- United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970
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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970 
1964 ← November 3, 1970 → 1976 
Nominee Ted Kennedy Josiah Spaulding Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,202,856 715,978 Percentage 62.16% 37.00%
County Results
Senator before election
Elected Senator
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The United States Senate election of 1970 in Massachusetts was held on November 3, 1970. The incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy defeated his challengers. This was Kennedy's first election run since the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident.
Contents
Candidates
Democratic
- Ted Kennedy - Incumbent Senator first elected in 1962 (to John Kennedy's unexpired term) and elected to a full term in 1964.
Republican
- Josiah Spaulding - 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.[1]
- John J. McCarthy, State Commissioner of Administration and Finance from 1965-1967.
Socialist Labor
- Lawrence Gilfedder
Prohibition
- Mark R. Shaw - 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.[2]
Results
Primaries
Republican Primary [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican Josiah Spaulding 109,306 57.32 Republican John J. McCarthy 81,356 42.66 General election
General election Party Candidate Votes % ±% Democratic Edward M. Kennedy 1,202,856 62.16 -12.1 Republican Josiah Spaulding 715,978 37.00 +11.58 Socialist Labor Lawrence Gilfedder 10,378 0.54 +0.33 Prohibition Mark R. Shaw 5,944 0.31 +0.19 External links and reference
- Race details at ourcampaigns.com
- ^ Josiah Spaulding at ourcampaigns.com
- ^ Mark R. Shaw at ourcampaigns.com
- ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=349912
Ted Kennedy February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009Electoral history 1962 Senate · 1964 Senate · 1970 Senate · 1976 Senate · 1980 Presidential · 1982 Senate · 1988 Senate · 1994 Senate · 2000 Senate · 2006 Senate
Books My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D.C. · True CompassFamily Joan Bennett Kennedy (first wife) · Victoria Reggie Kennedy (second wife) · Kara Kennedy Allen (daughter) · Ted Kennedy, Jr. (son) · Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (son) · Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (father) · Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (mother) · Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (brother) · John Fitzgerald Kennedy (brother) · Robert Francis Kennedy (brother)Related topics Awards and honors · Political positions · Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate · Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act · Chappaquiddick incident · Mary Jo KopechneCategories:- United States Senate elections in Massachusetts
- United States Senate elections, 1970
- Massachusetts elections, 1970
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