1904–05 United States Senate elections

← 1902 & 1903 February 4, 1904 – April 20, 1905 1906 & 1907 →
30 of the 90 seats in theUnited States Senate (as well as special elections) 46 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader William B. Allison Arthur P. Gorman (retired) Party Republican Democratic Leader since March 4, 1897 March 4, 1903 Leader's seat Iowa Maryland Seats before 57 33 Seats won 22 5 Seats after 57 32 Seat change 1 Seats up 23 7
Results of the elections:      Democratic gain     Democratic hold      Republican gain     Republican hold      Legislature failed to elect
Majority Party before election Republican Elected Majority Party Republican

The1904–05 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, coinciding with PresidentTheodore Roosevelt's landslideelection to a full term and the1904 House of Representatives elections. 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 1904 and 1905, 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 1.

Party share of seats remained roughly the same, when including vacancies and appointments, and the Republicans retained a significant majority over the Democrats.

Special elections were held in Indiana and Massachusetts, in the former due to the ascension ofCharles Fairbanks to theVice Presidency and in the latter due to the death of longtime SenatorGeorge Hoar.

InGeorgia, the legislature failed to elect until shortly after the beginning of the59th Congress on March 4. InDelaware the legislature deadlocked and did not elect a Senator until June 1906.

Senate party division,59th Congress (1905–1907)

• Majority party: Republican (58)
• Minority party: Democratic (32)
• Other parties: (0)
• Total seats: 90

Despite legislative deadlocks and the long periods of vacancy in some states, the Republican Party's dominance in the Senate was further solidified in these elections. The party's strong performance in the Senate mirrored President Theodore Roosevelt's landslide victory in the 1904 presidential election. This continuity of Republican control in both the executive and legislative branches contributed to the implementation of Roosevelt's progressive policies, such as trust-busting and railroad regulation, further cementing the party's influence during the early 20th century.

At the beginning of 1904.

In these elections, the winners were seated during 1904 or in 1905 before March 4; ordered by election date.

In this election, the winner was seated March 4, 1905.

In these elections, the winners were seated March 4, 1907, in the 60th Congress; ordered by election date.

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning March 4, 1905; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats.

In these elections, the winners were elected in 1905 after March 4; sorted by election date.

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1904 United States Senate election in Maryland

← 1898 February 9, 1904 1910 →
80 members of theMaryland General Assembly
Candidate Isidor Rayner Louis E. McComas Party Democratic Republican Legislative vote 80 36 Percentage 70.49% 29.51

Isidor Rayner defeated incumbentLouis E. McComas by a margin of 40.98%, or 50 votes for the Class 1 seat.^[12]

The 1905 election in New York was held on January 17, 1905, by theNew York State Legislature. RepublicanChauncey M. Depew had been elected to this seat in1899, and his term would expire on March 3, 1905. At theState election in November 1904, large Republican majorities were elected for a two-year term (1905–1906) in the State Senate, and for the session of 1905 to the Assembly. The 128th State Legislature met from January 3, 1905, on atAlbany, New York.

Late in 1904, Ex-GovernorFrank S. Black tried to be nominated to succeed Depew. Black was supported by GovernorBenjamin B. Odell Jr., but after intense fighting behind the scenes, Odell finally dropped Black and accepted Depew's re-election which had been supported by his fellow SenatorThomas C. Platt and SpeakerS. Frederick Nixon. TheRepublican caucus met on January 16. They re-nominated the incumbent U.S. SenatorChauncey M. Depew unanimously.

TheDemocratic caucus met also on January 16. They nominated againSmith M. Weed who had been the candidate of the Democratic minority in theU.S. Senate election of 1887.

Chauncey M. Depew was the choice of both the Assembly and the State Senate, and was declared elected.

Note: The votes were cast on January 17, but both Houses met in a joint session on January 18 to compare nominations, and declare the result.

The election in Pennsylvania was held on January 17, 1905. IncumbentPhilander C. Knox was elected by thePennsylvania State Assembly to his first full term in theUnited States Senate.^[13]

RepublicanMatthew Quay was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate in the previous election inJanuary 1901. He served until his death on May 28, 1904.^[14] In June 1904, RepublicanPhilander C. Knox was appointed to serve out the remainder of Quay's term, ending on March 4, 1905, when he began a term in his own right.^[15]

The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of theHouse of Representatives andSenate, convened on January 17, 1905, to elect a Senator to serve the term beginning on March 4, 1905. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:

• 1904 United States elections
  • 1904 United States presidential election
  • 1904 United States House of Representatives elections
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• 59th United States Congress

• Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present, via Senate.gov
• Rhoades, Henry Eckford; McPherson, Edward; Schem, A. J.; Ottarson, F. J.; Cleveland, John F.; Greeley, Horace (1905).The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1905.New York:The Tribune Association. pp. 233–234.
• The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1906.New York:The Tribune Association. 1906. pp. 244–246.
• New York
  • "BLACK AND DEPEW SEE ODELL ON SENATORSHIP"(PDF).The New York Times. November 23, 1904.
  • "ODELL FOR BLACK; OPEN WAR BEGINS"(PDF).The New York Times. December 16, 1904.
  • "BLACK NOW A CANDIDATE, HIS ORGAN DECLARES"(PDF).The New York Times. December 18, 1904.
  • "ODELL YIELDS TO DEPEW; SENATORSHIP FIGHT ENDS"(PDF).The New York Times. December 30, 1904.
  • "DEPEW NAMED FOR SENATOR.; ...S.M. Weed Democratic Nominee"(PDF).The New York Times. January 17, 1905.
  • "ANOTHER TERM FOR DEPEW"(PDF).The New York Times. January 18, 1905.
• Pennsylvania:Cox, Harold (January 31, 2007)."Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006".The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

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