these elections are notable as this was the closest it has been since the passage of the seventeenth amendment where the winning party in almost every senate election mirrored the winning party for their state in the presidential election with kentucky being the only senate race to not mirror their presidential result. no other senate election cycle in a presidential year would come close to repeating this feat until 2016. in those elections, all senate seats mirrored their state's presidential result. coincidentally it would be this same class of senate seats, class 3.