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Columns to include in the list: It has been agreed by consensus from an RfC that the columns included in the list are: Party Color (narrow column w/o a title), State, Portrait, Name, Born, Occupation(s), Previous office(s), Assumed office, and Seat up (or Term ends).

Length of RfC: 77 days - Participants: 12

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The map shows 1 Independent Senator from Ohio???

Whoever uploaded the map today, the map shows 1 Independent Senator who caucuses with the Democrats? Pray tell who would that be? Name your authority. Name a source. What a devastating blunder. A horrific mistruth and error. Ohio has 2 Republican Senators, Jon Husted was sworn in today. But when the seat was vacant, tell me WHO was the "Independent who caucuses with the Democrats" from Ohio? Who was that? Please fix this. Its untrue. Its a blatant lie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.86.68.146 (talk) 01:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some of these photos need to be updated

Some of the photos used here for the Senators are quite old. In particular, the one of Susan Collins is from 15-30 years ago. A lot of the names could use newer or updated photos next to their name. BreoncoUSA1 (talk) 21:03, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect page

I have an issue with this page being redirected to "List of United States Senators". In my opinion, that page name should be for a list of every senator ever. Does anyone else think that this redirect should be removed, or should I let it stay? PoliticallyPassionateGamer (talk) 22:08, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Total number

Affiliation Members Republican Party 49 Democratic Party 50 Independent 2[a] Total 100

This adds up to 101. Who's duplicated or is the VP added to the count? MartinezMD (talk) 16:27, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sinema

Kyrsten Sinema hasn't announced 'which' party she'll caucus with. GoodDay (talk) 02:02, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit WV to be 1 ind caucusing w dems and 1 republican

joe manchin left the dem party to be independent Sratcao42 (talk) 13:13, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This should now be changed to two Republicans. 50.73.22.177 (talk) 20:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Occupations v. Previous elective offices ordering

Is there a reason why occupations seem to be ordered from oldest to most recent (for instance, Mark Kelly's goes from "U.S. Naval officer" to "Americans for Responsible Solutions co-founder") while elective offices begins with most recent to oldest?

Election updates

Would someone be up for updating the Senate classes table under "list of senators by class"? I think it is showing the Senate composition before the 2024 election. 50.5.107.104 (talk) 00:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wait until Noon EST, 3 January 2025

Updates are premature. The new Senate terms don't begin until Noon EST, fwiw. But, I suppose with less than an hour to go, I'm swimming upstream on this. GoodDay (talk) 16:06, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Table not sorting correctly

The table sometimes sorts incorrectly on the column "Assumed office." Whether this happens or not seems to be depend on what prior sorting has been done. Ishboyfay (talk) 02:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

West Virginia

Shouldn't the vacancy be placed below Capito? GoodDay (talk) 20:36, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]