North Dakota United States Senate election, 1982
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The 1982 U.S. Senate election for the state of North Dakota was held November 2, 1982. The incumbent, Dem-NPL Senator Quentin Burdick, sought and received re-election to his fifth term, defeating Republican candidate Gene Knorr. [1]
Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Gene Knorr. Burdick and Knorr won the primary elections for their respective parties.
One independent candidate, Anna B. Bourgois, also filed before the deadline, running under her self-created party titled God, Family, and Country. Bourgois would later run for North Dakota's other Senate seat an independent in 1986, challenging Mark Andrews. She received over 8,000 votes in the election, which is rather high for an independent. Some attribute her large number of votes to the name of her party - which was based on things that North Dakotans valued.
[edit] Election results
| 1982 United States Senate election, North Dakota | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic | Quentin Burdick (incumbent) | 164,873 | 62.84 | ||
| Republican | Gene Knorr | 89,304 | 34.03 | ||
| Independent | Anna B. Bourgois | 8,288 | 3.13 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | 262,465 | ||||
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