1939 United States elections
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The following is an overview of elections in the United States held in 1939.
Federal-level elected officers are United States senator and United States representative. These are only held in even-numbered years, except to fill a vacated seat.
In 1939, there were no such special elections for the Senate, and ten such elections for the House of Representatives. All ten of the newly elected representatives were of the same party as the representative who had previously occupied the vacated seat (eight Democrats, two Republicans). The most historically significant was the election of Estes Kefauver, who became a national figure and won most of the 1952 Democratic presidential primaries.