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Updated Nov. 3, 2014
Current outlook: Republicans net eight Senate seats
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Note: Bolded candidate names indicate likely frontrunner for a nomination if there is one. *Indicates a special election.
| State | Incumbent | Possible Primary Challengers | Major Party Opposition | Third party | Party Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | Mark Begich (Running) |
– Ex-State Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan | – Veteran Mark Fish (Lib) – Ted Gianoutsos (Ind) |
Leans R | |
| AL | Jeff Sessions (Running) |
Safe R | |||
| AR | Mark Pryor (Running) |
– Rep. Tom Cotton | – Mark Swaney (Grn) – Nathan LaFrance (Lib) |
Likely R | |
| CO | Mark Udall (Running) |
– Rep. Cory Gardner | – Gaylon Kent (Lib) – Bill Hammons (Unity) – Neurosurgeon Steve Shogan (Ind) – Raúl Acosta (Ind) |
Leans R | |
| DE | Chris Coons (Running) |
– Businessman Kevin Wade | – Andrew Groff (Grn) | Safe D | |
| GA | Saxby Chambliss (Retiring) |
-Businessman David Perdue | – Non-profit exec. Michelle Nunn | – Ex-Flowery Branch council member Amanda Swafford (Lib) | Leans R |
| HI* | Brian Schatz (Running) |
– Ex-state Rep. Cam Cavasso | – Michael Kokoski (Lib) | Safe D | |
| IA | Tom Harkin (Retiring) |
– Rep. Bruce Braley | – State Sen. Joni Ernst | – Douglas Butzier (Lib) – Bob Quast (Ind) – Rick Stewart (Ind) – Ruth Smith (Ind) |
Leans R |
| ID | Jim Risch (Running) |
– Atty Nels Mitchell | Safe R | ||
| IL | Dick Durbin (Running) |
– State Sen. Jim Oberweis | – Sharon Hansen (Lib) | Safe D | |
| KS | Pat Roberts (Running) |
– Shawnee County DA Chad Taylor (withdrew) | – Businessman Greg Orman (Ind) – Quality assurance inspector Randall Batson (Lib) |
Leans R | |
| KY | Mitch McConnell (Running) |
– Sec. of State Alison Lundergan Grimes | – Police officer David Patterson (Lib) | Likely R | |
| LA | Mary Landrieu (Running) |
– Wayne Ables – Vallian Senegal – William Waymire |
– Rep. Bill Cassidy – Ret. Air Force Col. Rob Maness – Thomas Clements |
– Brannon McMorris (Lib) | Leans R |
| MA | Ed Markey (Running) | – Hopkinton Selectman Brian Herr | Safe D | ||
| ME | Susan Collins (Running) |
Ex-Exec. Director of Maine ACLU Shenna Bellows | Safe R | ||
| MI | Carl Levin (Retiring) |
– Rep. Gary Peters | – Ex-Sec. of State Terri Lynn Land | – Jim Fulner (Lib) – Chris Wahmhoff (Grn) – Richard Matkin (UST) |
Likely D |
| MN | Al Franken (Running) |
– Businessman Mike McFadden | – Steve Carlson (Ind) – Heather Johnson (Lib) |
Likely D | |
| MS | Thad Cochran (Running) |
– Ex-Rep. Travis Childers | – Shawn O’Hara (Ref) | Safe R | |
| MT | John Walsh (Retiring) |
State Rep. Amanda Curtis | – Rep. Steve Daines | – Former MT Secretary of State nominee Roger Roots (Lib) | Safe R |
| NC | Kay Hagan (Running) |
– State House Speaker Thom Tillis | – 2002 candidate Sean Haugh (Lib) | Leans D | |
| NE | Mike Johanns (Retiring) |
– Midland University President Ben Sasse | – Atty. David Domina | – Rancher Jim Jenkins (Ind) – Todd Watson (Ind) |
Safe R |
| NH | Jeanne Shaheen (Running) |
– Ex-MA Sen. Scott Brown | Leans D | ||
| NJ | Cory Booker (Running) |
– 1978 nominee Jeff Bell | – Joseph Baratelli (Lib) – Hank Schroeder (Ind) – Jeff Boss (Ind) – Antonio Sabas (Ind) – Eugen Lavergne |
Safe D | |
| NM | Tom Udall (Running) |
– Former state party Chairman Allen Weh | Safe D | ||
| OK | Jim Inhofe (Running) |
– Financial adviser Matt Silverstein | – Aaron DeLozier (Ind) – Ray Woods (Ind) – Joan Farr (Ind) |
Safe R | |
| OK* | Tom Coburn (Resigning) |
– Rep. James Lankford | – State Sen. Connie Johnson | – Mark Beard (Ind) | Safe R |
| OR | Jeff Merkley (Running) |
– Physician Monica Wehby | – Peace activist Christina Lugo (Grn) – Mike Montchalin (Lib) – James Leuenberger (Con) |
Likely D | |
| RI | Jack Reed (Running) |
2008 & 2010 RI-2 nominee Mark Zaccari | Safe D | ||
| SC | Lindsey Graham (Running) |
– State Sen. Brad Hutto | – Ex-state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel (Ind) – SC Libertarian Party chair Victor Kocher (Lib) |
Safe R | |
| SC* | Tim Scott (Running) |
– Richland County Councilwoman Joyce Dickerson | – Ex-CPO of the American Red Cross Jill Bossi (American) | Safe R | |
| SD | Tim Johnson (Retiring) |
– 1996 House candidate Rick Weiland | – Ex-Gov. Mike Rounds | – Ex-Sen. Larry Pressler (Ind) – 2010 GOP Gov. candidate Gordon Howie (Ind) |
Likely R |
| TN | Lamar Alexander (Running) |
– Atty Gordon Ball | – Joe Wilmoth (Const) – Martin Pleasant (Grn) – Tom Emerson (Ind) – Edmund Gauthier (Ind) – Joshua James (Ind) – Danny Page (Ind) – Bartholomew Phillips (Ind) – C. Salekin (Ind) – Eric Schechter (Ind) – Rick Tyler (Ind) |
Safe R | |
| TX | John Cornyn (Running) |
– Physician David Alameel | – Rebecca Paddock (Lib) – Emily Sanchez (Grn) |
Safe R | |
| VA | Mark Warner (Running) |
– Ex-RNC chair Ed Gillespie | – 2013 Gov. candidate Robert Sarvis (Lib) | Likely D | |
| WV | Jay Rockefeller (Retiring) |
– Sec. of State Natalie Tennant | – Rep. Shelley Moore Capito | – Ex-VA Del. John Buckley (Lib) – Bob Henry Baber (Mtn) – Phil Hudok (Const) |
Safe R |
| WY | Mike Enzi (Running) |
– Former Catholic priest Charlie Hardy | – Joseph Porambo (Lib) – Curt Gottshall (Ind) |
Safe R |
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