§ 1. — Time for election of Senators.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC1]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 1--ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 1. Time for election of Senators
At the regular election held in any State next preceding the
expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent
such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress
is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said
State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on
the 3d day of January next thereafter.
(June 4, 1914, ch. 103, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 384; June 5, 1934, ch. 390,
Sec. 3, 48 Stat. 879.)
Amendments
1934--Act June 5, 1934, substituted ``3d day of January'' for
``fourth day of March''.
Constitutional Provisions
The first section of Amendment XX to the Constitution provides in
part: ``* * * the terms of Senators and Representatives [shall end] at
noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would
have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their
successors shall then begin.''
Time for election of Senators, see Const. Art. I, Sec. 4, cl. 1.
Vacancies in the Senate, see Const. Amend. XVII.