United States Senate elections, 1910

United States Senate elections, 1910

1910
31 of the 92 seats in the United States Senate 47 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Last election 60 seats 32 seats Seats won 48 44 Seat change 12 12
Majority Party before election Republican Elected Majority Party Republican

Some states elected their Senators directly even before passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913. Oregon pioneered direct election and experimented with different measures over several years until it succeeded in 1907. Soon after, Nebraska followed suit and laid the foundation for other states to adopt measures reflecting the people's will. By 1912, as many as 29 states elected senators either as nominees of their party's primary or in conjunction with a general election.

Complete list of races

* = indicates elections in which Senators were selected by some form of direct voting and then subsequently elected by state legislatures.

February 23, 1910 election

State	Incumbent	Party	Results	Other Candidates
Mississippi Special: Class 2	James Gordon	Democratic	Appointee retired when successor elected Democratic hold	LeRoy Percy (Democratic)

November 1910 elections

State	Incumbent	Party	Results	Other Candidates
California	Frank Putnam Flint	Republican	Retired Republican hold: 76.67% - 23.33%	John D. Works (Republican) Scattering
Delaware	Henry A. du Pont	Republican	Re-elected	Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (Democratic)
Florida	James Taliaferro	Democratic	Lost re-election Democratic hold	Nathan P. Bryan (Democratic)
Indiana	Albert J. Beveridge	Republican	Lost re-election: 60% - 40% Democratic gain	John W. Kern (Democratic)
Maine	Eugene Hale	Republican	Retired Democratic gain: Unopposed	Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democratic)
Maryland	Isidor Rayner	Democratic	Re-elected: unopposed
Massachusetts	Henry Cabot Lodge	Republican	Re-elected: unopposed
Michigan	Julius C. Burrows	Republican	Defeated in primary, Republican elected: 89.15% - 10.85%	Charles E. Townsend (Republican) John Winship (Democratic)
Minnesota	Moses E. Clapp	Republican	Re-elected: unopposed
Mississippi	Hernando Money	Democratic	Retired Democratic hold: Unopposed	John Sharp Williams (Democratic)
Missouri	William Warner	Republican	Retired Democratic gain	James A. Reed (Democratic) John C. McKinley (Republican)
Montana	Thomas H. Carter	Republican	Retired Democratic gain: Unopposed	Henry L. Myers (Democratic)
Nebraska	Elmer Burkett	Republican	Lost re-election Democratic gain	Gilbert Hitchcock (Democratic)
Nevada*	George S. Nixon	Republican	Re-elected: 48.03% - 42.35% - 9.62%	Key Pittman (Democratic) Jud Harris (Socialist)
New Jersey	John Kean	Republican	Retired Democratic gain	James Edgar Martine (Democratic) David Baird (Republican)
New York	Chauncey Depew	Republican	Lost re-election: 58.33% - 41.67% Democratic gain	James Aloysius O'Gorman (Democratic)
North Dakota General: Class 1	Porter J. McCumber	Republican	Re-elected	John Bruegger (Democratic)
North Dakota Special: Class 3	William E. Purcell	Democratic	Appointee lost election to finish term Republican gain	Asle Gronna (Republican)
Ohio	Charles W. F. Dick	Republican	Lost re-election Democratic gain	Atlee Pomerene (Democratic)
Pennsylvania	George T. Oliver	Republican	Re-elected: 72.69% - 14.06% - 10.04% - 1.21% - 0.8%	J. Henry Cochran (Democratic) Julian Kennedy (Democratic) James B. Riley (Democratic) William Flinn (Republican)
Rhode Island	Nelson W. Aldrich	Republican	Retired Republican hold: Unopposed	Henry F. Lippitt (Republican)
Tennessee	James B. Frazier	Democratic	Lost re-election Democratic hold	Luke Lea (Democratic)
Texas	Charles Allen Culberson	Democratic	Re-elected: Unopposed
Utah	George Sutherland	Republican	Re-elected: Unopposed
Vermont	Carroll S. Page	Republican	Re-elected: Unopposed
Virginia	John W. Daniel	Democratic	Re-elected posthumously. Claude A. Swanson (D) had already been appointed in his place
Washington	Samuel H. Piles	Republican	Retired Republican hold: Unopposed	Miles Poindexter (Republican)
West Virginia General: Class 1	Nathan B. Scott	Republican	Lost re-election Democratic gain	William E. Chilton (Democratic)
West Virginia Special: Class 2	Davis Elkins	Republican	Retired Democratic gain: Unopposed	Clarence Wayland Watson (Democratic)
Wisconsin	Robert M. La Follette, Sr.	Republican	Re-elected: Unopposed
Wyoming	Clarence D. Clark	Republican	Re-elected: Unopposed

November 17, 1910 election

State	Incumbent	Party	Results	Other Candidates
Georgia Special: Class 3	Alexander S. Clay	Democratic	Incumbent died November 10, 1910 Successor elected to finish term Democratic hold	Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic)

December 6, 1910 election

State	Incumbent	Party	Results	Other Candidates
Louisiana Special: Class 3	John Thornton	Democratic	Appointee elected to finish term: Unopposed

1911 elections

January 17, 1911 election

State	Incumbent	Party	Results	Other Candidates
Connecticut	Morgan Bulkeley	Republican	Lost renomination and lost re-election as write-in candidate: 61.46% - 38.19% - 0.35% Republican hold	George P. McLean (Republican) Homer Stille Cummings (Democratic)

Results

Senate Party Division, 62nd Congress (1911–1913):

• Majority Party: Republican (48 seats)
• Minority Party: Democratic (43 seats, later 47)
• Other Parties: 0
• Vacant: 1 (Charles J. Hughes, Jr. (D) died after this election but he was not replaced until late into the next Congress.
• Total Seats: 91

Four seats were added in early 1912 for new states: Arizona (which elected 2 Democrats) and New Mexico (which elected 2 Republicans).

Change in Senate composition

Before the elections 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 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

Beginning of the next 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 D D R R V D D 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 R R

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

References

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