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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