United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1974

November 5, 1974



Nominee	Robert Morgan	William Stevens
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	633,647	386,720
Percentage	61.6%	37.6%

Senator before election

Sam Ervin
Democratic

Elected Senator

Robert Morgan
Democratic

The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1974 was held on 5 November 1974 as part of the nationwide elections to the Senate. The general election was fought between the Democratic nominee Robert Morgan and the Republican nominee William Stevens. The seat had been vacated by Democrat Sam Ervin.

Result

1974 North Carolina U.S. Senate election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Morgan	633,647	61.56	+1.00
	Republican	William Stevens	386,720	37.57	-1.87
	Other		8,974	0.87	N/A
Turnout			1,029,341

Primaries

Democratic primary

1974 North Carolina U.S. Senate Democratic primary election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Morgan	294,986	50.40	N/A
	Democratic	Nick Galifianakis	189,815	32.43	N/A
	Democratic	Henry Wilson	67,247	11.49	N/A
	Democratic	James Johnson	6,138	1.05	N/A
	Democratic	Others	27,140	4.64	N/A
Turnout			585,326

Republican primary

1974 North Carolina U.S. Senate Republican primary election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	William Stevens	62,419	65.12	N/A
	Republican	Wood Hall Young	26,918	28.08	N/A
	Republican	B. E. Sweatt	6,520	6.80	N/A
Turnout			95,857

Footnotes

1 2 3 "North Carolina DataNet #46" (PDF). University of North Carolina. April 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-12.

United States Senate elections in North Carolina

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S denotes special election

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