1970 United States Senate elections

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox election The 1970 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate. It took place on November 3, with the 33 seats of Class 1 contested in regular elections. Special elections were also held to fill vacancies. These races occurred in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term as president. The Democrats lost a net of three seats, while the Republicans and the Conservative Party of New York picked up one net seat each, and former Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected as an independent.

This was the first time that Republicans gained Senate seats while losing House seats, which also occurred in 2018. This also occurred for Democrats in 1914, 1962, and 2022.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

This was the most recent election in which a third party won a seat in the Senate until 2006. Template:As of, this is also the most recent cycle in which Democrats won Senate elections in Utah and Wyoming, and the most recent in which Republicans won a Senate election in Hawaii.

Since the deaths of Lowell Weicker and James L. Buckley in 2023, this is the latest Senate election cycle where all first-elected members are deceased.

Results summary

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Democratic	I	C	Republican

Parties		style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	Total
		Democratic	Republican	Conservative	Independent	Other
Last elections (1968)		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 58	42	0	0	0	100
Before these elections		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 57	43	0	0	0	100
Not up		32	Template:Party shading/Republican | 33	—	0	—	65
Up		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 25	10	—	—	—	35
Template:Small		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 25	8	—	—	—	33
Template:Small		0	Template:Party shading/Republican | 1	—	0	—	1
Template:Small		0	Template:Party shading/Republican | 1	—	0	—	1
Incumbent retired		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 3	1	—	0	—	4
	Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 2	1	—	—	—	3
	Template:Small	colspan=2 Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Decrease 1 Democrat replaced by Template:Increase 1 Republican	—	—	—	1
	Result	2	2	0	0	0	4
Incumbent ran		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 22Template:EfnTemplate:Efn	9Template:Efn	—	—	—	31
	Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 17	6Template:Efn	—	—	—	23
	Template:Small	colspan="4" Template:Party shading/Independent | Template:Decrease 1 Democrat re-elected as an Template:Increase Independent	—	1
	Template:Small	Template:Decrease 2 Republicans replaced by Template:Increase 2 Democrats Template:Decrease 3 Democrats replaced by Template:Increase 3 Republicans Template:Decrease 1 Republican replaced by Template:Increase 1 Conservative			—	—	6
	Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 1	0	—	—	—	1
	Result	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 20	9	1	1	0	31
Total elected		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 22	11	1	1	0	35
Net gain/loss		Template:Decrease 3	Template:Increase 1	Template:Increase 1	Template:Increase 1	Template:Steady	2
Nationwide vote		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 25,435,247	19,373,972Template:Efn	2,183,572	516,149	1,049,884	48,558,824
	Share	Template:Party shading/Democratic | 52.38%	39.90%	4.50%	1.06%	2.16%	100%
Result		Template:Party shading/Democratic | 54	44	1	1	0	100

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Getting out the vote

President Nixon said that rather than violent protests, the best way for the American public to get their opinion heard was by voting:

The most powerful four letter word is a clean word, it's the most powerful four letter word in the history of men, it's called vote. V-O-T-E. My friends, I say that the answer to those that engage in disruption, to those that shout their filthy slogans, to those that try to shout down speakers, it's not to answer in kind, but go to the polls in election day, and in the quiet of that ballot box, stand up and be counted, the great silent majority of America.

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Gains, losses, and holds

Retirements

One Republican and three Democrats retired instead of seeking re-election.

State	Senator	Replaced by
Delaware	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname
Florida	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname
Minnesota	Template:Party shading/DFL | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/DFL | Template:Sortname
Ohio	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname

Defeats

One Republican and four Democrats sought re-election but lost in the primary or general election. One Republican sought election to finish the unexpired term but lost in the special election and one Republican sought election to a full term but lost in the general election.

State	Senator	Replaced by
California	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname
Connecticut	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname
Illinois	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname
Maryland	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname
New York	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Conservative (New York) | Template:Sortname
Tennessee	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname
Texas	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname

Independent gain

One Democrat ran as an Independent in the general election.

State	Senator	Replaced by
Virginia	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Independent | Template:Sortname

Post-election changes

State	Senator	Replaced by
Georgia	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname
Louisiana	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Template:Sortname
Vermont	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Template:Sortname

Change in composition

Before the elections

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After the elections

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Key:	align=center Template:Party shading/Conservative (New York) | C# Conservative (New York) align=center Template:Party shading/Democratic | D# Democratic align=center Template:Party shading/Republican | R# Republican align=center Template:Party shading/Independent | I# Independent

Race summary

Special elections during the 91st Congress

In these special elections, the winner was seated during 1970 or before January 3, 1971; ordered by election date, then state.

State	Incumbent			Results	Candidates
	Senator	Party	Electoral history
Alaska (Class 2)	Ted Stevens	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1968 Template:Small	Interim appointee elected November 3, 1970.	Template:Plainlist
Illinois (Class 3)	Ralph Tyler Smith	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1969 Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Interim appointee lost election. New senator elected November 3, 1970. Democratic gain.	Template:Plainlist

Elections leading to the next Congress

In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1971; ordered by state.

All of the elections involved the Class 1 seats.

State	Incumbent			Results	Candidates
	Senator	Party	Electoral history
Arizona	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
California	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1964 1964 Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Incumbent lost re-election. New senator elected. Democratic gain Incumbent resigned January 1, 1971 to give successor preferential seniority. Winner appointed January 2, 1971.	Template:Plainlist
Connecticut	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Republican | Incumbent lost renomination, then ran as an Independent candidate but lost re-election. New senator elected. Republican gain.	Template:Plainlist
Delaware	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1946 1952 1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Republican/Hold | Incumbent retired. New senator elected. Republican hold. Incumbent resigned December 31, 1970 to give successor preferential seniority. Winner appointed January 1, 1971.	Template:Plainlist
Florida	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1946 Template:Small 1946 1952 1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Democratic/Hold | Incumbent retired. New senator elected. Democratic hold.	Template:Plainlist
Hawaii	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1959 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Indiana	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Maine	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Maryland	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1964	Template:Party shading/Republican | Incumbent lost re-election. New senator elected. Republican gain.	Template:Plainlist
Massachusetts	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts|1962 Template:Small]] 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Michigan	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Minnesota	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/DFL | DFL<ref>The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is affiliated nationally with the Democratic Party (United States).</ref>	1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Democratic/Hold | Incumbent retired. New senator elected. DFL hold.	Template:Plainlist
Mississippi	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1947 United States Senate special election in Mississippi|1947 Template:Small]] 1952 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Missouri	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1952 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Montana	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1952 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Nebraska	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	[[1954 United States Senate special elections in Nebraska|1954 Template:Small]] 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Nevada	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
New Jersey	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
New Mexico	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1964 United States Senate special election in New Mexico|1964 Template:Small]] 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
New York	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1968 Template:Small	Template:Party shading/Conservative (New York) | Interim appointee lost election. New senator elected. Conservative gain.	Template:Plainlist
North Dakota	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/North Dakota Democratic-NPL | Democratic-NPL	[[1960 United States Senate special election in North Dakota|1960 Template:Small]] 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Ohio	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Republican | Incumbent retired. New senator elected. Republican gain.	Template:Plainlist
Pennsylvania	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Rhode Island	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1950 United States Senate special election in Rhode Island|1950 Template:Small]] 1952 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Tennessee	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1952 1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Republican | Incumbent lost re-election. New senator elected. Republican gain.	Template:Plainlist
Texas	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1957 United States Senate special election in Texas|1957 Template:Small]] 1958 1964	Template:Party shading/Democratic/Hold | Incumbent lost renomination. New senator elected. Democratic hold.	Template:Plainlist
Utah	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Vermont	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Virginia	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1965 Template:Small [[1966 United States Senate special election in Virginia|1966 Template:Small]]	Template:Party shading/Independent | Incumbent ran as an Independent and was re-elected. Independent gain.	Template:Plainlist
Washington	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1952 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
West Virginia	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Wisconsin	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	[[1957 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin|1957 Template:Small]] 1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist
Wyoming	Template:Sortname	Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	1958 1964	Incumbent re-elected.	Template:Plainlist

Closest races

Fourteen races had a margin of victory under 10%:

State	Party of winner	Margin
Indiana	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	0.2%
New York	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Conservative (New York) | Conservative (flip)	2.0%
Ohio	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican (flip)	2.2%
Maryland	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican (flip)	2.6%
Missouri	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	3.0%
Hawaii	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	3.2%
Tennessee	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican (flip)	3.9%
Nebraska	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	5.0%
New Mexico	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	5.7%
Pennsylvania	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican	6.0%
Texas	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	7.1%
Florida	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic	7.8%Template:Efn
Connecticut	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican (flip)	7.9%
California	data-sort-value=1 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic (flip)	9.6%

Alaska (special)

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Republican Ted Stevens was appointed December 24, 1968 to finish the term of Democrat Bob Bartlett, who had died in office. The open primary was held August 25, 1970, in which Stevens received 40,411 votes (55.91%), Key received 29,459 votes (23.94%), State senator Joe Josephson received 12,730 votes (18.22%) and Fritz Singer (R) received 1,349 votes (1.93%).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the November 3, 1970 special election to finish the term, he ran against the Democratic Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives Wendell P. Kay. Stevens easily won with almost 60% of the vote.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Arizona

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Incumbent Republican Paul Fannin decided to run for re-election to a second term, running unopposed in the Republican primary. Fannin defeated Democratic businessman Sam Grossman in the general election.

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California

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See alsoIn 1964, Republican actor George Murphy defeated Democrat and Lyndon B. Johnson's Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, in a close contest with about 52% of the vote. Murphy faced a primary challenge from billionaire Norton Simon, who took nearly 33% of the vote in the Republican primary. Democrats nominated John V. Tunney after a close-fought contest between Tunney and Representative George Brown Jr.

In the general election, Murphy lost re-election to Tunney by nearly ten points. Murphy's recent surgery and staunch support for the lingering Vietnam War worked against him, as did reports that he had continued to receive a salary from Technicolor after taking office.<ref name="Steinberg">Template:Cite news</ref> Tunney's successful Senate race in 1970 was reportedly the inspiration for the 1972 Robert Redford film The Candidate.<ref>Christensen, Terry, and Hass, Peter. Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films, p. 146</ref>Template:Election box begin no change Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box majority no change Template:Election box turnout no change Template:Election box gain with party link no change

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Connecticut

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Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr. defeated Democrat Joseph Duffey and incumbent Thomas J. Dodd who ran this time as an independent. Dodd entered the race at the last minute and split the Democratic vote, allowing Weicker to win with only 42% of the vote.

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Delaware

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Four-term Republican John J. Williams decided to retire, rather than run for re-election. Republican William Roth easily defeated Democrat Jacob Zimmerman by a margin of eighteen percentage points, and went on to serve thirty years in the Senate.

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Florida

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Incumbent Democrat Spessard Holland retired instead of seeking a fifth term. During the Democratic primary, former Governor C. Farris Bryant and State senator Lawton Chiles advanced to a run-off, having received more votes than Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Frederick H. Schultz, attorney Alcee Hastings, and State Representative Joel T. Daves, III. Chiles soundly defeated Bryant in the run-off election, scoring a major upset due to his comparatively small name recognition prior to the election. To acquire name recognition and media coverage, Chiles walked about Template:Convert across the state of Florida and was given the nickname "Walkin' Lawton".

The Republican primary exposed an in-party feud between Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. and U.S. Representative William C. Cramer. In the election, Cramer handily defeated G. Harrold Carswell and body shop owner George Balmer; the former was a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge favored by Kirk and had been rejected as a Supreme Court of the United States nominee a few months prior to the primary. Chiles won the election by a relatively small margin of 7.8%, receiving 902,438 votes against Cramer's 772,817 votes.

Incumbent Spessard Holland, who served in the Senate since 1946, decided to retire rather than seek a fifth term.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although the Democratic Party had dominated state elections since the Reconstruction Era, Claude R. Kirk Jr. and Edward Gurney, both Republicans, were elected senator and Governor in 1966 and 1968, respectively.<ref name="Cramer v. Kirk p. 403">"Cramer v. Kirk," p. 403</ref>

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Hawaii

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Illinois (special)

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A special election was held to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Everett Dirksen, who had died in office. Republican Ralph Tyler Smith had been appointed to fill the seat after Dirksen's death, and he lost the special election to Democrat Adlai Stevenson III.

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Indiana

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See alsoDemocrat Vance Hartke was first elected in 1958 over Republican Harold W. Handley with 56% of the vote. He won re-election in 1964 (a landslide year for Democrats) with a lower share of 54%.

In 1970, he faced his closest contest to date against Republican Representative Richard L. Roudebush. Unlike voters in Hawaii, Indiana voters generally supported the Vietnam War, but Hartke opposed the war. This led Roudebush to run a close race that ultimately was decided after a recount. Hartke won by just about 4,200 votes.

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Maine

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Maryland

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See also Template:Infobox electionIn 1970, Republican J. Glenn Beall ran for re-election to a third term in the U.S. Senate but was defeated by Democrat Joseph Tydings in a landslide, 63-37%. Tydings ran for re-election to a second term in 1970.

Republicans nominated Representative J. Glenn Beall Jr., the son of J. Glenn Beall. Tydings faced a primary challenge from segregationist George P. Mahoney but won with 53% of the vote. However, Republican Glenn Beall Jr. won the general election with nearly 51% of the vote to 48% for Tydings. He would serve just one term, losing in 1976 to Democrat Paul Sarbanes. Template:Election box begin no change Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box majority no change Template:Election box turnout no change Template:Election box gain with party link no change

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Massachusetts

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See also Incumbent Democrat Ted Kennedy defeated his challengers. This was Kennedy's first election run since the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. Kennedy won 62.2%, down from 74.3% that he won in the previous election in 1964; this decrease was due to numerous factors including Chappaquiddick and a far more favorable environment for the Republicans than the Democratic landslide year of 1964.

The Republican nominee was Josiah Spaulding, a businessman and Republican leader in Massachusetts. He led a group of delegates at the 1968 Republican National Convention who unsuccessfully sought to nominate Nelson A. Rockefeller over Richard Nixon.<ref>Josiah Spaulding at ourcampaigns.com</ref>

Other candidates were Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) and Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition), a former Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, and 1966. He was the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1948 and 1956. In 1964, he was the Prohibition Party's candidate for vice-president of the United States.<ref>Mark R. Shaw at ourcampaigns.com</ref>

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Michigan

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Minnesota

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Incumbent Democrat Eugene McCarthy retired instead of seeking a third term. Former Democratic U.S. senator, Vice President and 1968 presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey defeated Republican U.S. Representative Clark MacGregor.

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Mississippi

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Missouri

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See alsoIncumbent Democrat Stuart Symington was originally elected in 1952 over Republican James P. Kem with 54% of the vote. He won re-election in landslide victories with 66% of the vote in 1958 and 1964. He ran for a fourth term in 1970.

Symington faced little primary opposition. Republican Missouri Attorney General John Danforth won the Republican primary. In the general election, Symington led in polling, but Danforth closed the gap during the campaign and ran closely against Symington. Symington defeated Danforth 51-48%. This would be Symington's closest election to the U.S. Senate, and Danforth would succeed him in 1976, serving for three terms. Template:Election box begin no change Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box majority no change Template:Election box turnout no change Template:Election box hold with party link no change

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Montana

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Democratic incumbent Mike Mansfield, the Senate Majority Leader who was first elected to the Senate in 1952, and was re-elected in 1958 and 1964, ran for re-election. Mansfield won the primary against several opponents, and advanced to the general election, where he was opposed by Harold E. Wallace, a sporting goods salesman and the Republican nominee. While his margin of victory decreased slightly from 1964, Mansfield still managed to defeat Wallace overwhelmingly, winning his fourth and (what would turn out to be his) final term in the Senate.

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Nebraska

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See also The incumbent Republican Roman Hruska was re-elected.

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Nevada

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Democrat Howard Cannon, the incumbent since 1959, won re-election to a third term over William Raggio, the Washoe County District Attorney.

In the Senate, Cannon was known as a moderate in the Democratic Party. He served as chairman of several committees, including the rules committee and the inaugural arrangements committee. Cannon was nearly defeated for re-election in 1964 by Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest election in history. However, he became more popular over the next few years and defeated D.A. William Raggio, whose 1970 senate campaign began his long political career. Raggio ran for the Nevada Senate in 1972 and won. He then served there for decades to come.

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New Jersey

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New Mexico

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Incumbent Democrat Joseph Montoya successfully ran for re-election to a second term, defeating Republican Anderson Carter.

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New York

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Incumbent Republican Charles Goodell, who was recently appointed to the seat by Governor Nelson Rockefeller after senator Bobby Kennedy (D) was assassinated, ran for a full term, but was defeated by the Conservative Party of New York nominee James L. Buckley. Other candidates included: Richard Ottinger, U.S. Congressman (1965–1971, 1975–1985), Kevin P. McGovern, Paul O'Dwyer, Former New York City Council Member from Manhattan, Ted Sorensen, Former Advisor and Speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, Richard D. McCarthy, U.S. Congressman (1965–1971).

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North Dakota

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Incumbent Democratic-NPL Party Senator Quentin N. Burdick was re-elected to his third term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas S. Kleppe, who later became the United States Secretary of the Interior.<ref name="Clerk" />

Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Thomas S. Kleppe, who was finishing his second and final term as a Representative for North Dakota's second congressional district. Burdick and Kleppe won the primary elections for their respective parties.

One independent candidate, Russell Kleppe, also filed before the deadline.

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Ohio

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See alsoDemocrat Stephen M. Young had served in the U.S. Senate since 1958 after defeating Republican John W. Bricker in a close election. Young was re-elected in 1964 over Republican Representative Robert Taft Jr., whose father Robert A. Taft represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 1939 until his death in 1953. Young opted to retire in 1971.

Taft Jr. faced a tough primary challenge against Ohio governor Jim Rhodes. He won a bitterly-fought primary by just under 6,000 votes to advance to the general election. Democrat Howard Metzenbaum competed in an equally-competitive primary, defeating former astronaut John Glenn. Metzenbaum and Glenn would both later represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate.

Taft Jr. defeated Metzenbaum in a close election, taking nearly 50% of the vote to just above 47% for Metzenbaum. Metzenbaum would defeat Taft Jr. in a rematch election in 1976, serving until 1995 alongside Glenn.

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Pennsylvania

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Incumbent Republican Hugh Scott won re-election, defeating Democratic nominee State senator William Sesler.

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Rhode Island

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Tennessee

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Texas

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Incumbent Democrat Ralph Yarborough was defeated by former Representative Lloyd Bentsen in the Democratic primary. Bentsen then defeated Representative George H. W. Bush in the general election. When Bush was running for president in 1988, his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, selected Bentsen as his vice presidential running mate. Template:Election box begin no change Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate no change Template:Election box majority no change Template:Election box turnout no change Template:Election box hold with party link no change

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Utah

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Vermont

Template:Infobox election {{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:See alsoRepublican Winston L. Prouty was first elected in 1958, succeeding Republican Ralph Flanders. He was re-elected in 1964 in a realigning period for Vermont politics. Democrat Philip H. Hoff became the state's first Democratic governor since 1853, while William H. Meyer succeeded Prouty in the House of Representatives. Prouty faced a more difficult challenge in 1964 and won with just 53% of the vote.

In 1970, Prouty faced Hoff and Meyer in the general election, with Meyer nominated by the Liberty Union party. Prouty prevailed with 59% of the vote to 40% for Hoff and just 1% for Meyer. He would not serve the full term, as he died in 1971 and was succeeded by Republican Robert Stafford. Template:Election box begin no change Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate with party link no change Template:Election box candidate no change Template:Election box majority no change Template:Election box turnout no change Template:Election box hold with party link no change

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Virginia

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Incumbent Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to his first full term after winning a race 4 years earlier to finish the remainder of his father's term. He beat George C. Rawlings Jr. (D), a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Ray L. Garland (R), a member of Virginia House of Delegates.

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Wyoming

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See also

• 1970 United States elections
  • 1970 United States gubernatorial elections
  • 1970 United States House of Representatives elections
• 91st United States Congress
• 92nd United States Congress
• 1970 in the United States

References

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