Massachusetts United States Senate election, 1976

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The United States Senate election of 1976 in Massachusetts was held on November 2, 1976 with the incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy defeating his challengers.

Contents 1 Results 2 Candidates 2.1 Democratic Party 2.2 Republican Party 3 External links and references

[edit] Results

Massachusetts United States Senate election, 1976
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Edward M. Kennedy	1,726,657	69.31
	Republican	Micheal S. Robertson	722,641	29.01
	Socialist Workers	Carol Henderson Evans	26,283	1.06
	U.S. Labor	H. Graham Lowry	15,517	0.62
		All others	157	0.01
Total votes			2,491,255	85.55%

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Democratic Party

• Senator Ted Kennedy - incumbent Senator elected in 1962 and reelected in 1964 and 1970. Subsequently ran for president in 1980, and was reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

[edit] Republican Party

• Michael S. Robertson

[edit] External links and references

• 1976 Congressional Election results

Recent Massachusetts elections (with winners)
General		2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
State	State Senate:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	State House:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	Governor:	1982 (Dukakis), 1986 (Dukakis), 1990 (Weld), 1994 (Weld), 1998 (Cellucci), 2002 (Romney), 2006 (Patrick), 2010
	Council:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
Federal	U.S. Senate:	Class 1: 1982 (Kennedy), 1988 (Kennedy), 1994 (Kennedy), 2000 (Kennedy), 2006 (Kennedy), 2012 Class 2: 1978 (Tsongas), 1984 (Kerry), 1990 (Kerry), 1996 (Kerry), 2002 (Kerry), 2008
	U.S. House:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	President :	2000, 2004, 2008