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State
| Incumbent
| Party
| Status
| Candidates
| | Arizona | Dennis DeConcini | Democratic | Re-elected, 56.9% | Pete Dunn (Republican) 40.3% | | California | S. I. Hayakawa | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Pete Wilson (Republican) 51.5% Jerry Brown (Democratic) 44.8% | | Connecticut | Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | Republican | Re-elected, 50.4% | Toby Moffett (Democratic) 46.1% | | Delaware | William V. Roth, Jr. | Republican | Re-elected, 55.2% | David N. Levinson (Democratic) 44.2% | | Florida | Lawton Chiles | Democratic | Re-elected, 61.7% | Van B. Poole (Republican) 38.3% | | Hawaii | Spark Matsunaga | Democratic | Re-elected, 80.1% | Clarence J. Brown (Republican) 17.0% | | Indiana | Richard Lugar | Republican | Re-elected, 53.8% | Floyd Fithian (Democratic) 45.6% | | Maine | George Mitchell | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.9% | David F. Emery (Republican) 39.1% | | Maryland | Paul Sarbanes | Democratic | Re-elected, 63.5% | Lawrence Hogan (Republican) 36.5% | | Massachusetts | Ted Kennedy | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.8% | Ray Shamie (Republican) 38.3% | | Michigan | Donald W. Riegle, Jr. | Democratic | Re-elected, 57.7% | Philip Ruppe (Republican) 40.9% | | Minnesota | David Durenberger | Republican | Re-elected, 52.6% | Mark Dayton (Democratic) 46.6% | | Mississippi | John C. Stennis | Democratic | Re-elected, 64.2% | Haley Barbour (Republican) 35.8% | | Missouri | John Danforth | Republican | Re-elected, 50.8% | Harriett Woods (Democratic) 49.1% | | Montana | John Melcher | Democratic | Re-elected, 54.4% | Larry Williams (Republican) 41.7% | | Nebraska | Edward Zorinsky | Democratic | Re-elected, 66.6% | Jim Keck (Republican) 28.5% | | Nevada | Howard Cannon | Democratic | Defeated, 47.7% | Chic Hecht (Republican) 50.1% | | New Jersey | Nicholas F. Brady | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Frank Lautenberg (Democratic) 50.9% Millicent Fenwick (Republican) 47.8% | | New Mexico | Harrison Schmitt | Republican | Defeated, 46.2% | Jeff Bingaman (Democratic) 53.8% | | New York | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Democratic | Re-elected, 65.1% | Florence M. Sullivan (Republican) 34.2% | | North Dakota | Quentin N. Burdick | Democratic | Re-elected, 62.8% | Gene Knorr (Republican) 34.0% Anna B. Bourgois (Independent) 3.1% | | Ohio | Howard Metzenbaum | Democratic | Re-elected, 56.7% | Paul E. Pfeifer (Republican) 41.1% | | Pennsylvania | H. John Heinz III | Republican | Re-elected, 59.3% | Cyril Wecht (Democratic) 39.2% | | Rhode Island | John Chafee | Republican | Re-elected, 51.2% | Julius C. Michaelson (Democratic) 48.8% | | Tennessee | Jim Sasser | Democratic | Re-elected, 61.9% | Robin Beard (Republican) 38.1% | | Texas | Lloyd Bentsen | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.6% | James M. Collins (Republican) 40.5% | | Utah | Orrin Hatch | Republican | Re-elected, 58.3% | Ted Wilson (Democratic) 41.3% | | Vermont | Robert Stafford | Republican | Re-elected, 50.3% | James A. Guest (Democratic) 47.2% | | Virginia | Harry F. Byrd, Jr. | Independent | Retired, Republican victory | Paul S. Trible, Jr. (Republican) 51.2% Richard Joseph Davis (Democratic) 48.8% | | Washington | Henry M. Jackson | Democratic | Re-elected, 68.9% | Doug Jewett (Republican) 24.3% King Lysen (Independent) 5.3% Jesse Chiang (Libertarian) 1.5% |
| West Virginia | Robert Byrd | Democratic | Re-elected, 68.5% | Cleve Benedict (Republican) 30.8% | | Wisconsin | William Proxmire | Democratic | Re-elected, 63.6% | Scott McCallum (Republican) 34.1% | | Wyoming | Malcolm Wallop | Republican | Re-elected, 56.7% | Rodger McDaniel (Democratic) 43.3% |
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