U.S. Senate election, 1954

The U.S. Senate election, 1954 was an election for the United States Senate which
was a midterm election in the first term of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. Eisenhower's Republican party lost a net of one seat to the Democratic opposition. This small change was enough to give Democrats control of the chamber.

Democrats defeated incumbents John S. Cooper (R-KY), Homer Ferguson (R-MI), Ernest S. Brown (R-NV), and Guy Cordon (R-OR), and took an open seat in Wyoming. Republicans took the seats of incumbents Guy M. Gillette (D-IA) and Thomas A. Burke (D-OH), and took open seats in Colorado and Idaho.

Senate contests in 1954

¹ special election held due to election of Richard M. Nixon (R-CA) to the office of Vice President in 1952

² special election held due to death of Hugh Butler (R-NE)

³ special election held due to death of Patrick A. McCarran (D-NV)

⁴ special election held due to death of Charles W. Tobey (R-NH)

⁵ special election held due to death of Clyde Roark Hoey (D-NC)

⁶ special election held due to death of Robert A. Taft (R-OH)