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The U.S. Senate election, 1986 was an election for the United States Senate in the middle of Ronald Reagan's second presidential term. As in most midterm elections, the opposition Democratic Party held the usual advantage. In this election, 34 seats in the Senate were up for election in 34 of the 50 states, corresponding to the Constitutional rule that about one-third of the Senators must be elected every two year to fill their six-year terms. Also, the Republicans had to defend an unusually large number of freshman Senate incumbents who had been elected on Reagan's coattails in 1980.
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Parties | Last election: 1984 |
Before this election |
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Up | Incumbent retired | Incumbent ran | Summary | Popular Vote | Result | |||||||||
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Total Won |
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Change | Elected | Votes | Share | |||||||
Democratic | 47 | 47 | 35 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 20 | 24,347,369 | 50.1% | 55 | |
Republican | 53 | 53 | 31 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 23,126,219 | 47.6% | 45 | |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 1,137,417 | 2.3% | 0 | ||
Total | 100 | 100 | 66 | 34 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 10 | 34 | 48,611,005 | 100% | 100 |
In this Senate election, the Democrats gained a net of eight seats, and recaptured control of the Senate from the Republicans with a 55 - 45 majority. Robert Dole (R-Kansas) and Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia) exchanged positions as the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader.
This was the last election — up through the present — in which the Democrats in this Class of Senators (1/3 of the Senate) amassed a gain in seats (not including special elections held in off-years in some states to fill the seats that had been vacated by Senators due to death, resignation, or otherwise).
The only win by the Republican Party was for one "open seat" in Missouri. On the other hand, the Democratic Party won the "open seats" in Maryland and Nevada, and the Democrats also defeated seven incumbent Republican Senators, six of them who were first-term senators who had been elected in 1980.
During 1987, Edward Zorinsky (D-Nebraska) had died and had been replaced by David K. Karnes (R-Nebraska). This result has not been included in these summaries and totals.
A bolded state name indicates an article about that state's election.
State | Incumbent | Party | Result | Other candidates |
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Alabama | Jeremiah Denton | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 49.1% Democratic gain |
Richard Shelby (Democratic) 50.9% |
Alaska | Frank Murkowski | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 54.0% | Glenn Olds (Democratic) 44.1% Chuck House (Libertarian) 1.7% |
Arizona | Barry Goldwater | Republican | Incumbent retired Republican hold |
John McCain (Republican) 60.6% Richard Kimball (Democratic) 39.4% |
Arkansas | Dale Bumpers | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 62.9% | Asa Hutchinson (Republican) 37.1% |
California | Alan Cranston | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 49.3% | Ed Zschau (Republican) 47.8% Breck McKinley (Libertarian) 1.5% Edward B. "Ed" Vallen (American Ind.) 0.9% Andrew R. "Paul" Kangas (Peace & Freedom) 0.5% |
Colorado | Gary Hart | Democratic | Incumbent retired Democratic hold |
Tim Wirth (Democratic) 49.9% Ken Kramer (Republican) 48.4% Michael Bush (Independent) 1.0% Michael Chamberlain (Socialist Workers) 0.4% Henry Olshaw (Unaffiliated American) 0.2% Calvin Dodge (Prohibition) 0.1% |
Connecticut | Chris Dodd | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 64.8% | Roger W. Eddy (Republican) 34.8% Edward McCallum (Independent) 0.4% |
Florida | Paula Hawkins | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 45% Democratic gain |
Bob Graham (Democratic) 55% |
Georgia | Mack Mattingly | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 49.1% Democratic gain |
Wyche Fowler (Democratic) 50.9% |
Hawaii | Daniel Inouye | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 73.6% | Frank Hutchinson (Republican) 26.4% |
Idaho | Steve Symms | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 51.4% | John V. Evans (Democratic) 48.6% |
Illinois | Alan J. Dixon | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 65.4% | Judy Koehler (Republican) 34.1% |
Indiana | Dan Quayle | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 61.1% | Jill L. Long (Democratic) 38.9% |
Iowa | Chuck Grassley | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 66.0% | John P. Roehrick (Democratic) 34.0% |
Kansas | Bob Dole | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 70.1% | Guy MacDonald (Democratic) 29.9% |
Kentucky | Wendell H. Ford | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 74.3% | Jackson M. Andrews (Republican) 25.7% |
Louisiana | Russell B. Long | Democratic | Incumbent retired Democratic hold |
John Breaux (Democratic) 52.8% Henson Moore (Republican) 47.2% |
Maryland | Charles Mathias, Jr. | Republican | Incumbent retired Democratic gain |
Barbara Mikulski (Democratic) 60.8% Linda Chavez (Republican) 39.2% |
Missouri | Thomas Eagleton | Democratic | Incumbent retired Republican gain |
Kit Bond (Republican) 52.6% Harriett Woods (Democratic) 47.4% |
Nevada | Paul Laxalt | Republican | Incumbent retired Democratic gain |
Harry Reid (Democratic) 50.0% James David Santini (Republican) 44.5% Kent Cromwell (Libertarian) 1.9% |
New Hampshire | Warren Rudman | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 62.9% | Endicott Peabody (Democratic) 32.4% Gruce Valley (Independent) 4.7% |
New York | Al D'Amato | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 57.7% | Mark J. Green (Democratic) 40.9% John S. Dyson (Liberal) 1.4% Fred Newman (New Alliance) 0.3% Michael Shur (Socialist Workers) 0.2% |
North Carolina (Special) |
Jim Broyhill | Republican | Interim appointee lost election to finish term, 49.1% Democratic gain |
Terry Sanford (Democratic) 50.9% |
North Carolina (General) |
Interim appointee lost election to the next term, 48.2% Democratic gain |
Terry Sanford (Democratic) 51.8 | ||
North Dakota | Mark Andrews | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 49.0% Democratic gain |
Kent Conrad (Democratic) 49.8% |
Ohio | John Glenn | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 62.4% | Thomas N. Kindress (Republican) 37.6% |
Oklahoma | Don Nickles | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 54.5% | James Robert Jones (Democratic) 45.5% |
Oregon | Bob Packwood | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 63.5% | Rick Bauman (Democratic) 36.5% |
Pennsylvania | Arlen Specter | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 56.9% | Robert W. Edgar (Democratic) 43.1% |
South Carolina | Ernest Hollings | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 63.9% | Henry D. McMaster (Republican) 36.1% |
South Dakota | James Abdnor | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 48.3% Democratic gain |
Tom Daschle (Democratic) 51.7% |
Utah | Jake Garn | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 72.3% | Craig Oliver (Democratic) 26.6% Hugh A. Butler (Libertarian) 0.7% Mary Zins (Independent) 0.4% |
Vermont | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | Incumbent re-elected, 63.7% | Richard A. Snelling (Republican) 34.7% |
Washington | Slade Gorton | Republican | Incumbent lost re-election, 48.7% Democratic gain |
Brock Adams (Democratic) 50.6% Jill Fein (Socialist Workers) 0.7% |
Wisconsin | Bob Kasten | Republican | Incumbent re-elected, 51.8% | Ed Garvey (Democratic) 48.2% |
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