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Office | Senate |
Type | Control Indicator |
Filing Deadline | 00, 1966 - 12:00pm |
Polls Open | November 08, 1966 - 06:00am |
Polls Close | November 03, 1970 - 08:00pm |
Term Start | January 03, 1971 - 12:00pm |
Term End | January 03, 1973 - 12:00pm |
Contributor | Chronicler |
Last Modified | Chronicler August 03, 2005 09:01pm |
Data Sources | Dubin, pp. 657-677. |
Description | The Democrats managed to hold onto most of their Class of 1964 in the U.S. Senate elections of 1970. They went into the election holding two-thirds of the seats; they ended up winning 22 races to 11 for the Republicans and 2 Independents. As a result, the Democrats lost four seats and the Republicans gained two seats. The new Senate stood D-54, R-44, I-2.
New Senators in 1971: Stevens (R-AK), Tunney (D-CA), Weicker (R-CT), Roth (R-DE), Chiles (D-FL), Stevenson (D-IL), Beall (R-MD), Humphrey (DFL-MN), Buckley (C-NY), Taft (R-OH), Brock (R-TN), and Bentsen (D-TX).
The aggregate nationwide totals for U.S. Senate races in 1970:
Democratic 24,404,277 - 52.3%
Republican 19,301,205 - 39.7
Am. Independent (including NY-Conservative) 2,575,546 - 5.3
Independent 903,028 - 1.9
Liberal 225,793 - 0.5
Socialist Labor 64,067 - 0.1
Peace and Freedom 59,137 - 0.1
Socialist Workers 27,937 - 0.1
Prohibition 11,652 |
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Democratic Party Control |
Republican Party Control |
American Independent Party Control |
Independent Control |
Liberal Party Control |
Peace and Freedom Party Control |
Socialist Labor Party Control |
Party | Democratic |
Republican |
American Independent |
Independent |
Liberal |
Peace & Freedom |
Socialist Labor |
Votes | 59,939,260 (50.19%) |
53,250,327 (44.59%) |
3,915,982 (3.28%) |
1,217,649 (1.02%) |
757,428 (0.63%) |
164,548 (0.14%) |
107,634 (0.09%) |
Margin | 0 (0.00%) |
-6,688,933 (-5.60%) |
-56,023,278 (-46.91%) |
-58,721,611 (-49.17%) |
-59,181,832 (-49.55%) |
-59,774,712 (-50.05%) |
-59,831,626 (-50.10%) |
Predict Avg. | 0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
Finances | $0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
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Socialist Workers Party Control |
Prohibition Party Control |
Party | Socialist Workers |
Prohibition |
Votes | 42,370 (0.04%) |
38,919 (0.03%) |
Margin | -59,896,890 (-50.15%) |
-59,900,341 (-50.15%) |
Predict Avg. | 0.00% |
0.00% |
Finances | $0.00 |
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