United States Senate elections, 1872 and 1873

United States Senate elections, 1872

November 1872

? seats in the United States Senate

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Party	Republican	Democratic	Liberal Republican
Last election	56 seats	17 seats	1 seat
Seats won	47	19	7
Seat change	9	2	6

Majority Party before election

Republican Party

Elected Majority Party

Republican Party

The United States Senate election of 1872 was an election which had the Republican Party, while still retaining a commanding majority, lose nine seats in the United States Senate, mostly as defections to the Liberal Republican Party. It also coincided with President Ulysses S. Grant's easy re-election.

As this election was prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.

Results

Senate Party Division, 43rd Congress (1873–1875)

Majority Party: Republican (47)
Minority Party: Democratic (19)
Other Parties: Liberal Republican (7)
Vacant: (1)
Total Seats: 74

Change in Senate composition

Before the elections
			D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
V	V	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	R	R	R	R	R	R
			R	R	R	R	R	R	R

In the next Congress
			D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	V	V	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	R	R	R	R
			R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Key:
D	= Democratic
R	= Republican
r	= Independent Republican
V	= Vacant
	= Majority divider

Race summaries

Special elections during the 42nd Congress

In these elections, the winners were seated during 1872 or in 1873 before March 4; ordered by election date.

State	Incumbent			Results	Candidates
State	Senator	Party	Electoral history	Results	Candidates
Kentucky (Class 3)	Willis B. Machen	Democratic	1872 (Appointed)	Interim appointee elected January 21, 1873 to finish the term.	√ Willis B. Machen (Democratic) [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]

References

Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present, via Senate.gov

United States Senate elections

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