Electoral history of Ted Kennedy

Electoral history of Ted Kennedy, senior United States Senator from Massachusetts (1962-) and currently the second most senior member of the Senate.

United States Senate races

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1962 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=24508 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate - D Primary Race - Sep 18, 1962 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy - 559,303 (69.33%)
* Edward J. McCormack, Jr. - 247,403 (30.67%)

Massachusetts United States Senate special election, 1962 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=21231 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate - Special Election Race - Nov 06, 1962 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (D) - 1,162,611 (52.92%)
* George Cabot Lodge (R) - 977,668 (44.50%)
* H. Stuart Hudges (I) - 50,013 (2.28%)
* Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) - 5,330 (0.24%)
* Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) - 1,439 (0.07%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1964 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=21230 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1964 ] ] :
* 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%)
* Grace F. Luder (Prohibition) - 2,700 (0.12%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6554 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1970 ] ] :
* 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 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=329496 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate -D Primary Race - Sep 14, 1976 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (inc.) - 534,725 (73.86%)
* Robert E. Dinsmore - 117,496 (16.23%)
* Frederick C. Langone - 59,315 (8.19%)
* Bernard Shannon - 12,399 (1.71%)
* Others - 53 (0.01%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1976 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6305 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 02, 1976 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) - 1,726,657 (69.31%)
* Michael S. Robertson (R) - 722,641 (29.01%)
* Carol Henderson Evans (Socialist Workers) - 26,283 (1.06%)
* H. Graham Lowry (US Labor) - 15,517 (0.62%) United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1982 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3784 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 05, 1982 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) - 1,247,084 (60.82%)
* Ray Shamie (R) - 784,602 (38.26%)
* Howard S. Katz (Libertarian) - 18,878 (0.92%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1988 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3553 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 08, 1988 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) - 1,693,344 (64.97%)
* Joseph D. Malone (R) - 884,267 (33.93%)
* Mary Fridley (New Alliance) - 15,208 (0.58%)
* Frede Lee Nanson (Libertarian) - 13,199 (0.51%)
* Others - 207 (0.01%)

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1994 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=242900 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate- D Primary Race - Sep 20, 1994 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (inc.) - 391,637 (98.87%)
* Others - 4,498 (1.14%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1994 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3460 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 08, 1994 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) - 1,265,997 (58.08%)
* Mitt Romney (R) - 894,000 (41.01%)
* Lauraleigh Dozier (Libertarian) - 14,484 (0.66%)
* William A. Ferguson, Jr. (LaRouche Movement) - 4,776 (0.22%)
* Others - 688 (0.03%)

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 2000 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=207968 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate- D Primary Race - Jun 13, 2000 ] ] :
* Ted Kennedy (inc.) - 236,883 (98.97%)
* Others - 2,467 (1.03%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2000 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=99 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 07, 2000 ] ] :
* 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%)
* Philip F. Lawler (Constitution) - 42,316 (1.63%)
* Dale E. Friedgen (I) - 15,453 (0.59%)
* R. Philip Hyde (I) - 8,444 (0.33%)
* Others - 2,474 (0.10%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2006 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=114302 Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 07, 2006 ] ] :
* 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 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=35960 Our Campaigns - MA US President - D Primary Race - Apr 28, 1964 ] ] :

All candidates were running 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 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=47021 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968 ] ] :
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58481 Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Aug 26, 1968 ] ] :
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59937 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - D Convention Race - Jul 26, 1968 ] ] :
* Edmund Muskie - 1,945 (74.01%)
* Abstaining - 605 (23.02%)
* Julian Bond - 49 (1.87%)
* David C. Hoeh - 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 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=238323 Our Campaigns - NY US President - L Convention Race - Sep 04, 1968 ] ] :
* 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 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46950 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972 ] ] :
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58482 Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Jul 10, 1972 ] ] :
* 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 - 1 (0.03%)
* Walter Mondale - 1 (0.03%)

1972 Democratic National Convention (Vice Presidential tally) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59902 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - D Convention Race - Jul 10, 1972 ] ] :
* 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 - 5 (0.17%)
* Hodding Carter - 5 (0.17%)
* César Chávez - 5 (0.17%)
* Wilbur Mills - 5 (0.17%)
* Wendell Anderson - 4 (0.14%)
* Stanley Arnold - 4 (0.14%)
* Ron Dellums - 4 (0.14%)
* John J. Houlihan - 4 (0.14%)
* Roberto A. Mondragon - 4 (0.14%)
* Reubin O'Donovan Askew - 3 (0.10%)
* Herman Badillo - 3 (0.10%)
* Eugene McCarthy - 3 (0.10%)
* Claiborne Pell - 3 (0.10%)
* Terry Sanford - 3 (0.10%)
* Ramsey Clark - 2 (0.07%)
* Richard J. Daley - 2 (0.07%)
* John DeCarlo - 2 (0.07%)
* Ernest Gruening - 2 (0.07%)
* Roger Mudd - 2 (0.07%)
* Edmund Muskie - 2 (0.07%)
* Claude Pepper - 2 (0.07%)
* Abraham A. Ribicoff - 2 (0.07%)
* Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr. - 2 (0.07%)
* Leonard F. Wodcoock - 2 (0.07%)
* Bruno Agnoli - 2 (0.07%)
* Ernest Albright - 1 (0.03%)
* William A. Barrett - 1 (0.03%)
* Daniel Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
* Philip Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
* Julian Bond - 1 (0.03%)
* Skipper Bowles - 1 (0.03%)
* Archibald Burton - 1 (0.03%)
* Phillip Burton - 1 (0.03%)
* William Chappell - 1 (0.03%)
* Lawton Chiles - 1 (0.03%)
* Frank Church - 1 (0.03%)
* Robert Drinan - 1 (0.03%)
* Nick Galifianakis - 1 (0.03%)
* John Z. Goodrich - 1 (0.03%)
* Michael Griffin - 1 (0.03%)
* Martha Griffiths - 1 (0.03%)
* Charles Hamilton - 1 (0.03%)
* Patricia Harris - 1 (0.03%)
* Jim Hunt - 1 (0.03%)
* Daniel Inouye - 1 (0.03%)
* Henry M. Jackson - 1 (0.03%)
* Robery Kariss - 1 (0.03%)
* Allard K. Lowenstein - 1 (0.03%)
* Mao Zedong - 1 (0.03%)
* Eleanor McGovern - 1 (0.03%)
* Martha Beall Mitchell - 1 (0.03%)
* Ralph Nader - 1 (0.03%)
* George Norcross III - 1 (0.03%)
* Jerry Rubin - 1 (0.03%)
* Fred Seaman - 1 (0.03%)
* Joe Smith - 1 (0.03%)
* Benjamin Spock - 1 (0.03%)
* Patrick Tavolacci - 1 (0.03%)
* George Wallace - 1 (0.03%)

1976 Democratic presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55206 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1976 ] ] :
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58483 Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Jul 12, 1976 ] ] :
* 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 - 2 (0.07%)
* Robert Byrd - 2 (0.07%)
* Hugh Carey, Cesar Chavez, Leon Jaworski, Barbara Jordan, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Jennings Randolph, Fred Stover - each 1 vote (0.03%)

1980 Democratic presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=51811 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Feb 26, 1980 ] ]
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58484 Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Aug 11, 1980 ] ]
* Jimmy Carter (inc.) - 2,123 (64.04%)
* Ted Kennedy - 1,151 (34.72%)
* William Proxmire - 10 (0.30%)
* Koryne Kaneski Horbal - 5 (0.15%)
* Scott M. Matheson, Sr. - 5 (0.15%)
* Ron Dellums - 3 (0.09%)
* Robert Byrd - 2 (0.06%)
* John Culver - 2 (0.06%)
* Kent Hance - 2 (0.06%)
* Jennings Randolph - 2 (0.06%)
* Warren Spannaus - 2 (0.06%)
* Alice Tripp - 2 (0.06%)
* Jerry Brown - 1 (0.03%)
* Dale Bumpers - 1 (0.03%)
* Hugh L. Carey - 1 (0.03%)
* Walter Mondale - 1 (0.03%)
* Edmund Muskie - 1 (0.03%)
* Thomas J. Steed - 1 (0.03%)

References

ee also

*Electoral history of John F. Kennedy