1840–41 United States Senate elections

← 1838 & 1839 Various dates 1842 & 1843 →
18 of the 52 seats in theUnited States Senate (with special elections) 27 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Whig Democratic Last election 20 seats 28 seats Seats before 21 29 Seats won 11 6 Seats after 29 22 Seat change 8 7 Seats up 5 13
Results:      Democratic hold      Whig gain     Whig hold      Legislature failed to elect
Majority Party before election Democratic Elected Majority Party Whig

The1840–41 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As theseU.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of theSeventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen bystate legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1840 and 1841, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due tolegislative deadlock.^[1] In these elections, terms were up for the senators inClass 2.

Corresponding with their party'ssuccess in the 1840 presidential election, theWhig Party took control of the Senate.

Senate party division,27th Congress (1841–1843)

• Majority party: Whig (29)
• Minority party: Democratic (22–20)
• Other parties: (0)
• Vacant: (1–3)
• Total seats: 52

After the November 25, 1840special elections in North Carolina.

In these elections, the winners were elected during 1840 or in 1841 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In these regular elections, the winner was elected for the term beginning March 4, 1841; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 2 seats.

In this special election, the winner was elected in 1841 after March 4; ordered by election date.

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1841 United States Senate special election in Maryland

← 1837 December 1841 1843 →
80 members of theMaryland General Assembly
Candidate John Leeds Kerr Party Whig Legislative vote - Percentage -% %

John Leeds Kerr won election to a full term an unknown margin of votes, for the Class 3 seat.^[7]

There were three elections due to the February 22, 1841, resignation of WhigDaniel Webster to becomeU.S. Secretary of State and the January 5, 1841, resignation of WhigJohn Davis to becomeGovernor of Massachusetts.

WhigIsaac C. Bates was elected January 13, 1841, to finish Davis's term.

Bates was also elected January 13, 1841, to the next term.

Bates would only serve, however, until his March 16, 1845, death, and Davis wasagain elected to the seat.

WhigRufus Choate was elected February 23, 1841, to finish Webster's term which would continue until 1845.

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Nathaniel P. Tallmadge had been elected as aJacksonian Democrat in 1833 to this seat, and his term expired March 3, 1839. An election was held February 5, 1839. Although Tallmadge received the most votes, no candidate received a majority and the seat was declared vacant due to the legislature's failure to elect.

At the State election in November 1839, 7 Whigs and 3 Democrats were elected to the State Senate, which gave the Whigs a majority, the first anti-Bucktails/Jacksonian/Democratic majority in 20 years. The63rd New York State Legislature met from January 7 to May 14, 1840, atAlbany, New York. The strength of the parties in the Assembly, as shown by the vote forSpeaker, was: 68 for WhigGeorge Washington Patterson and 56 for DemocratLevi S. Chatfield.

On January 14, 1840, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge received a majority in both the Assembly and the Senate, and was declared elected.

Tallmadge re-took his seat on January 27, 1840,^[8] and remained in office until June 17, 1844, when he resigned to be appointedGovernor of Wisconsin Territory.Daniel S. Dickinson was appointed to fill the vacancy temporarily, and subsequently elected by the State Legislature to succeed Tallmadge.

There were three elections due to the November 16, 1840, resignations of DemocratsBedford Brown andRobert Strange.

WhigWillie Mangum was elected November 25, 1840, to finish Brown's term that would end in March 1841.

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Mangum was later re-elected in 1841 to the next term.

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WhigWilliam Alexander Graham was elected November 25, 1840, to finish Strange's term that would end in 1843.

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The election was held on January 14, 1840, after the regularly scheduled election in December 1838 was postponed due to theBuckshot War.Daniel Sturgeon was elected by thePennsylvania General Assembly to theUnited States Senate.^[9][10]

DemocratSamuel McKean was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of theHouse of Representatives and theSenate, in the1832–1833 Senate election. Sen. McKean's term was to expire on March 4, 1839, and an election would have occurred during the winter of 1838–1839 elect a senator for the successive term. The election did not occur, however, due to significant political unrest inHarrisburg, the state capital, over disputed election returns during theBuckshot War. McKean's seat was vacated when his term expired in March 1839 and remained vacant until the General Assembly elected a new senator in 1840.^[9]

The Pennsylvania General Assembly convened on January 14, 1840, to elect a senator to serve out the remainder of the term that began on March 4, 1839. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:

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• 1840 United States elections
  • 1840 United States presidential election
  • 1840–41 United States House of Representatives elections
• 26th United States Congress
• 27th United States Congress

• Party Division in the Senate, 1789–Present, via Senate.gov
• Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682–2006 from theWilkes University Election Statistics Project

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