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.
Seats on the ballot
35
33 Class II + 2 special
Held going in
23 Republican · 12 Democrat
New senators
9
26 incumbents re-elected
Seats that changed party
5
AL, AZ, CO, GA, GA
Special Elections
- Arizona (Class III seat): Martha McSally (Republican) was appointed on January 3, 2019 and held the seat going into the special election on November 3, 2020. Won by Mark Kelly (Democrat), whose term for the seat ran through January 3, 2023.
- Georgia (Class III seat): Kelly Loeffler (Republican) was appointed on January 6, 2020 and held the seat going into the special election on November 3, 2020. Won by Raphael Warnock (Democrat), whose term for the seat ran through January 3, 2023.
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 ↕ | Since ↕ | Age on Election Day ↕ | Result ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2018 | Tommy Tuberville (Republican) Party change | |
| Alaska |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 55 | Re-elected |
| Arizona |
|
Republican |
Class III
Special Appointed
|
2019 | Mark Kelly (Democrat) Party change | |
| Arkansas |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 43 | Re-elected |
| Colorado |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | John Hickenlooper (Democrat) Party change | |
| Delaware |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2010 | 57 | Re-elected |
| Georgia |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | Jon Ossoff (Democrat) Party change | |
| Georgia |
|
Republican |
Class III
Special Appointed
|
2020 | Raphael Warnock (Democrat) Party change | |
| Idaho |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2009 | 77 | Re-elected |
| Illinois |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
1997 | 75 | Re-elected |
| Iowa |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 50 | Re-elected |
| Kansas |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
1997 | Roger Marshall (Republican) | |
| Kentucky |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
1985 | 78 | Re-elected |
| Louisiana |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 63 | Re-elected |
| Maine |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
1997 | 67 | Re-elected |
| Massachusetts |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2013 | 74 | Re-elected |
| Michigan |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2015 | 61 | Re-elected |
| Minnesota |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2018 | 62 | Re-elected |
| Mississippi |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2018 | 61 | Re-elected |
| Montana |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 58 | Re-elected |
| Nebraska |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | Re-elected | |
| New Hampshire |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2009 | 73 | Re-elected |
| New Jersey |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2013 | 51 | Re-elected |
| New Mexico |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2009 | Ben Luján (Democrat) | |
| North Carolina |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 60 | Re-elected |
| Oklahoma |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
1994 | Re-elected | |
| Oregon |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2009 | 64 | Re-elected |
| Rhode Island |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
1997 | 70 | Re-elected |
| South Carolina |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2003 | 65 | Re-elected |
| South Dakota |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 66 | Re-elected |
| Tennessee |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2003 | Bill Hagerty (Republican) | |
| Texas |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2002 | 68 | Re-elected |
| Virginia |
|
Democrat |
Class II
|
2009 | 65 | Re-elected |
| West Virginia |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
2015 | 66 | Re-elected |
| Wyoming |
|
Republican |
Class II
|
1997 | Cynthia Lummis (Republican) |
New Senators Elected in 2020
Tommy Tuberville
Republican · Alabama
Succeeded Doug Jones (Democrat)
Mark Kelly
Democrat · Arizona
Succeeded Martha McSally (Republican) · special election
John Hickenlooper
Democrat · Colorado
Succeeded Cory Gardner (Republican)
Jon Ossoff
Democrat · Georgia
Succeeded David Perdue, Jr. (Republican)
Raphael Warnock
Democrat · Georgia
Succeeded Kelly Loeffler (Republican) · special election
Roger Marshall
Republican · Kansas
Succeeded Pat Roberts
Ben Luján
Democrat · New Mexico
Succeeded Tom Udall
Bill Hagerty
Republican · Tennessee
Succeeded Lamar Alexander
Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming
Succeeded Michael Enzi
About this page
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.