Electoral history of Ted Kennedy
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Electoral history of Ted Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009) and, at the time of his death, the second most senior member of the Senate.
United States Senate races[]
Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1962:[1]
- Ted Kennedy – 559,303 (69.33%)
- Edward J. McCormack, Jr. – 247,403 (30.67%)
Massachusetts United States Senate special election, 1962:[2]
- Ted Kennedy (D) – 1,162,611 (55.44%)
- George Cabot Lodge (R) – 877,668 (41.85%)
- H. Stuart Hughes (I) – 50,013 (2.38%)
- Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 5,330 (0.25%)
- Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) – 1,439 (0.07%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1964:[3]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,716,907 (74.26%)
- Howard J. Whitmore, Jr. (R) – 587,663 (25.42%)
- Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 4,745 (0.21%)
- (Prohibition) – 2,700 (0.12%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970:[4]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,202,856 (62.16%)
- Josiah Spaulding (R) – 715,978 (37.00%)
- Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 10,378 (0.54%)
- Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) – 5,944 (0.31%)
Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1976:[5]
- Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 534,725 (73.86%)
- – 117,496 (16.23%)
- Frederick C. Langone – 59,315 (8.19%)
- – 12,399 (1.71%)
- Others – 53 (0.01%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1976:[6]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,726,657 (69.31%)
- (R) – 722,641 (29.01%)
- (Socialist Workers) – 26,283 (1.06%)
- (US Labor) – 15,517 (0.62%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1982:[7]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,247,084 (60.82%)
- Ray Shamie (R) – 784,602 (38.26%)
- (Libertarian) – 18,878 (0.92%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1988:[8]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,693,344 (64.97%)
- Joseph D. Malone (R) – 884,267 (33.93%)
- (New Alliance) – 15,208 (0.58%)
- (Libertarian) – 13,199 (0.51%)
- Others – 207 (0.01%)
Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1994:[9]
- Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 391,637 (98.87%)
- Others – 4,498 (1.14%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1994:[10]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,265,997 (58.08%)
- Mitt Romney (R) – 894,000 (41.01%)
- (Libertarian) – 14,484 (0.66%)
- (LaRouche Movement) – 4,776 (0.22%)
- Others – 688 (0.03%)
Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 2000:[11]
- Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 236,883 (98.97%)
- Others – 2,467 (1.03%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2000:[12]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,887,479 (72.61%)
- Jack E. Robinson III (R) – 334,700 (12.88%)
- Carla Howell (Libertarian) – 308,748 (11.88%)
- (Constitution) – 42,316 (1.63%)
- (I) – 15,453 (0.59%)
- (I) – 8,444 (0.33%)
- Others – 2,474 (0.10%)
United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2006:[13]
- Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,500,738 (69.30%)
- Kenneth Chase (R) – 661,532 (30.55%)
- Others – 3,220 (0.15%)
Presidential and Vice Presidential races[]
1964 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary:[14]
- All votes were cast as write-ins
- Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 61,035 (72.91%)
- Robert F. Kennedy – 15,870 (18.96%)
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. – 2,269 (2.71%)
- Ted Kennedy – 1,259 (1.50%)
- Adlai Stevenson II – 952 (1.14%)
- George Wallace – 565 (0.68%)
- Hubert Humphrey – 323 (0.39%)
1968 Democratic Presidential primaries:[15]
- Eugene McCarthy – 2,914,933 (38.73%)
- Robert F. Kennedy – 2,305,148 (30.63%)
- Stephen M. Young – 549,140 (7.30%)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 383,590 (5.10%)
- Thomas C. Lynch – 380,286 (5.05%)
- Roger D. Branigin – 238,700 (3.17%)
- George Smathers – 236,242 (3.14%)
- Hubert Humphrey – 166,463 (2.21%)
- Unpledged delegates – 161,143 (2.14%)
- Scott Kelly – 128,899 (1.71%)
- George Wallace – 34,489 (0.46%)
- Richard Nixon – 13,610 (0.18%)
- Ronald Reagan – 5,309 (0.07%)
- Ted Kennedy – 4,052 (0.05%)
- Paul C. Fisher – 506 (0.01%)
- John G. Crommelin – 186 (0.00%)
1968 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):[16]
- Hubert Humphrey – 1,760 (67.43%)
- Eugene McCarthy – 601 (23.03%)
- George McGovern – 147 (5.63%)
- Channing E. Phillips – 68 (2.61%)
- Daniel K. Moore – 18 (0.69%)
- Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.50%)
- Paul Bryant – 1 (0.04%)
- James H. Gray – 1 (0.04%)
- George Wallace – 1 (0.04%)
1968 Democratic National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[17]
- Edmund Muskie – 1,945 (74.01%)
- Abstaining – 605 (23.02%)
- Julian Bond – 49 (1.87%)
- – 4 (0.15%)
- Ted Kennedy – 4 (0.15%)
- Eugene McCarthy – 3 (0.11%)
- Richard J. Daley – 2 (0.08%)
- Don Edwards – 2 (0.08%)
- George McGovern – 2 (0.08%)
- Robert McNair – 2 (0.08%)
- Abraham A. Ribicoff – 2 (0.08%)
- James Tate – 2 (0.08%)
- Allard Lowenstein – 1 (0.04%)
- Paul O'Dwyer – 1 (0.04%)
- Henry Reuss – 1 (0.04%)
- William F. Ryan – 1 (0.04%)
- Terry Sanford – 1 (0.04%)
- Sargent Shriver – 1 (0.04%)
Liberal Party presidential convention, 1968:[18]
- Hubert Humphrey – 199 (89.64%)
- Abstaining – 11 (4.96%)
- None of these candidates – 11 (4.96%)
- Ted Kennedy – 1 (0.45%)
1972 Democratic presidential primaries:[19]
- Hubert Humphrey – 4,121,372 (25.77%)
- George McGovern – 4,053,451 (25.34%)
- George Wallace – 3,755,424 (23.48%)
- Edmund Muskie – 1,840,217 (11.51%)
- Eugene McCarthy – 553,990 (3.46%)
- Henry M. Jackson – 505,198 (3.16%)
- Shirley Chisholm – 430,703 (2.69%)
- Terry Sanford – 331,415 (2.07%)
- John Lindsay – 196,406 (1.23%)
- Samuel Yorty – 79,446 (0.50%)
- Wilbur Mills – 37,401 (0.23%)
- Walter E. Fauntroy – 21,217 (0.13%)
- Unpledged – 19,533 (0.12%)
- Ted Kennedy – 16,693 (0.10%)
- Vance Hartke – 11,798 (0.07%)
- Patsy Mink – 8,286 (0.05%)
- None – 6,269 (0.04%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):[20]
- George McGovern – 1,729 (57.37%)
- Henry M. Jackson – 525 (17.42%)
- George Wallace – 382 (12.67%)
- Shirley Chisholm – 152 (5.04%)
- Terry Sanford – 78 (2.59%)
- Hubert Humphrey – 67 (2.22%)
- Wilbur Mills – 34 (1.13%)
- Edmund Muskie – 25 (0.83%)
- Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.43%)
- Wayne L. Hays – 5 (0.17%)
- Eugene McCarthy – 2 (0.07%)
- Ramsey Clark, Walter Mondale – 1 each (0.03%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[21]
- Thomas Eagleton – 1,742 (59.07%)
- Frances Farenthold – 405 (13.73%)
- Mike Gravel – 226 (7.66%)
- Endicott Peabody – 108 (3.66%)
- Clay Smothers – 74 (2.51%)
- Birch Bayh – 62 (2.10%)
- Peter W. Rodino – 57 (1.93%)
- Jimmy Carter – 30 (1.02%)
- Shirley Chisholm – 20 (0.68%)
- Moon Landrieu – 19 (0.64%)
- Edward T. Breathitt – 18 (0.61%)
- Ted Kennedy – 15 (0.51%)
- Fred R. Harris – 14 (0.48%)
- Richard G. Hatcher – 11 (0.37%)
- Harold Hughes – 10 (0.34%)
- Joseph Montoya – 9 (0.31%)
- William L. Guy – 8 (0.27%)
- Adlai Stevenson III – 8 (0.27%)
- Robert Bergland, Hodding Carter, César Chávez, Wilbur Mills – 5 each (0.17%)
- Wendell Anderson, Stanley Arnold, Ron Dellums, John J. Houlihan, Roberto A. Mondragon – 4 each (0.14%)
- Reubin O'Donovan Askew, Herman Badillo, Eugene McCarthy, Claiborne Pell, Terry Sanford – 3 each (0.10%)
- Ramsey Clark, Richard J. Daley, , Ernest Gruening, Roger Mudd, Edmund Muskie, Claude Pepper, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr., Leonard F. Woodcock, – 2 each (0.07%)
- , William A. Barrett, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Julian Bond, Skipper Bowles, , Phillip Burton, William Chappell, Lawton Chiles, Frank Church, Robert Drinan, Nick Galifianakis, John Z. Goodrich, Michael Griffin, Martha Griffiths, Charles Hamilton, Patricia Harris, Jim Hunt, Daniel Inouye, Henry M. Jackson, , Allard K. Lowenstein, Mao Zedong, Eleanor McGovern, Martha Beall Mitchell, Ralph Nader, George Norcross III, Jerry Rubin, Fred Seaman, Joe Smith, Benjamin Spock, , George Wallace – 1 each (0.03%)
1976 Democratic presidential primaries:[22]
- Jimmy Carter – 6,235,609 (39.27%)
- Jerry Brown – 2,449,374 (15.43%)
- George Wallace – 1,955,388 (12.31%)
- Mo Udall – 1,611,754 (10.15%)
- Henry M. Jackson – 1,134,375 (7.14%)
- Frank Church – 830,818 (5.23%)
- Robert Byrd – 340,309 (2.14%)
- Sargent Shriver – 304,399 (1.92%)
- Unpledged – 283,437 (1.79%)
- Ellen McCormack – 238,027 (1.50%)
- Fred R. Harris – 234,568 (1.48%)
- Milton Shapp – 88,254 (0.56%)
- Birch Bayh – 86,438 (0.54%)
- Hubert Humphrey – 61,992 (0.39%)
- Ted Kennedy – 19,805 (0.13%)
- Lloyd Bentsen – 4,046 (0.03%)
- Terry Sanford – 404 (0.00%)
1976 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):[23]
- Jimmy Carter – 2,239 (74.48%)
- Mo Udall – 330 (10.98%)
- Jerry Brown – 301 (10.01%)
- George Wallace – 57 (1.90%)
- Ellen McCormack – 22 (0.73%)
- Frank Church – 19 (0.63%)
- Hubert Humphrey – 10 (0.33%)
- Henry M. Jackson – 10 (0.33%)
- Fred R. Harris – 9 (0.30%)
- Milton Shapp, Robert Byrd – 2 each (0.07%)
- Hugh Carey, Cesar Chavez, Leon Jaworski, Barbara Jordan, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Jennings Randolph, – 1 each (0.03%)
1980 Democratic presidential primaries:[24]
- Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 10,043,016 (51.13%)
- Ted Kennedy – 7,381,693 (37.58%)
- Unpledged – 1,288,423 (6.56%)
- Jerry Brown – 575,296 (2.93%)
- Lyndon LaRouche – 177,784 (0.91%)
- Cliff Finch – 48,032 (0.25%)
1980 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):[25]
- Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 2,123 (64.04%)
- Ted Kennedy – 1,151 (34.72%)
- William Proxmire – 10 (0.30%)
- Koryne Kaneski Horbal, – 5 each (0.15%)
- Ron Dellums – 3 (0.09%)
- Robert Byrd, John Culver, Kent Hance, Jennings Randolph, Warren Spannaus, – 2 each (0.06%)
- Jerry Brown, Dale Bumpers, Hugh L. Carey, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, Thomas J. Steed – 1 each (0.03%)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate – D Primary Race – Sep 18, 1962
- ^ http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1962election.pdf
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 03, 1964
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 03, 1970
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate -D Primary Race – Sep 14, 1976
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 02, 1976
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 05, 1982
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 08, 1988
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate- D Primary Race – Sep 20, 1994
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 08, 1994
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate- D Primary Race – Jun 13, 2000
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 07, 2000
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US Senate Race – Nov 07, 2006
- ^ Our Campaigns – MA US President – D Primary Race – Apr 28, 1964
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Mar 12, 1968
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Aug 26, 1968
- ^ Our Campaigns – US Vice President – D Convention Race – Jul 26, 1968
- ^ Our Campaigns – NY US President – L Convention Race – Sep 04, 1968
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Mar 07, 1972
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Jul 10, 1972
- ^ Our Campaigns – US Vice President – D Convention Race – Jul 10, 1972
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Feb 01, 1976
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Jul 12, 1976
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Feb 26, 1980
- ^ Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Aug 11, 1980
February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009
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