United States Senate Elections, 2008 - Results Summary

Results Summary

Summary of the November 4, 2008 United States Senate election results

Parties Total
Democratic Republican Independent Libertarian Independence Green Others
Last election (2006) 49 49 2ID — — — — 100
Before this election 49 49 2ID — — — — 100
End of this Congress (two months later) 48 49 2ID — — — — 99
Not Up 37 26 2ID — — — — 65
Up 12 23 — — — — — 35
Incumbent retired — 5 — — — — — 5
— 2 — — — — — 2
3 Republicans replaced by
3 Democrats
— — — — — 3
3 2 — — — — — 5
Incumbent ran 12 16+2A — — — — — 30
12 11+2A — — — — — 25
5 Republicans replaced by
5 Democrats
— — — — — 5
— — — — — — — 0
— — — — — — — 0
— — — — — — —
17 11+2A — — — — — 30
Total held 12 15 — — — — — 27
Total not held / gained 8 8 — — — — — 8
Total elected 20 15 — — — — — 35
Result 57 41 2ID — — — — 100
Popular vote Votes 33,650,061 28,863,067 176,752 798,154 450,702 427,427 496,124 64,862,287
Share 51.88% 44.50% 0.27% 1.23% 0.69% 0.66% 0.76% 100%

A Includes two appointees who won special elections to a full term.

ID The two Independents joined with the Democrats to make a majority caucus.

Sources:

  • U.S. Senate 2008 results, via CNN.com
  • U.S. Senate Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts by Party, via TheGreenPapers.com
  • "U.S. Senate". CNN. November 6, 2008. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/main.results/#val=S. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
  • "The Green Papers 2008 U.S. Senate Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts by Party". The Green Papers. http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/SenateVoteByParty.phtml. Retrieved November 19, 2008.

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