1994 reversed

[Gustaf]

If my counting is correct, the Democrats have now reclaimed 10 seats in the 2006 class of senators since 1994, just as many as they lost that year. Of course, they've lost 3 seats in each of the other classes since then, which is they have a slim majority and not the large they had upto 1994. So, it would be interesting to see which seats gained by the GOP in 1994 did not switch and which did. I have so far:

Dem-->Rep: Texas, Tennessee
Rep-->Dem: Montana
Dem-->Rep-->Dem: Michigan, Ohio, Washington, Pennsylvania, Missouri (?), Delaware (?)
Rep-->Dem-->Rep-->Dem: Virginia (?)

So, what about Rhode Island, Vermont? (and I'm counting Sanders, Jeffords and Lieberman as Democrats for these purposes).

[Gustaf]

I counted Democrats gaining 4 seats in 2000 (MO, MN, WA, DE, MI-VA), 1 seat in 2001 (VT) and then 5 in 2006 (VA, MT, PA, OH, RI).

But my original count of 10 probably includes Shelby in Alabama who is not in the class. I didn't know about those other two being up at the same time though. And  included Texas because the GOP gained it in a special election the year before, no?

Anyway, I know that the aftermath of 1994 meant the senate going from 57-43 Democrat to 53-47 Republican, a net change of 10 seats.