Dem 47
image description
   
GOP 53
image description

Partisanship Reigns--Mostly

Now that popular three-term Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have been defeated because their states are so red, one might think that every state is either all blue or all red and candidates from the minority party cannot ever win anything. While most states are indeed either red or blue, not all of them are completely so. A typical red state, like Alabama, voted for Donald Trump and has a Republican governor and two Republican senators. There are 21 states like this. A typical blue state, like California, voted for Kamala Harris and has a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators. There are 15 of these. The other 14 are mixed. Here, politicans from both parties can win statewide under the right circumstances. Here is the lineup for Jan. 2025. The background color in the box with the state's name indicates whether it is a pure blue, pure red, or at least somewhat purple state. Fourteen states are at least somewhat purple in that neither party dominates everything.

State President 2024 Governor Senior senator Junior senator
Alabama Donald Trump Kay Ivey (R) Tommy Tuberville (R) Katie Britt (R)
Alaska Donald Trump Mike Dunleavy (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) Dan Sullivan (R)
Arizona Donald Trump Katie Hobbs (D) Mark Kelly (D) Ruben Gallego (D)
Arkansas Donald Trump Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) John Boozman (R) Tom Cotton (R)
California Kamala Harris Gavin Newsom (D) Alex Padilla (D) Adam Schiff (D)
Colorado Kamala Harris Jared Polis (D) Michael Bennet (D) John Hickenlooper (D)
Connecticut Kamala Harris Ned Lamont (D) Richard Blumenthal (D) Christopher Murphy (D)
Delaware Kamala Harris Matt Meyer (D) Christopher Coons (D) Lisa Rochester (D)
Florida Donald Trump Ron DeSantis (R) Marco Rubio (R) Rick Scott (R)
Georgia Donald Trump Brian Kemp (R) Jon Ossoff (D) Raphael Warnock (D)
Hawaii Kamala Harris Joshua Green (D) Brian Schatz (D) Mazie Hirono (D)
Idaho Donald Trump Brad Little (R) Mike Crapo (R) James Risch (R)
Illinois Kamala Harris J.B. Pritzker (D) Richard Durbin (D) Tammy Duckworth (D)
Indiana Donald Trump Mike Braun (R) Todd Young (R) Jim Banks (R)
Iowa Donald Trump Kim Reynolds (R) Chuck Grassley (R) Joni Ernst (R)
Kansas Donald Trump Laura Kelly (D) Jerry Moran (R) Roger Marshall (R)
Kentucky Donald Trump Andy Beshear (D) Mitch McConnell (R) Rand Paul (R)
Louisiana Donald Trump Jeff Landry (R) Bill Cassidy (R) John Kennedy (R)
Maine Kamala Harris Janet T. Mills (D) Susan Collins (R) Angus King (I)
Maryland Kamala Harris Wes Moore (D) Chris Van Hollen (D) Angela Alsobrooks (D)
Massachusetts Kamala Harris Maura Healey (D) Elizabeth Warren (D) Edward Markey (D)
Michigan Donald Trump Gretchen Whitmer (D) Gary Peters (D) Elissa Slotkin (D)
Minnesota Kamala Harris Tim Walz (D) Amy Klobuchar (D) Tina Smith (D)
Mississippi Donald Trump Tate Reeves (R) Roger Wicker (R) Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)
Missouri Donald Trump Mike Kehoe (R) Josh Hawley (R) Eric Schmitt (R)
Montana Donald Trump Greg Gianforte (R) Steve Daines (R) Tim Sheehy (R)
Nebraska Donald Trump Jim Pillen (R) Deb Fischer (R) Pete Ricketts (R)
Nevada Donald Trump Joe Lombardo (R) Catherine Cortez-Masto (D) Jacky Rosen (D)
New Hampshire Kamala Harris Kelly Ayotte (R) Jeanne Shaheen (D) Maggie Hassan (D)
New Jersey Kamala Harris Phil Murphy (D) Cory Booker (D) Andy Kim (D)
New Mexico Kamala Harris Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) Martin Heinrich (D) Ben Ray Lujan (D)
New York Kamala Harris Kathy Hochul (D) Charles Schumer (D) Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
North Carolina Donald Trump Josh Stein (D) Thom Tillis (R) Ted Budd (R)
North Dakota Donald Trump Kelly Armstrong (R) John Hoeven (R) Kevin Cramer (R)
Ohio Donald Trump Mike DeWine (R) Bernie Moreno (R) TBD
Oklahoma Donald Trump Kevin Stitt (R) James Lankford (R) Markwayne Mullin (R)
Oregon Kamala Harris Tina Kotek (D) Ron Wyden (D) Jeff Merkley (D)
Pennsylvania Donald Trump Josh Shapiro (D) John Fetterman (D) Dave McCormick (R)
Rhode Island Kamala Harris Daniel McKee (D) Jack Reed (D) Sheldon Whitehouse (D)
South Carolina Donald Trump Henry McMaster (R) Lindsey Graham (R) Tim Scott (R)
South Dakota Donald Trump Kristi L. Noem (R) John Thune (R) Mike Rounds (R)
Tennessee Donald Trump Bill Lee (R) Marsha Blackburn (R) Bill Hagerty (R)
Texas Donald Trump Greg Abbott (R) John Cornyn (R) Ted Cruz (R)
Utah Donald Trump Spencer Cox (R) Mike Lee (R) John Curtis (R)
Vermont Kamala Harris Phil Scott (R) Bernie Sanders (I) Peter Welch (D)
Virginia Kamala Harris Glenn Youngkin (R) Mark Warner (D) Tim Kaine (D)
Washington Kamala Harris Bob Ferguson (D) Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D)
West Virginia Donald Trump Patrick Morrisey (R) Shelley Moore-Capito (R) Jim Justice (R)
Wisconsin Donald Trump Tony Evers (D) Ron Johnson (R) Tammy Baldwin (D)
Wyoming Donald Trump Mark Gordon (R) John Barrasso (R) Cynthia Lummis (R)

One oddity here is that the day Bernie Moreno is sworn in as senator from Ohio on Jan. 3, 2025, he will be the junior senator because J.D. Vance will still be a senator. But when Vance resigns from the Senate, probably a week or two after that, then Moreno will become the senior senator and whoever Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) appoints to replace Vance will become the junior senator.

If you want to consult this page in the future, it is on the Data galore page on the menu to the left of the map in the section "Other Election Data." (V)



This item appeared on www.electoral-vote.com. Read it Monday through Friday for political and election news, Saturday for answers to reader's questions, and Sunday for letters from readers.

www.electoral-vote.com                     State polls                     All Senate candidates