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- United_States_Senate_elections,_1812_and_1813 abstract "The United States Senate elections of 1812 and 1813 were elections that, coinciding with President James Madison's re-election, had the Democratic-Republican Party lose two seats but still retain an overwhelming majority in the United States Senate. As in recent elections, the minority Federalists had gone into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats (6 out of 36, or 16.7%) that they had won every one of the elections, they would still not have controlled a majority.As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.".
- Q5510738 abstract "The United States Senate elections of 1812 and 1813 were elections that, coinciding with President James Madison's re-election, had the Democratic-Republican Party lose two seats but still retain an overwhelming majority in the United States Senate. As in recent elections, the minority Federalists had gone into the elections with such a small share of Senate seats (6 out of 36, or 16.7%) that they had won every one of the elections, they would still not have controlled a majority.As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by State legislatures.".