Projected outcomes of state senate elections, 2010

2010 State senate elections
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        Projected outcomes of state house elections • Projected outcomes of state legislative elections • November 2, 2010 election results

2010 State Senate Races

Democrats Before election: 28 Predicted after election: 21	Toss-up 6	Republicans Before election: 20 Predicted after election: 22

15 Safe or Not Up	3	3	6	2	4	16 Safe or Not Up

Since one state senate is nonpartisan, a political party is defined as having the majority of state senates if it has at least 25. The Democratic Party needs to win all the safe, likely and leans Democratic, and 3 of the toss-up states, to get to 25. The Republican Party needs to win all the safe, likely and leans Republican, and 5 of the toss-up states, to get to 25.

Safe D	Likely Dem.	Leans Dem.	Toss Up	Leans GOP	Likely GOP	Safe R
Arkansas (D) California (D) Connecticut (D) Delaware (D) Hawaii (D) Maryland (D) Massachusetts (D) Rhode Island (D) Vermont (D) West Virginia (D) Not up: Louisiana Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico Virginia	Illinois (D) Minnesota (D) Nevada (D)	Colorado (D) Oregon (D) Washington (D)	Alabama (D) Maine (D) New Hampshire (D) New York (D) North Carolina (D) Wisconsin (D)	Possible R Pick-ups: Alaska (Split) Iowa (D)	Kentucky (R) Michigan: (R) Montana (R) Tennessee: (R)	Arizona (R) Florida (R) Georgia (R) Idaho (R) Indiana (R) Missouri (R) North Dakota (R) Ohio (R) Oklahoma (R) Pennsylvania (R) South Dakota: (R) Texas (R) Utah (R) Wyoming (R) Not up: Kansas South Carolina

Partisan dominance in state senates heading into the 2010 state legislative elections