United States Senate elections, 1890

United States Senate elections, 1890

1890
88 seats in the United States Senate 45 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party Republican Democratic Populist Last election 51 seats 37 seats 0 Seats Seats won 47 39 2 Seat change 4 2 2
Majority Party before election Democratic Elected Majority Party Republican

The United States Senate election of 1890 was an election in which the Republican Party lost two seats in the United States Senate, though still retaining a commanding majority.

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

Results

52nd Congress (1891–1893)

• Majority Party: Republican (47)
• Minority Party: Democratic (39)
• Other Parties: Populist (2)
• Total Seats: 88

Change in Senate composition

Senate composition in the 51st Congress  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   R   R   R   R   R   R   R   D   D   D   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	Senate composition in the 52nd Congress  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   R   R   R   P   P   D   D   D   D   D   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    P  =Populist    R  =Republican

List of races

Idaho

In July 1890, Idaho became a state. In November, Fred Dubois helped engineer a plan for the Idaho Legislature to effectively elect three people to the U.S. Senate: Governor George Shoup to the Class 2 seat up for election in 1894, state constitutional convention member William J. McConnell to serve for the remainder of the Fifty-first United States Congress, ending in March 1891, and Dubois himself to succeed McConnell and serve a full six-year term in the Class 3 seat beginning in March 1891.

See also

• United States House of Representatives elections, 1890
• 52nd United States Congress

References

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