U.S. Senate seats up for election in 2012
While every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is up for grabs every two years, only one-third of all Senate seats are offered up to the meat-grinder of popular elections every other year. CDN has compiled a list of every seat that will be eligible for challenge in the 2012 election.
Senators that are retiring
- Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
- Kay Bailey Hitchison (R-TX)
- Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
- Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
- Ben Nelson (D-NE)
- Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
- Kent Conrad (D-ND)
- Jim Webb (D-VA)
- Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Senators Up for Re-Election
- Richard Lugar (R-IN)
- Olympia Snowe (R-MN)
- Scott Brown (R-Mass)
- Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi)
- Dean Heller (R-NV)
- Bob Corker (R-TN)
- Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
- Tom Carper (D-DE)
- Bill Nelson (D-FL)
- Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn)
- Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri)
- Jon Tester (D-MT)
- Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
- Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Joe Manchin (D-WV)
