United States Senate election in Indiana, 1980

United States Senate election in Indiana, 1980
Indiana
November 4, 1980
 
Nominee Dan Quayle Birch Bayh
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,182,414 1,015,922
Percentage 53.8% 46.2%

County results
U.S. Senator before election

Birch Bayh
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Dan Quayle
Republican

The 1980 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 4, 1980, along with elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as the presidential election, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Birch Bayh ran for a fourth term, but was defeated by Republican Dan Quayle.

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Republican primary results[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican J. Danforth Quayle 397,273 77.06
Republican Roger Marsh 118,273 22.94

General election

Candidates

Campaign

Birch Bayh, the incumbent Senator, faced no opposition from Indiana and avoided a primary election. Bayh was originally elected in 1962 and re-elected in 1968 and 1974. He was Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee and architect of 25th and 26th Amendments. This election was one of the key races in the country, and signaled a trend that would come to be known as Reagan's coattails, describing the influence Ronald Reagan had in congressional elections. Incumbent three-term Senator Birch Bayh was defeated by over 150,000 votes to Representative J. Danforth Quayle, who would later go on to be Vice President of the United States.

Results

General election results
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican J. Danforth Quayle 1,182,414 53.79
Democratic Birch Bayh (Incumbent) 1,015,922 46.21
Majority 166,492 7.58
Turnout 2,198,366
  Republican gain from Democrat

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Official Results". OurCampaigns. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
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