1996 general · November 5, 1996

1996 U.S. Senate election results

Name: 1996 U.S. Senate election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every U.S. Senate race in the 1996 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races34

Changed party6

Unopposed0%0 races

U.S. Senate

D 13 · R 21

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Jeff Sessions (R)	7.0	Flipped
Alaska	Ted Stevens (R)	64.2
Arkansas	Tim Hutchinson (R)	5.4	Flipped
Colorado	Wayne Allard (R)	5.7
Delaware	Joseph Biden (D)	21.9
Georgia	Max Cleland (D)	1.3
Idaho	Larry Craig (R)	17.1
Illinois	Richard J. Durbin (D)	15.4
Iowa	Tom Harkin (D)	5.1
Kansas	Pat Roberts (R)	27.6
Kansas (special)	Samuel Brownback (R)	10.6
Kentucky	Mitch McConnell (R)	12.6
Louisiana	Mary L. Landrieu (D)	0.3
Maine	Susan Collins (R)	5.3
Massachusetts	John F. Kerry (D)	7.5
Michigan	Carl Levin (D)	18.5
Minnesota	Paul Wellstone (D)	9.0
Mississippi	Thad Cochran (R)	43.6
Montana	Max Baucus (D)	4.9
Nebraska	Charles Hagel (R)	14.8	Flipped
New Hampshire	Robert Smith (R)	3.0
New Jersey	Robert Torricelli (D)	10.1
New Mexico	Pete Domenici (R)	34.9
North Carolina	Jesse Helms (R)	6.7
Oklahoma	James M. Inhofe (R)	16.6	Flipped
Oregon	Gordon Smith (R)	3.9
Rhode Island	Jack Reed (D)	28.4
South Carolina	Strom Thurmond (R)	9.4
South Dakota	Tim Johnson (D)	2.6	Flipped
Tennessee	Fred Thompson (R)	24.5	Flipped
Texas	Phil Gramm (R)	10.8
Virginia	John Warner (R)	5.1
West Virginia	John D. Rockefeller, IV (D)	53.3
Wyoming	Michael B. Enzi (R)	11.9

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab