The 1996 United States Senate elections coincided with the presidential election of the same year,in which Democrat Bill Clinton was re-elected president.
The 1986 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in the middle of Ronald Reagan's second presidential term. The Republicans had to defend an unusually large number of freshman Senate incumbents who had been elected on President Ronald Reagan's coattails in 1980. Democrats won a net of eight seats,defeating seven freshman incumbents,picking up two Republican-held open seats and regaining control of the Senate for the first time since January 1981. This remains the most recent midterm election in which the incumbent party suffered net losses while still flipping a Senate seat.
The 1980 United States Senate elections coincided with Ronald Reagan's victory in the presidential election. Reagan's large margin of victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter gave a huge boost to Republican Senate candidates,allowing them to flip 12 Democratic seats and win control of the chamber for the first time since the end of the 83rd Congress in January 1955.
The 1978 United States Senate elections in the middle of Democratic President Jimmy Carter's term. Thirteen seats changed hands between parties,resulting in a net gain of three seats for the Republicans. Democrats nevertheless retained a 58–41 majority.
The 1972 United States Senate elections coincided with the landslide re-election of Republican President Richard Nixon. Despite Nixon's landslide victory,Democrats increased their majority by two seats. After the elections,Democrats held 56 seats,and Republicans held 42 seats,with 1 Conservative and 1 independent senator. These were the first elections in which all citizens at least 18 years of age could vote,due to the 1971 passage of the 26th Amendment.
The 2008 United States Senate elections were held on November 4,2008,with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. Thirty-three seats were up for regular elections;the winners were eligible to serve six-year terms from January 3,2009 to January 3,2015,as members of Class 2. There were also two special elections,the winners of those seats would finish the terms that ended January 3,2013.
The 1936 United States Senate elections coincided with the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Great Depression continued and voters backed progressive candidates favoring Roosevelt's New Deal in races across the country. The Democrats gained 5 net seats during the election,and in combination with Democratic and Farmer–Labor interim appointments and the defection of George W. Norris from the Republican Party to become independent,the Republicans were reduced to 16 seats,the most lopsided Senate since Reconstruction.
The 1914 United States Senate elections,with the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913,were the first time that all seats up for election were popularly elected instead of chosen by their state legislatures. These elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's first term.
Guy Mark Gillette was an American politician serving as a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from Iowa. In the U.S. Senate,Gillette was elected,re-elected,defeated,elected again,and defeated again.
Michael J. Doherty is an American Republican Party politician who serves in the New Jersey Senate representing the 23rd Legislative District. He was sworn into the State Senate on November 23,2009,having won the seat held by Marcia A. Karrow,who had earlier been selected by a party convention to succeed Leonard Lance after his election to the United States House of Representatives. Doherty had served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2009.
Lester Jesse Dickinson was a Republican United States Representative and Senator from Iowa. He was,in the words of Time magazine,"a big,friendly,white-thatched Iowa lawyer." In early 1936 he dreamed of winning the presidency. However,the only race he would enter that year would be for his own seat in the Senate,and he would lose it.
The 2012 United States Senate elections were held on November 6,2012,with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections whose winners would serve six-year terms beginning January 3,2013,with the 113th Congress. Democrats had 21 seats up for election,plus 1 Independent and 1 Independent Democrat,while the Republicans had only 10 seats up for election.
Patrick Grassley is the Iowa State Representative from the 50th District. A Republican,Grassley has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2007. He also serves as speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives. Grassley is the grandson of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley.
Burton Erwin Sweet was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district,then a wide but short chain of counties in north-central and northeastern Iowa,in the shape of a monkey wrench.
Cassius Clay Dowell was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to 1935,and again from 1937 until his death in 1940,with the interregnum caused by an unsuccessful campaign for reelection in 1934.
There were two sets of 2006 Iowa House of Representatives elections. The first,the general election,was held on November 7. The second,a special election for District 52,was held on December 12. The representatives-elect from both sets of elections were inaugurated on January 3,2007. The Iowa House,like the United States House of Representatives,is up for re-election in its entirety every two years. Prior to the elections,the Republicans were in the majority;following inauguration,the Democrats were in the majority –this marked the first time in 42 years that the Democrats had controlled both branches of the Iowa General Assembly and the Governor's Office at the same time.
The 2014 United States Senate elections were held on November 4,2014. A total of 36 seats in the 100-member U.S. Senate were contested. Thirty-three Class 2 seats were contested for regular six-year terms to be served from January 3,2015 to January 3,2021,and three Class 3 seats were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies. The elections marked 100 years of direct elections of U.S. Senators. Going into the elections,21 of the contested seats were held by the Democratic Party,while 15 were held by the Republican Party.
Marlin Andrew Stutzman is an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives,representing Indiana's 3rd congressional district,from 2010 to 2017. A Republican,Stutzman previously served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 to 2008,representing district 52,and as a member of the Indiana Senate,representing the 13th district,from 2009 to 2010.
Kent Sorenson is a former Iowa state legislator who resigned after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and other felonies related to campaign finances.
Julian B. Garrett is an American lawyer and politician.
