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The 2000 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 7, 2000, to select the next U.S. Senator from Missouri. Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft lost re-election to a second term to Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan despite Carnahan's death in a plane crash 20 days before Election Day (due to the timing of Carnahan’s death, state law did not allow his name to be replaced on the ballot). Newly-inaugurated governor Roger Wilson appointed Mel Carnahan's widow Jean Carnahan to fill the seat pending a 2002 special election.
As of 2024, this is the only time a deceased person has won a U.S. Senate election, as well as the last time that a party flipped a Senate seat in a state that flipped against them in the simultaneous presidential election.
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