No 20-Year Club in the 116th Congress
Prior to Jeff Sessions’ departure in 2017, it had been 30+ years since the last time the chamber did not contain at least one state delegation whose members had served two decades together.
Alabama
Number of Plurality-Winning US Senators Nears Century-Long High
Doug Jones’ victory last month brings the total of senators elected to the chamber with a plurality of the vote to 14 – tied for the most in 95+ years.
Eight Is Enough: Alabama Democrats Make the Record Books
Doug Jones’ victory marks just the sixth time out of 56 attempts that an eight-election partisan U.S. Senate winning streak has come to an end during the direct election era.
The Shortest-Serving U.S. Senators in Alabama History
Ten of the state’s 41 men and women who were sworn into the chamber served less than one year.
Jones vs Moore Just 3rd US Senate Special Election Held in December
Thirty-one of 175 specials conducted since 1913 have been held outside of November with just 22 during odd-numbered years.
Democrats and Republicans Currently Have Record US Senate Winning Streaks in 28 States
Only one region of the country is regularly seeing both parties win U.S. Senate seats in the vast majority of its states.
Doug Jones Victory Would Give Alabama Rare Split US Senate Delegation
The Yellowhammer State is tied with Kansas for the fewest years of sending lawmakers to the Senate from different political parties over the last century.
9th Time’s a Charm: Can Democrats Win Alabama’s US Senate Special Election?
Only five of 55 U.S. Senate partisan winning streaks of eight in a row have been halted in the subsequent contest during direct election era.
History Gives Luther Strange Long Odds in US Senate Primary Runoff
No appointed US Senator has ever won a primary runoff and only two incumbents who placed second in the initial primary have done so.
Record Partisan Gubernatorial Winning Streaks On the Line in 2018
Record partisan winning streaks in races for governor can be extended, broken, or tied in 15 states holding elections in 2018.