2 U.S.C. § 1 : US Code - Section 1: Time for election of Senators

Search 2 U.S.C. § 1 : US Code - Section 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.