United States Senate elections, 1908 and 1909

← 1906 / 1907

January 15, 1908 –
March 4, 1909

1910 / 1911 →

31 of the 92 seats in the United States Senate
(as well as special elections)
47 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Eugene Hale	Charles Culberson
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Maine	Texas
Seats before	61	31
Seats won	16	13
Seats after	59	31
Seat change	2
Seats up	18	13

Majority Party before election

Republican

Elected Majority Party

Republican

The United States Senate elections of 1908 and 1909, some states elected their Senators directly even before passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913. Oregon pioneered direct election and experimented with different measures over several years until it succeeded in 1907. Soon after, Nebraska followed suit and laid the foundation for other states to adopt measures reflecting the people's will. By 1912, as many as 29 states elected senators either as nominees of their party's primary or in conjunction with a general election. The Republicans lost two seats overall.

Senate Party Division, 61st Congress (1909–1911)

After the January 21, 1908 special election in Rhode Island.

In this election, the winner was seated during in 1908 before March 4; ordered by state.

In this election, the winner was elected two years early, to be seated in the 62nd Congress starting March 4, 1911.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1909; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 3 seats.

In these elections, the winners were elected in 1909 after March 4; ordered by date.

The New York election was held on January 19, 1909, by the New York State Legislature. Republican Thomas C. Platt had been re-elected to this seat in 1903, and his term would expire on March 3, 1909. At the State election in November 1908, 35 Republicans and 16 Democrats were elected for a two-year term (1909-1910) in the State Senate; and 99 Republicans and 51 Democrats were elected for the session of 1909 to the Assembly. The 132nd New York State Legislature met from January 5 to April 30 1909, at Albany, New York.

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