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1972 US Senate Results
Tomorrow I leave from Jordan, and will be radio silent for about two weeks, so here's a little treat to tide you all over. United States Senate Elections, 1972
Vermont (Class I):Robert Stafford (Republican) def. R. T. Major (Democratic), Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union) REPUBLICAN HOLD Georgia (Class 2): Sam Nunn (Democratic) def. S. F. Thompson (Republican) DEMOCRATIC HOLD
Alabama: John Sparkman (Democratic) def. Win Blount (Republican), John LeFlore (National Democratic) Alaska: Ted Stevens (Republican) def. Gene Guess (Democratic) Arkansas: John McClellan (Democratic) def. Wayne H. Babbitt (Republican) Colorado: Floyd Haskell (Democratic) def. Gordon L. Allott (Republican) Delaware: J. Caleb Boggs (Republican) def. Joseph R. Biden (Democratic)* Idaho: William E. "Bud" Davis (Democratic) def. James A. McClure (Republican)* Illinois: Charles H. "Chuck" Percy (Republican) def. Roman Pucinski (Democratic) Iowa: Dick Clark (Democratic) def. Jack Miller (Republican) Kansas: James B. Pearson (Republican) def. Arch Tetzlaf (Democratic)
Kentucky: Walter D. Huddleston (Democratic) def. Louie Nunn (Republican) Louisiana: John J. McKeithen (Democratic) def. Ben Toledano (Republican)* Maine: William Hathaway (Democratic) def. Margaret Chase Smith (Republican) Massachusetts: Ed Brooke (Republican) def. John J. Droney (Democratic)
Michigan: Frank J. Kelley (Democratic) def. Robert P. Griffin (Republican)* Minnesota: Walter Mondale (Democratic) def. Phil Hansen (Republican) Mississippi: James Eastland (Democratic) def. Gil Carmichael (Republican) Montana: Lee Metcalf (Democratic) def. Henry Hibbard (Republican) Nebraska: Carl Curtis (Republican) def. Terry Carpenter (Democratic) New Hampshire: Thomas McIntyre (Democratic) def. Wesley Powell (Republican) New Jersey: Clifford P. Case (Republican) def. Paul J. Krebs (Democratic) New Mexico: Jack Daniels (Democratic) def. Pete Domenici (Republican)* North Carolina: Nick Galafinakis (Democratic) def. Jesse Helms (Republican)*
Oklahoma: Dewey F. Bartlett (Republican) def. Ed Edmondson (Democratic) Oregon: Mark Hatfield (Republican) def. Wayne Morse (Democratic) Rhode Island: Claiborne Pell (Democratic) def. John Chaffee (Republican) South Carolina: Strom Thurmond (Republican) def. Eugene Ziegler (Democratic)
South Dakota: James Abourezk (Democratic) def. Robert Hirsch (Republican) Tennessee: Howard Baker (Republican) def. Ray Blanton (Democratic) Texas: John Tower (Republican) def. Barefoot Sanders (Democratic) Virginia: William B. Spong, Jr. (Democratic) def. William L. Scott (Republican)* West Virginia: Jennings Randolph (Democratic) def. Louise Leonard (Republican) Wyoming: Clifford Hansen (Republican) def. Mike Vinich (Democratic)
OVERALL DEMOCRATIC GAIN OF 6
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE: George C. Wallace (D-AL) PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE: James Eastland (D-MS) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: Mike Mansfield (D-MT) SENATE MAJORITY WHIP: Robert Byrd (D-WV)