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.

1 Results
2 Change in Senate composition
3 See also
4 References

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	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	R

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

References

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

United States Senate elections

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