 1934 occurred in the middle of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term. In the middle of the Great Depression, voters strongly backed Roosevelt's New Deal and his allies in the Senate. The Democrats picked up a net of nine seats, giving them a supermajority (which required 64 seats, two-thirds of the total 96 seats in 1934). This marked the first time since the Civil War where an incumbent president's party gained Senate seats during a midterm election, later being followed by John F. Kennedy in 1962, Richard Nixon in 1970, and George W. Bush in 2002.

The Democrats took nine Republican seats, including an open seat in Maryland and the seats of eight incumbents.

In these special elections, the winners were seated during 1934 or before January 3, 1935; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1935; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats.

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