United States Senate elections, 2014

2012 ←

November 4, 2014

→ 2016

33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate and 3 mid-term special elections 51 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Mitch McConnell	Harry Reid
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader since	January 3, 2007	January 3, 2005
Leader's seat	Kentucky	Nevada
Seats before	45	53
Seats won	24	12
Seats after	54	44
Seat change	9	9
Popular vote	24,631,488	20,875,493
Percentage	51.7%	43.8%
Swing	9.6%	9.9%
Seats up	15	21

	Third party

Party	Independent
Seats before	2
Seats won	0
Seats after	2
Seat change
Seats up	0

Democratic hold Republican hold Republican gain
Line through state means both Senate seats were up for election.

Majority Leader before election

Harry Reid
Democratic

Elected Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell
Republican

Harry Reid
Democratic

Mitch McConnell
Republican

Elections to the United States Senate were a part of the elections held in the United States on November 4, 2014 (and in some areas for a period of time ending November 4, 2014). 33 Class 2 seats in the 100-member United States Senate were up for election, in addition to three Class 3 seats due to expire on January 3, 2017. The candidates winning the regular elections will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2015 to January 3, 2021. The elections marked 100 years of direct elections of U.S. Senators. Twenty-one of the open seats were held by the Democratic Party, while fifteen were held by the Republican Party.

The Republicans regained the majority of the Senate in the 114th Congress, which started in January 2015; the Republicans had not controlled the Senate since January 2007. They had needed a net gain of at least six seats to obtain a majority. They successfully held all of their seats, and gained nine Democratic-held seats. Five incumbent Democratic senators were unseated: Mark Begich of Alaska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Polls and other factors had led forecasters to predict that the Republicans would win several seats, with most predicting that the party was likely but not certain to win at least the six seats necessary to take control of the Senate.

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