The 2020 Senate Election Results
In the U.S. Senate race, a Republican candidate leads or has won six of the seven tossup seats.
Before the election, the makeup of the Senate was a 53-47 Republican majority. Democrats lost the Alabama seat, but picked up Colorado and Arizona, as expected. Because the Arizona race was a special election to fill the unexpired term of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain’s, U.S. Senator-elect Mark Kelly (D) will take office in late November, during the current Senate session.
In the North Carolina senate race, incumbent U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R) leads by slightly more than 95,000 votes, with 97% of the vote counted.
In Georgia, both Senate seats were on the ballot this year. U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s (R) term expires, and he is seeking another term. He leads with 49.8% of the vote over his nearest opponent. However, Georgia law requires that a winner must receive a majority of the votes (50.1%) or enter a runoff with his nearest competitor. The other Georgia seat, held by appointed U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), is a special election to fill the unexpired term of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R), who resigned over the summer due to bad health. Neither candidate received half of the vote, so this seat is also headed to a runoff on Jan. 5, 2021.
