United States Senate elections, 1934

United States Senate elections, 1934

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The United States Senate elections of 1934 occurred in the middle of Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term. In the middle of the Great Depression, voters strongly backed Roosevelt's New Deal and his allies in the Senate.

The Democrats took nine Republican seats, including an open seat in Maryland and the seats of eight incumbents:
* Frederic C. Walcott (R-CT)
* Arthur Raymond Robinson (R-IN)
* Roscoe C. Patterson (R-MO)
* Hamilton F. Kean (R-NJ)
* Simeon D. Fess (R-OH)
* David A. Reed (R-PA)
* Felix Hebert (R-RI)
* Henry D. Hatfield (R-WV)

Further, Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R-WI) left the Republican Party to join the Progressive Party.

enate contests in 1934

See also

*United States House elections, 1934


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