Elections for the United States Senate were held on November 7, 2006, with 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate being contested. Senators are elected for six-year terms, with one third of the Senate seats up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2006 runs from January 3, 2007, until January 3, 2013. Senators who were elected in 2000 were seeking reelection or retiring in 2006. The Senate election was part of the Democratic sweep of the 2006 elections, in which no Congressional or gubernatorial seat held by a Democrat was won by a Republican. Democratic candidates defeated six Republican incumbents: ⁕Jim Talent ⁕Conrad Burns ⁕Mike DeWine ⁕Rick Santorum ⁕Lincoln Chafee ⁕George Allen Incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman lost an August Democratic primary challenge but won re-election as an independent. Democrats kept their two open seats in Minnesota and Maryland, and Republicans held onto their lone open seat in Tennessee. In Vermont, Bernie Sanders, an independent, was elected to the seat left open by independent Senator Jim Jeffords. In the 2006 election, two new female Senators were elected to seats previously held by men. This brought the total number of female senators to an all-time high of 16. Wikipedia [ - ]

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