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1932 United States Senate elections

1932 United States Senate elections

← 1930 November 8, 1932 1934 →

34 of the 96 seats in the United States Senate
49 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Joseph Robinson James Watson
(Lost re-election)
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since December 3, 1923 March 4, 1929
Leader's seat Arkansas Indiana
Seats before 47[a] 48
Seats after 59[2] 36
Seat change Increase 12 Decrease 12
Seats up 17 17
Races won 28 6

  Third party
 
Party Farmer–Labor
Seats before 1
Seats after 1
Seat change Steady
Seats up 0
Races won 0


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Results of the elections:
     Democratic gain      Democratic hold
     Republican hold
     No election

Majority Leader before election

James Watson
Republican

Elected Majority Leader

Joseph Robinson
Democratic

The 1932 United States Senate elections coincided with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory over incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential election. The 32 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections, and special elections were held to fill vacancies.

With the Hoover administration widely blamed for the Great Depression, Republicans lost twelve seats and control of the chamber to the Democrats, who won 28 of the 34 contested races (two Democratic incumbents, Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida and John H. Overton of Louisiana, were re-elected unopposed). Democrats gained another seat through an appointment in Nebraska, bringing their total number of seats up to 60.

Among the Republican incumbents defeated in 1932 were Senate Majority Leader James Watson and five-term Senator Reed Smoot, an author of the controversial Smoot-Hawley tariff.[3] This was the first of four elections in which a Senate leader lost re-election, and the only time they were a Republican. This election marked the first time a woman was elected to the Senate, that being Hattie Caraway of Arkansas. As of 2024, this is the last time Democrats won a Senate election in Kansas.

This is also one of only five occasions where 10 or more Senate seats changed hands in an election, with the other occasions being in 1920, 1946, 1958, and 1980.

  1. ^ "THE CONGRESS: Democratic Senate". TIME. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  2. ^ "U.S. Senate: Party Division". U.S. Senate. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  3. ^ Whaples, Robert (March 1995). "Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions". The Journal of Economic History. 55 (1). Cambridge University Press: 144. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.482.4975. doi:10.1017/S0022050700040602. JSTOR 2123771. S2CID 145691938.


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