Senate Results

With the Mississippi Special Election Runoff on Tuesday the Senate Election results are in in every state. The Republicans have won a majority with 53 Senators and the Vice President as a tiebreaker. The Democrats will be the minority party with 47 Senators. The Republicans won 11 seats voted on this year while the Democrats won 24 seats up this year and the popular vote. The rest of the seats were up in the 2014 and 2016 election and the Republicans won the popular vote and the most seats in both elections. When the 3 elections and 100 seats are counted together the Republicans have won the composite popular vote.

The Republicans have picked up 2 seats in this election from the current congress and also 1 seat more than they won in 2016. The Republicans control both senators in 22 states while the Democrats control both senators in 19 states. In 9 states the senators are split between both parties. The Vice President is Republican. This shows that America is divided since few states have the Senators split between the two parties. Sharod Brown Reelection in Ohio keeping the Ohio senators divided between the two parties.

The President of the next Senate (Vice President) will still be Mike Pence as his term last 2 more years. The republican nominee for President Pro Tempore (Vice President of the Senate) is Chuck Grassley. The Democratic Nominee is Patrick Leahy. The Republican will almost certainly win. The other leaders will stay the same. The Majority Leader will be Mitch McConnell. The Minority Leader will be Chuck Schumer. The Majority Whip will be John Thune. The Minority Whip will be Dick Durbin. It looks like the only major change is Chuck Grassley will replace the outgoing Senator Orrin Hatch as President Pro Tempro and 4th in line for the Presidency after: President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House.