United States Senate election in New Jersey, 1976

United States Senate elections, 1976

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November 2, 1976

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33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate
51 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Robert Byrd	Howard Baker
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	West Virginia	Tennessee
Seats before	61	37
Seats after	61	38
Seat change		1
Popular vote	31,790,526	24,562,431
Percentage	53.7%	41.5%
Swing	1.5%	1.9%
Seats up	21	10
Races won	21	11

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Independent	Conservative (N.Y.)
Seats before	1	1
Seats after	1	0
Seat change		1
Popular vote	890,778	311,494
Seats up	1	1
Races won	1	0

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Results, with special elections
     Democratic gain      Democratic hold
     Republican gain      Republican hold
     Independent hold

Majority Leader before election

Mike Mansfield
Democratic

Elected Majority Leader

Robert Byrd
Democratic

U.S. Senate election in Arizona, 1976

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Nominee	Dennis DeConcini	Sam Steiger
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	400,334	321,236
Percentage	54.0%	43.3%

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U.S. Senate election results map.
Blue denotes counties won by DeConcini.
Red denotes those won by Steiger.

U.S. Senator before election

Paul Fannin
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Dennis DeConcini
Democratic

U.S. Senate election in California, 1976

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Nominee	S. I. Hayakawa	John V. Tunney
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	3,748,973	3,502,862
Percentage	50.1%	46.9%

U.S. Senator before election

John V. Tunney
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

S. I. Hayakawa
Republican

U.S. Senate election in Connecticut, 1976

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Nominee	Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.	Gloria Schaffer
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	785,683	561,018
Percentage	57.7%	41.2%

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County results

U.S. Senator before election

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Republican

U.S. Senate election in Delaware, 1976

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Nominee	Bill Roth	Thomas Maloney
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	125,454	98,042
Percentage	55.8%	43.6%

U.S. Senator before election

Bill Roth
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Bill Roth
Republican

U.S. Senate election in Florida, 1976

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1982 →


Nominee	Lawton Chiles	John Grady
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	1,799,518	1,057,886
Percentage	63.0%	37.0%

U.S. Senator before election

Lawton Chiles
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Lawton Chiles
Democratic

U.S. Senate election in Hawaii, 1976

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Nominee	Spark Matsunaga	William Quinn
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	162,305	122,724
Percentage	53.7%	40.6%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Hiram Fong
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Spark Matsunaga
Democratic

U.S. Senate election in Indiana, 1976

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Nominee	Richard Lugar	Vance Hartke
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	1,275,833	868,522
Percentage	59.0%	40.2%

U.S. Senator before election

Vance Hartke
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Richard Lugar
Republican

U.S. Senate election in Maine, 1976

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Nominee	Edmund Muskie	Robert A. G. Monks
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	292,704	193,489
Percentage	60.2%	39.8%

U.S. Senator before election

Edmund Muskie
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Edmund Muskie
Democratic

U.S. Senate election in Maryland, 1976

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Nominee	Paul Sarbanes	John Glenn Beall, Jr.
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	772,101	530,439
Percentage	56.6%	38.9%

U.S. Senator before election

John Glenn Beall, Jr.
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Paul Sarbanes
Democratic

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