United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970

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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.

Contents 1 Candidates 1.1 Democratic 1.2 Republican 1.3 Prohibition 2 Results 3 External links and reference

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Democratic

• Ted Kennedy - Incumbent Senator first elected in 1962 and reelected in 1964. Subsequently ran for president in 1980, and was reelected in 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006.

[edit] 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. In 1980, he headed the Presidential campaign of John B. Anderson in Massachusetts.^[1]

[edit] 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]

[edit] Results

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 Party	Mark R. Shaw	5,944	0.31	+0.19

[edit] External links and reference

• Race details at ourcampaigns.com

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