United States Senate elections, 1982 and 1983

United States Senate elections, 1982 and 1983

← 1980

November 2, 1982
(and a special election in 1983)

1984 →

33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate
51 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Howard Baker	Robert Byrd
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Tennessee	West Virginia
Seats before	54	45
Seats after	54	46
Seat change		1
Popular vote	22,412,928	27,899,651
Percentage	43.4%	54.1%
Swing	1.3%	2.5%
Seats up	13	19
Races won	13	20

	Third party

Party	Independent
Seats before	1
Seats after	0
Seat change	1
Seats up	1
Races won	0

1982 Senate election map.svg

Results of November 1982 elections
Democratic gain Democratic hold
Republican gain Republican hold

Majority Leader before election

Howard Baker
Republican

Elected Majority Leader

Howard Baker
Republican

United States Senate election in Arizona, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Dennis DeConcini	Pete Dunn
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	411,970	291,749
Percentage	56.9%	40.3%

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U.S. Senate election results map.
Blue denotes counties won by DeConcini.
Red denotes those won by Dunn.

U.S. Senator before election

Dennis DeConcini
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Dennis DeConcini
Democratic

United States Senate election in California, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Pete Wilson	Jerry Brown
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	4,022,565	3,494,968
Percentage	51.4%	44.8%

U.S. Senator before election

S. I. Hayakawa
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Pete Wilson
Republican

United States Senate election in Connecticut, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Lowell Weicker	Toby Moffett
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	545,987	499,146
Percentage	50.4%	46.1%

U.S. Senator before election

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Republican

United States Senate election in Delaware, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Bill V. Roth	David N. Levinson
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	105,357	84,413
Percentage	55.2%	44.2%

U.S. Senator before election

Bill V. Roth
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Bill V. Roth
Republican

United States Senate election in Florida, 1982

← 1976

November 8, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Lawton Chiles	Van B. Poole
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	1,637,667	1,015,330
Percentage	61.7%	38.3%

U.S. Senator before election

Lawton Chiles
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Lawton Chiles
Democratic

United States Senate election in Hawaii, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Spark Matsunaga	Clarence Brown
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	245,386	52,071
Percentage	80.1%	17.0%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Spark Matsunaga
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Spark Matsunaga
Democratic

United States Senate election in Indiana, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Richard Lugar	Floyd Fithian
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	978,301	828,400
Percentage	53.83	45.58

U.S. Senator before election

Richard Lugar
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Richard Lugar
Republican

United States Senate election in Maryland, 1988

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Paul Sarbanes	Lawrence Hogan
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	707,356	407,334
Percentage	63.46%	36.54%

U.S. Senator before election

Paul Sarbanes
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Paul Sarbanes
Democratic

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1982

← 1976

November 2, 1982

1988 →


Nominee	Ted Kennedy	Ray Shamie
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	1,247,084	784,602
Percentage	60.8%	38.3%

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Results by town. Red indicates towns carried by Ray Shamie, blue indicates towns carried by Ted Kennedy.

U.S. Senator before election

Ted Kennedy
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Ted Kennedy
Democratic

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