1964 United States Senate election in Florida
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The 1964 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Spessard Holland was re-elected to a fourth term in office, defeating J. Brailey Oldham in the primary and Republican Claude R. Kirk Jr. in the general election.
Democratic primary
[edit]Candidates
[edit]- Spessard Holland, incumbent U.S. Senator
- J. Brailey Oldham, former state representative and candidate for governor in 1952 and 1954
28.4% of the voting age population participated in the Democratic primary.[1]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Spessard Holland (inc.) | 676,014 | 70.02% | |
| Democratic | J. Brailey Oldham | 289,454 | 29.98% | |
| Total votes | 965,468 | 100.00% | ||
General election
[edit]Major candidates
[edit]- Spessard Holland (D), State Senator
- Claude R. Kirk Jr. (R), Florida campaign manager for Richard Nixon in 1960
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Democratic | Spessard Holland (inc.) | 997,585 | 63.93% |  7.30
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| Republican | Claude R. Kirk Jr. | 562,212 | 36.03% |  7.26
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| Write-in | All others | 540 | 0.04% | ||
| Democratic hold | Swing | [?] | |||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Steed, Moreland & Baker 1980, p. 26.
- ^ "TABULATION OF OFFICIAL VOTE — FLORIDA PRIMARY ELECTIONS" (PDF). Florida Secretary of State. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1964" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. 1965. p. 7.
Works cited
[edit]- Steed, Robert; Moreland, Laurence; Baker, Tod, eds. (1980). Party Politics in the South. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0030565863.