United States Senate elections, 1894

1892 ←

November 1894

→ 1896

? seats in the United States Senate

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Republican	Democratic
Last election	40 seats	44 seats
Seats won	44	40
Seat change	+4	-4

Majority Party before election

Democratic Party

Elected Majority Party

Republican Party

The U.S. Senate election, 1894 was a slight Republican victory. It was in this election that future presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan failed to win a Senate seat in Nebraska.

Results

Plurality: Republican: 42
Minority: Democrats: 39
Other parties: Populist: 4, Silver: 2
Total: 88
Vacant: 1, due to failure to elect. Later filled by a Democrat

Change in Senate composition

Before the elections
D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
P	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
P
P	P	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R

In the next Congress
D	D	D	V
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
P	P	P	P	D	D	D	D	D	D
S
S	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
R	R	R	R

Key:

D	= Democratic
P	= Populist
R	= Republican
S	= Silver
V	= Vacant

Majority

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