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2020 U.S. Senate Elections: Results

35 Senate seats were decided on Tuesday, November 3, 2020: the 33 Class II seats and 2 special elections. 26 incumbents kept their seats, 9 new senators were elected, and 5 seats changed party.

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Seats on the ballot

35

33 Class II + 2 special

Held going in

23
12

23 Republican · 12 Democrat

New senators

9

26 incumbents re-elected

Seats that changed party

5

AL, AZ, CO, GA, GA

Special Elections

Every Seat on the 2020 Ballot

Incumbent is whoever held the seat on election day; the result is who was sworn in for it afterwards.

State Incumbent Party Seat Result
Alabama Doug Jones Since 2018 Democrat
Class II
Tommy Tuberville (Republican) Party change
Alaska Dan Sullivan Since 2015 · age 55 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Arizona Martha McSally Since 2019 Republican
Class III Special Appointed
Mark Kelly (Democrat) Party change
Arkansas Tom Cotton Since 2015 · age 43 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Colorado Cory Gardner Since 2015 Republican
Class II
John Hickenlooper (Democrat) Party change
Delaware Chris Coons Since 2010 · age 57 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Georgia David Perdue, Jr. Since 2015 Republican
Class II
Jon Ossoff (Democrat) Party change
Georgia Kelly Loeffler Since 2020 Republican
Class III Special Appointed
Raphael Warnock (Democrat) Party change
Idaho Jim Risch Since 2009 · age 77 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Illinois Dick Durbin Since 1997 · age 75 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Iowa Joni Ernst Since 2015 · age 50 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Kansas Pat Roberts Since 1997 Republican
Class II
Roger Marshall (Republican)
Kentucky Mitch McConnell Since 1985 · age 78 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Louisiana Bill Cassidy Since 2015 · age 63 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Maine Susan Collins Since 1997 · age 67 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Massachusetts Ed Markey Since 2013 · age 74 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Michigan Gary Peters Since 2015 · age 61 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Minnesota Tina Smith Since 2018 · age 62 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Mississippi Cindy Hyde-Smith Since 2018 · age 61 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Montana Steve Daines Since 2015 · age 58 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Nebraska Ben Sasse Since 2015 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen Since 2009 · age 73 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
New Jersey Cory Booker Since 2013 · age 51 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
New Mexico Tom Udall Since 2009 Democrat
Class II
Ben Luján (Democrat)
North Carolina Thom Tillis Since 2015 · age 60 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Oklahoma James Inhofe Since 1994 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Oregon Jeff Merkley Since 2009 · age 64 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
Rhode Island Jack Reed Since 1997 · age 70 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
South Carolina Lindsey Graham Since 2003 · age 65 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
South Dakota Mike Rounds Since 2015 · age 66 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Tennessee Lamar Alexander Since 2003 Republican
Class II
Bill Hagerty (Republican)
Texas John Cornyn Since 2002 · age 68 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Virginia Mark Warner Since 2009 · age 65 Democrat
Class II
Re-elected
West Virginia Shelley Capito Since 2015 · age 66 Republican
Class II
Re-elected
Wyoming Michael Enzi Since 1997 Republican
Class II
Cynthia Lummis (Republican)

New Senators Elected in 2020

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Seats, incumbents and results are derived from the Senate's service records (via the congress-legislators dataset): the seats on a year's ballot are the class whose terms end the following January, plus any seat held by appointment pending a special election, and a result is recorded when the winner is sworn in. Incumbent status and candidates for the next election come from FEC candidate filings; a seat is listed as open when the FEC tags its candidates as running for a seat with no incumbent. Election day is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. See every cycle since 1990, the seniority list and the voting analysis.