United States Senate election in Virginia, 1952

November 4, 1952



Nominee	Harry F. Byrd, Sr.	H.M. Vise, Sr.	Clarke T. Robb
Party	Democratic	Independent Democrat	Social Democratic
Popular vote	398,677	69,133	67,281
Percentage	73.4%	12.7%	12.4%

U.S. Senator before election

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
Democratic

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The 1958 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 4, 1952. Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. was re-elected after defeating Independent Democrat H.M. Vise, Sr. and Social Democrat Clarke Robb.

Results

General election results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Harry F. Byrd, Sr. (inc.)	398,677	73.35%	+8.51%
	Independent Democrat	H.M. Vise, Sr.	69,133	12.72%	+12.72%
	Social Democratic	Clarke T. Robb	67,281	12.38%	+11.79%
		write-ins	8,425	1.55%	+1.54%
Majority			329,544	60.63%
Turnout			543,516
	Democratic hold

References

↑ http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1952election.pdf

Preceded by 1948 Absalom Willis Robertson	Virginia U.S. Senate elections 1952 Harry F. Byrd, Sr.	Succeeded by 1954 Absalom Willis Robertson