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The U.S. Senate election, 1958 was an election for the United States Senate which occurred in the middle of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. As is common in midterm elections, the party in the White House lost seats, but in this year it was on a huge scale, perhaps due to the Recession of 1958 which caused high unemployment. The Eisenhower Administration's position on right-to-work issues galvanized labor unions which supported Democrats. The launch of Sputnik may also have been a factor. The Democratic party took thirteen Republican seats, as well as winning both 1959 Senate elections in the new state of Alaska. Senate elections in 1959 in the new state of Hawaii were split between the two parties, yielding an aggregate gain of 16 seats for the Democrats and giving a party balance of 65-35.
Democrats gained three open seats in California, Indiana, and New Jersey, and defeated ten Republican incumbents:
West Virginia's delegation thus changed from two Republicans to two Democrats in the same election night.
Notable freshmen were future Democratic presidential contenders Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) and Ed Muskie (D-ME), as well as future Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), who served until his death in 2010, and is the longest-serving Senator in the history of the Senate.
Key: Bold states indicate separate article on that election. √ Bold candidates indicate winner.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Result | Other candidates |
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| Alaska Special: Class 2 |
None: New state | New seat Democratic gain, 83.8% – 15.0% - 1.2% |
√ Bob Bartlett (Democratic) R. E. Robertson (Republican) Keith Capper (write in) |
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| Alaska Special: Class 3 |
None: New state | New seat Democratic gain, 52.6% – 47.4% |
√ Ernest Gruening (Democratic) Mike Stepovich (Republican) |
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| Arizona | √ Barry Goldwater | Republican | Re-elected, 56.1% – 43.9% | Ernest W. McFarland (Democratic) |
| California | William F. Knowland | Republican | Retired Democratic gain, 57.0% – 42.9% |
√ Clair Engle (Democratic) Goodwin J. Knight (Republican) |
| Connecticut | William A. Purtell | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 57.3% – 42.4% - 0.3 |
√ Thomas J. Dodd (Democratic) Vivien Kellems (write-in) |
| Delaware | √ John J. Williams | Republican | Re-elected, 53.3% – 46.7% | Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic) |
| Florida | √ Spessard Holland | Democratic | Re-elected, 71.2% – 28.8% | Leland Hyzer (Republican) |
| Indiana | William E. Jenner | Republican | Retired Democratic gain, 56.5% – 42.4% - 1.1% |
√ Vance Hartke (Democratic) Harold W. Handley (Republican) John Stelle (Prohibition) |
| Maine | Frederick G. Payne | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 60.8% – 39.2% |
√ Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic) |
| Maryland | √ James Glenn Beall | Republican | Re-elected, 51.0% – 49.0% | Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. (Democratic) |
| Massachusetts | √ John F. Kennedy | Democratic | Re-elected, 73.2% – 26.2% | Vincent J. Celeste (Republican) |
| Michigan | Charles E. Potter | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 53.6% – 46.1% |
√ Philip A. Hart (Democratic) |
| Minnesota | Edward John Thye | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 52.9% – 46.6%% – 0.5% |
√ Eugene McCarthy (Democratic) William M. Curran (Socialist Workers) |
| Mississippi | √ John C. Stennis | Democratic | Re-elected, unopposed | |
| Missouri | √ Stuart Symington | Democratic | Re-elected, 66.5% – 33.6% | Hazel Palmer (Republican) |
| Montana | √ Mike Mansfield | Democratic | Re-elected, 76.2% – 23.8% | Lou W. Welch (Republican) |
| Nebraska | √ Roman L. Hruska | Republican | Re-elected, 55.6% – 44.4% | Frank B. Morrison (Democratic) |
| Nevada | George W. Malone | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 57.7% – 42.3% |
√ Howard W. Cannon (Democratic) |
| New Jersey | H. Alexander Smith | Republican | Retired Democratic gain, 51.4% – 46.9% |
√ Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (Democratic) Robert W. Kean (Republican) |
| New Mexico | √ Dennis Chavez | Democratic | Re-elected, 62.7% – 37.3% | Forrest S. Atchley (Republican) |
| New York | Irving M. Ives | Republican | Retired Republican hold, 50.8% – 48.4% |
√ Kenneth B. Keating (Republican) Frank S. Hogan (Democratic) |
| North Carolina Special: Class 2 |
√ Benjamin Everett Jordan | Democratic | Interim appoointee elected to finish term, 70.0% – 30.0% | Richard C. Clarke, Jr. (Republican) |
| North Dakota | √ William Langer | Republican | Re-elected, 57.2% – 41.5% | Raymond Vensdel (Democratic) |
| Ohio | John W. Bricker | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 52.5% – 47.5% |
√ Stephen M. Young (Democratic) |
| Pennsylvania | Edward Martin | Republican | Retired Republican hold, 51.2% – 48.4% |
√ Hugh Scott (Republican) George M. Leader (Democratic) |
| Rhode Island | √ John O. Pastore | Democratic | Re-elected, 64.5% – 35.5% | Bayard Ewing (Republican) |
| Tennessee | √ Albert Gore, Sr. | Democratic | Re-elected, 79.0% – 19.0% | Hobart F. Atkins (Republican) |
| Texas | √ Ralph Yarborough | Democratic | Re-elected, 74.6% – 23.6% | Roy Whittenburg (Republican) |
| Utah | Arthur V. Watkins | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 38.7% – 34.8% – 26.4% |
√ Frank E. Moss (Democratic) J. Bracken Lee (Independent) |
| Vermont | Ralph E. Flanders | Republican | Retired Republican hold, 52.2% – 47.8% |
√ Winston L. Prouty (Republican) Frederick J. Fayette (Democratic) |
| Virginia | √ Harry F. Byrd | Democratic | Re-elected, 69.3% – 26.3% | Louise Wensel (Independent) |
| Washington | √ Henry M. Jackson | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.3% – 31.4% | William B. Bantz (Republican) |
| West Virginia General: Class 1 |
Chapman Revercomb | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 59.2% – 40.8%% |
√ Robert C. Byrd (Democratic) |
| West Virginia Special: Class 2 |
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. | Republican | Interim appointee lost election to finish term Democratic gain, 59.3% – 40.7% |
√ Jennings Randolph (Democratic) |
| Wisconsin | √ William Proxmire | Democratic | Re-elected, 57.1% – 42.7% | Roland J. Steinle (Republican) |
| Wyoming | Frank A. Barrett | Republican | Lost re-election Democratic gain, 50.8% – 49.2% |
√ Gale McGee (Democratic) |
At the beginning of the next Congress, two seats were added, both Democratic, for the new state of Alaska. During that Congress, two more seats were added, one Democratic and one Republican, for the new state of Hawaii. The charts below only reflect the addition of the Alaska seats at the beginning of the next Congress.
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