1996 United States Senate elections

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The 1996 United States Senate elections were held on November 5, 1996, with the 33 seats of Class 2 contested in regular elections. Special elections were also held to fill vacancies. They coincided with the presidential election of the same year, in which Democrat Bill Clinton was re-elected president. Republicans held a 54–46 majority going into 1996, but a January special election in Oregon resulted in Democrats reducing the majority to 53–47. Despite the re-election of Clinton and Al Gore, and despite Democrats picking up a net two seats in the elections to the United States House of Representatives held the same day, the Republicans had a net gain of two seats in the Senate, following major Republican gains two years before in the 1994 elections. As such, combined with neither party making a net gain of Senate seats in 1992, Clinton became the only two-term president to not have any Senate coattails in either of his runs since the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913. The Republicans...

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