United States Senate elections, 1842

The United States Senate election of 1842 was an election which had the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

pick up one vacant seat in the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

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As this election was prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment

Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures...

, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.

Results

28th Congress

28th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:Following the 1840 United States Census, Congress reapportioned the House to include 223 seats . During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Florida .- Senate :*President: Vacant...

(1843–1845)

Majority Party: Whig (29)
Minority Party: Democratic (23)
Other Parties: (0)
Total Seats: 52

Change in Senate composition

Before the elections
D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
W	W	W	V	V	V	D	D	D	D
W
W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
W	W	W	W	W	W

Beginning of the next Congress 28th United States Congress -House of Representatives:Following the 1840 United States Census, Congress reapportioned the House to include 223 seats . During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Florida .- Senate :*President: Vacant...
D	D	D	D	D	D
D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
V	V	V	V	D	D	D	D	D	D
W
W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
W	W	W	W	W	W

Key:

D	= Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
W	= Whig Whig Party (United States) The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...
V	= Vacant

Majority

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Results

Change in Senate composition

See also