1857 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

1857 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

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Majority vote of each house needed to win
Nominee Charles Sumner Party Republican Senate unanimous[1][2] Percentage unanimous House 333 Percentage 96.52%
Senator before election Charles Sumner Free Soil Elected Senator Charles Sumner Republican

The 1857 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1857. Incumbent Charles Sumner was re-elected to a second term in office as a member of the Republican Party. Sumner was elected in 1851 by a single vote after twenty-five inconclusive ballots by a coalition of Free-Soil and Democratic legislators. He had since become a founding member of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

At the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a majority vote of each separate house of the Massachusetts General Court: the House and the Senate.

During the election, Sumner was still recovering from a brutal attack by a fellow member of Congress, Preston Brooks. He would not permanently return to the Senate until 1859.