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- United_States_Senate_elections,_1808_and_1809 abstract "The United States Senate election of 1808 was an election which had the Federalist Party gain one seat in the United States Senate, and which coincided with the 1808 Presidential election. The Federalists had gone into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats (6 out of 34, or 18%) that even if they had won every election, they would have still remained a minority caucus.As this election was prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.".