Election Passport is pleased to present the results of upper house or Senate elections from around the world.
This site is funded in part by American University’s School of Public Affairs
I am grateful to the School of Public Affairs and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies at American University for providing funding to make this data collection possible. My thanks to Arunjana Das, Ramón Galiñanes, Avi-Yona Israel, and Ranu Nath for their research assistance and Anders Rosen for his kind website support. These data are offered free to everyone with the sole requirement being that you cite it properly and send copies of any work produced utilizing it to dlublin at american.edu.
Citation: David Lublin. “Election Passport: Senates.” School of Public Affairs, American University. http://www.electionpassport.com/senates.
David Lublin, Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, created Election Passport in 2013. The recipient of two grants from the National Science Foundation and a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund, David has authored three books, including The Paradox of Representation and The Republican South, published by Princeton. Most recently, Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization, and Ethnoregional Parties, was published by Oxford in December 2014. A list of his past journal articles and other activities can be found at davidlublin.com.
Countrywide totals reported elsewhere do not always comport with the results here due to data discrepancies.
| Place | Election Years | Data |
Codebook |
| Argentina | 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 | AR | AR |
| Australia | 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 | AU | AU |
| Belgium | 1946, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2010 | BE | BE |
| Bhutan | 2007-8, 2013 | BT | BT |
| Bolivia | 1979, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2014 | BO | BO |
| Brazil | 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 | BR | BR |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 2010, 2015 | MM | MM |
| Chile | 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 | CL | CL |
| Czechia | 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016 | CZ | CZ |
| Dominican Republic | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2016 | DR | DR |
| Haiti | 2000, 2015-16, 2016-17 | HT | HT |
| Italy | 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2013 | IT | IT |
| Liberia | 2005, 2012, 2014 | LR | LR |
| Mexico | 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2012 | MX | MX |
| Nigeria | 2011 | NG | NG |
| Palau | 2008, 2012 | PW | PW |
| Paraguay | 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013 | PY | PY |
| Poland | 1991, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015 | PL | PL |
| Romania | 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 | RO | RO |
| Spain | 1977, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015 | ES | ES |
| Switzerland | 1967, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 | CH | CH |
| Thailand | 2008, 2014 | TH | TH |
| United States | From the beginnings of election by popular vote through 2016, including special elections. | US | US |
| Uruguay | 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 | UY | UY |
| Zimbabwe | 2005, 2008, 2013 | ZW | ZW |