Electoral history of Wayne Morse, United States Senator from Oregon, candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination and Oregon favorite-son candidate in the 1952 Republican presidential primaries.
Originally a Republican, Morse became an independent in 1952 and a Democrat in 1955.
1944
1950
1952 Oregon Republican presidential primary, 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower - 172,486 (64.55%) Earl Warren - 44,034 (16.48%) Douglas MacArthur - 18,603 (6.96%) Robert A. Taft (write-in) - 18,009 (6.74%) Wayne Morse - 7,105 (2.66%) Harold Stassen - 6,610 (2.47%) William R. Schneider - 350 (0.13%)
1952 Republican presidential primaries: Robert A. Taft - 2,794,736 (35.84%) Dwight D. Eisenhower - 2,050,708 (26.30%) Earl Warren - 1,349,036 (17.30%) Harold Stassen - 881,702 (11.31%) Thomas H. Werdel - 521,110 (6.68%) George T. Mickelson - 63,879 (0.82%) Douglas MacArthur - 44,209 (0.57%) Grant A. Ritter - 26,208 (0.34%) Edward C. Slettedahl - 22,712 (0.29%) Riley A. Bender - 22,321 (0.29%) Mary E. Kenny - 10,411 (0.13%) Wayne Morse - 7,105 (0.09%) Perry J. Stearns - 2,925 (0.04%) William R. Schneider - 580 (0.01%)
1956
1960 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, 1960: Hubert Humphrey - 8,239 (57.35%) Wayne Morse - 6,127 (42.65%)
Maryland Democratic presidential primary, 1960: John F. Kennedy - 201,769 (70.31%) Wayne Morse - 49,420 (17.22%) Unpledged - 24,350 (8.49%) Lar Daly - 7,536 (2.63%) Andrew J. Easter - 3,881 (1.35%)
Oregon Democratic presidential primary, 1960: John F. Kennedy - 146,332 (50.97%) Wayne Morse - 91,715 (31.95%) Hubert Humphrey - 16,319 (5.68%) Stuart Symington - 12,496 (4.35%) Lyndon B. Johnson - 11,101 (3.87%) Adlai Stevenson (write-in) - 7,924 (2.76%) Others - 1,210 (0.42%)
1960 Democratic presidential primaries: John F. Kennedy - 1,847,259 (31.43%) Pat Brown - 1,354,031 (23.04%) George H. McLain - 646,387 (11.00%) Hubert Humphrey - 590,410 (10.05%) George Smathers - 322,235 (5.48%) Michael DiSalle - 315,312 (5.37%) Unpledged - 241,958 (4.12%) Albert S. Porter - 208,057 (3.54%) Wayne Morse - 147,262 (2.51%) Adlai Stevenson - 51,833 (0.88%) Lar Daly - 48,389 (0.82%) John H. Latham - 42,084 (0.72%) Stuart Symington - 29,740 (0.51%) Richard Nixon - 16,899 (0.29%) Lyndon B. Johnson - 15,691 (0.27%)
1962
1968
Primary election
General election
1972
Democratic nomination for the Vice President of the United States, 1972:
Vote to replace original candidate Thomas Eagleton, nominated at the 1972 Democratic National Convention and then removed from the ticket
Sargent Shriver - 2,936 (97.44%) Thomas Eagleton - 73 (2.42%) Wayne Morse - 4 (0.13%)
1974
Note: Morse died before the general election and was replaced on the ballot by Betty Roberts.
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