Electoral history of Ted Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009) and, at the time of his death, the second most senior member of the Senate.
United States Senate races
Presidential and vice-presidential races
1964 1964 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary:Our Campaigns – MA US President – D Primary Race – Apr 28, 1964
All votes were cast as write-ins Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 61,035 (72.91%) Robert F. Kennedy – 15,870 (18.96%) Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. – 2,269 (2.71%) Ted Kennedy – 1,259 (1.50%) Adlai Stevenson II – 952 (1.14%) George Wallace – 565 (0.68%) Hubert Humphrey – 323 (0.39%)
1968 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries:Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Mar 12, 1968 Eugene McCarthy – 2,914,933 (38.73%) Robert F. Kennedy – 2,305,148 (30.63%) Stephen M. Young – 549,140 (7.30%) Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 383,590 (5.10%) Thomas C. Lynch – 380,286 (5.05%) Roger D. Branigin – 238,700 (3.17%) George Smathers – 236,242 (3.14%) Hubert Humphrey – 166,463 (2.21%) Unpledged delegates – 161,143 (2.14%) Scott Kelly – 128,899 (1.71%) George Wallace – 34,489 (0.46%) Richard Nixon – 13,610 (0.18%) Ronald Reagan – 5,309 (0.07%) Ted Kennedy – 4,052 (0.05%) Paul C. Fisher – 506 (0.01%) John G. Crommelin – 186 (0.00%)
1968 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Aug 26, 1968 Hubert Humphrey – 1,760 (67.43%) Eugene McCarthy – 601 (23.03%) George McGovern – 147 (5.63%) Channing E. Phillips – 68 (2.61%) Daniel K. Moore – 18 (0.69%) Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.50%) Paul Bryant – 1 (0.04%) James H. Gray – 1 (0.04%) George Wallace – 1 (0.04%)
1968 Democratic National Convention (vice-presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US Vice President – D Convention Race – Jul 26, 1968 Edmund Muskie – 1,945 (74.01%) Abstaining – 605 (23.02%) Julian Bond – 49 (1.87%) David C. Hoeh – 4 (0.15%) Ted Kennedy – 4 (0.15%) Eugene McCarthy – 3 (0.11%) Richard J. Daley – 2 (0.08%) Don Edwards – 2 (0.08%) George McGovern – 2 (0.08%) Robert McNair – 2 (0.08%) Abraham A. Ribicoff – 2 (0.08%) James Tate – 2 (0.08%) Allard Lowenstein – 1 (0.04%) Paul O'Dwyer – 1 (0.04%) Henry Reuss – 1 (0.04%) William F. Ryan – 1 (0.04%) Terry Sanford – 1 (0.04%) Sargent Shriver – 1 (0.04%)
1968 Liberal Party presidential convention:Our Campaigns – NY US President – L Convention Race – Sep 04, 1968 Hubert Humphrey – 199 (89.64%) Abstaining – 11 (4.96%) None of these candidates – 11 (4.96%) Ted Kennedy – 1 (0.45%)
1972 1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries:Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Mar 07, 1972 Hubert Humphrey – 4,121,372 (25.77%) George McGovern – 4,053,451 (25.34%) George Wallace – 3,755,424 (23.48%) Edmund Muskie – 1,840,217 (11.51%) Eugene McCarthy – 553,990 (3.46%) Henry M. Jackson – 505,198 (3.16%) Shirley Chisholm – 430,703 (2.69%) Terry Sanford – 331,415 (2.07%) John Lindsay – 196,406 (1.23%) Samuel Yorty – 79,446 (0.50%) Wilbur Mills – 37,401 (0.23%) Walter E. Fauntroy – 21,217 (0.13%) Unpledged – 19,533 (0.12%) Ted Kennedy – 16,693 (0.10%) Vance Hartke – 11,798 (0.07%) Patsy Mink – 8,286 (0.05%) None – 6,269 (0.04%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Jul 10, 1972 George McGovern – 1,729 (57.37%) Henry M. Jackson – 525 (17.42%) George Wallace – 382 (12.67%) Shirley Chisholm – 152 (5.04%) Terry Sanford – 78 (2.59%) Hubert Humphrey – 67 (2.22%) Wilbur Mills – 34 (1.13%) Edmund Muskie – 25 (0.83%) Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.43%) Wayne L. Hays – 5 (0.17%) Eugene McCarthy – 2 (0.07%) Ramsey Clark, Walter Mondale – 1 each (0.03%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (vice-presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US Vice President – D Convention Race – Jul 10, 1972
Thomas Eagleton – 1,742 (59.07%) Frances Farenthold – 405 (13.73%) Mike Gravel – 226 (7.66%) Endicott Peabody – 108 (3.66%) Clay Smothers – 74 (2.51%) Birch Bayh – 62 (2.10%) Peter W. Rodino – 57 (1.93%) Jimmy Carter – 30 (1.02%) Shirley Chisholm – 20 (0.68%) Moon Landrieu – 19 (0.64%) Edward T. Breathitt – 18 (0.61%) Ted Kennedy – 15 (0.51%) Fred R. Harris – 14 (0.48%) Richard G. Hatcher – 11 (0.37%) Harold Hughes – 10 (0.34%) Joseph Montoya – 9 (0.31%) William L. Guy – 8 (0.27%) Adlai Stevenson III – 8 (0.27%) Robert Bergland, Hodding Carter, César Chávez, Wilbur Mills – 5 each (0.17%) Wendell Anderson, Stanley Arnold, Ron Dellums, John J. Houlihan, Roberto A. Mondragon – 4 each (0.14%) Reubin O'Donovan Askew, Herman Badillo, Eugene McCarthy, Claiborne Pell, Terry Sanford – 3 each (0.10%) Ramsey Clark, Richard J. Daley, John DeCarlo, Ernest Gruening, Roger Mudd, Edmund Muskie, Claude Pepper, Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., Leonard F. Woodcock, Bruno Agnoli – 2 each (0.07%) Ernest Albright, William A. Barrett, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Julian Bond, Skipper Bowles, Archibald Burton, Phillip Burton, William Chappell, Lawton Chiles, Frank Church, Robert Drinan, Nick Galifianakis, John Z. Goodrich, Michael Griffin, Martha Griffiths, Charles Hamilton, Patricia Harris, Jim Hunt, Daniel Inouye, Henry M. Jackson, Robery Kariss, Allard K. Lowenstein, Mao Zedong, Eleanor McGovern, Martha Beall Mitchell, Ralph Nader, George Norcross III, Jerry Rubin, Fred Seaman, Joe Smith, Benjamin Spock, Patrick Tavolacci, George Wallace – 1 each (0.03%)
1976 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries:Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Feb 01, 1976 Jimmy Carter – 6,235,609 (39.27%) Jerry Brown – 2,449,374 (15.43%) George Wallace – 1,955,388 (12.31%) Mo Udall – 1,611,754 (10.15%) Henry M. Jackson – 1,134,375 (7.14%) Frank Church – 830,818 (5.23%) Robert Byrd – 340,309 (2.14%) Sargent Shriver – 304,399 (1.92%) Unpledged – 283,437 (1.79%) Ellen McCormack – 238,027 (1.50%) Fred R. Harris – 234,568 (1.48%) Milton Shapp – 88,254 (0.56%) Birch Bayh – 86,438 (0.54%) Hubert Humphrey – 61,992 (0.39%) Ted Kennedy – 19,805 (0.13%) Lloyd Bentsen – 4,046 (0.03%) Terry Sanford – 404 (0.00%)
1976 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Jul 12, 1976 Jimmy Carter – 2,239 (74.48%) Mo Udall – 330 (10.98%) Jerry Brown – 301 (10.01%) George Wallace – 57 (1.90%) Ellen McCormack – 22 (0.73%) Frank Church – 19 (0.63%) Hubert Humphrey – 10 (0.33%) Henry M. Jackson – 10 (0.33%) Fred R. Harris – 9 (0.30%) Milton Shapp, Robert Byrd – 2 each (0.07%) Hugh Carey, Cesar Chavez, Leon Jaworski, Barbara Jordan, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Jennings Randolph, Fred Stover – 1 each (0.03%)
1980 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries:Our Campaigns – US President – D Primaries Race – Feb 26, 1980 Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 10,043,016 (51.13%) Ted Kennedy – 7,381,693 (37.58%) Unpledged – 1,288,423 (6.56%) Jerry Brown – 575,296 (2.93%) Lyndon LaRouche – 177,784 (0.91%) Cliff Finch – 48,032 (0.25%)
1980 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):Our Campaigns – US President – D Convention Race – Aug 11, 1980 Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 2,123 (64.04%) Ted Kennedy – 1,151 (34.72%) William Proxmire – 10 (0.30%) Koryne Kaneski Horbal, Scott M. Matheson Sr. – 5 each (0.15%) Ron Dellums – 3 (0.09%) Robert Byrd, John Culver, Kent Hance, Jennings Randolph, Warren Spannaus, Alice Tripp – 2 each (0.06%) Jerry Brown, Dale Bumpers, Hugh L. Carey, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, Thomas J. Steed – 1 each (0.03%)
See also Electoral history of John F. Kennedy Electoral history of Barack Obama Electoral history of Joe Biden Electoral history of Kamala Harris
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