United States Senate elections, 1920

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The U.S. Senate election, 1920 was an election for the United States Senate which coincided with the election of Warren G. Harding as President. Democrat Woodrow Wilson's unpopularity allowed Republicans to win races across the country, winning ten seats from the Democrats and cementing their majority. The Republican landslide was so vast that the Democrats failed to win a single race outside the South.

Republicans took open seats in Colorado, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, and defeated seven Democratic incumbents:

1 Senate contests in 1920
2 References
3 See also
4 Senate composition before and after elections

[edit] Senate contests in 1920

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Alabama¹	Braxton B. Comer	Democrat	Retired: Democratic victory, 71.4 - 27.4	J. Thomas Heflin (Democrat) C. P. Lunsford (Republican)
Alabama	Oscar W. Underwood	Democrat	Re-elected, 68.0 - 31.2	L. H. Reynolds (Republican)
Arizona	Marcus A. Smith	Democrat	Defeated, 55.2 - 44.8	Ralph H. Cameron (Republican)
Arkansas	William F. Kirby	Democrat	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, 65.9 - 34.1	Thaddeus H. Caraway (Democrat) Charles F. Cole (Republican)
California	James D. Phelan	Democrat	Defeated, 49.0 - 40.7 - 6.3 - 4.0	Samuel M. Shortridge (Republican) James S. Edwards (Prohibition) Elvina S. Beals(Socialist)
Colorado	Charles S. Thomas	Democrat	Retired: Republican victory, 54.5 - 39.3	Samuel D. Nicholson (Republican) Tully Scot (Democrat)
Connecticut	Frank B. Brandegee	Republican	Re-elected, 59.4 - 36.1	Augustine Lonergan (Democrat)
Florida	Duncan U. Fletcher	Democrat	Re-elected, 74.3 - 21.0	John M. Cheney (Republican)
Georgia	Hoke Smith	Democrat	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, 94.9 - 5.1	Thomas E. Watson (Democrat) Harvey S. Edwards (Independent)
Idaho	John F. Nugent	Democrat	Defeated, 54.1 - 45.9	Frank R. Gooding (Republican)
Illinois	Lawrence Y. Sherman	Republican	Retired: Republican victory, 66.8 - 26.8	William B. McKinley (Republican) Peter A. Waller (Democrat)
Indiana	James E. Watson	Republican	Re-elected, 54.6 - 41.2	Thomas Taggart (Democrat)
Iowa	Albert B. Cummins	Republican	Re-elected, 61.4 - 37.4	Claude R. Porter (Democrat)
Kansas	Charles Curtis	Republican	Re-elected, 64.0 - 33.4	George H. Hodges (Democrat)
Kentucky	John C. W. Beckham	Democrat	Defeated, 50.3 - 49.7	Richard P. Ernst (Republican)
Louisiana	Edward J. Gay	Democrat	Retired: Democratic victory, unopposed	Edwin S. Broussard (Democrat)
Maryland	John W. Smith	Democrat	Defeated, 47.3 - 43.3	Ovington E. Weller (Republican)
Missouri	Selden P. Spencer	Republican	Re-elected, 53.7 - 44.5	Breckenridge Long (Democrat)
Nevada	Charles B. Henderson	Democrat	Defeated, 42.1 - 37.9 - 18.2	Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) Anne Martin (Independent)
New Hampshire	George H. Moses	Republican	Re-elected, 57.7 - 41.6	Raymond B. Stevens (Democrat)
New York^[1]	James W. Wadsworth, Jr.	Republican	Re-elected, 52.4 (1,431,347) - 32.9 (885,061) - 7.8 (159,477) - 5.8 (151,246)	Harry C. Walker (Democrat) 885,061 Ella A. Boole (Prohibition) 159,477 Jacob Panken (Socialist) 151,246 Rose Schneiderman (Farmer-Labor) 15,086 Harry Carlson (Socialist Labor) 6,522
North Carolina	Lee S. Overman	Democrat	Re-elected, 57.5 - 42.5	A. E. Holton (Republican)
North Dakota	Asle J. Gronna	Republican	Defeated in primary: Republican victory, 59.8 - 40.2	Edwin F. Ladd (Republican) H. H. Perry (Democrat)
Ohio	Warren G. Harding	Republican	Retired: Republican victory, 59.1 - 40.8	Frank B. Willis (Republican) W. A. Julian (Democrat)
Oklahoma	Thomas P. Gore	Democrat	Defeated in primary: Republican victory, 50.6 - 44.6	John W. Harreld (Republican) Scott Ferris (Democrat)
Oregon	George E. Chamberlain	Democrat	Defeated, 50.7 - 43.5	Robert N. Stanfield (Republican)
Pennsylvania	Boies Penrose	Republican	Re-elected, 59.9 - 27.2 - 7.4	John A. Farrell (Democrat) Leah C. Marion (Prohibition)
South Carolina	Ellison D. Smith	Democrat	Re-elected, unopposed
South Dakota	Edwin S. Johnson	Democrat	Retired: Republican victory, 50.1 - 24.1 - 20.0 - 5.5	Peter Norbeck (Republican) Tom Ayres (Independent) U. S. G. Cherry (Democrat) Richard Olsen Richards (Independent)
Utah	Reed Smoot	Republican	Re-elected, 56.6 - 38.6	Milton H. Welling (Democrat)
Vermont	William P. Dillingham	Republican	Re-elected, 78.0 - 21.9	Howard E. Shaw (Democrat)
Virginia²	Carter Glass	Democrat	Re-elected, 91.3 - 8.7	J. R. Pollard (Republican)
Washington	Wesley L. Jones	Republican	Re-elected, 56.4 - 25.4 - 17.8	C. L. France (Farmer-Labor) George F. Cotterill (Democrat)
Wisconsin	Irvine L. Lenroot	Republican	Re-elected, 41.6 - 34.7 - 13.2 - 9.8	James Thompson (Independent) Paul S. Reinsch (Democrat) Frank J. Weber (Socialist)

¹ special election held due to death of John H. Bankhead (D-AL)
² special election held due to death of Thomas S. Martin (D-VA)

[edit] References

^ Johnson, Willis Fletcher; Roscoe C. E. (Roscoe Conkling Ensign) Brown, Walter Whipple Spooner, Willis Holly (1922). History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. The Syracuse Press, 347 - 348, 350.