Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy

Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)

Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy, United States Senator (1959–1971) and Representative (1949–1959) from Minnesota. He was a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Democratic Party on the national level).

McCarthy was also a candidate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, coming first in the primaries. He later ran for President four times.

House and Senate races (1948-1964)

Minnesota's 4th congressional district, 1948:[1]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) - 78,476 (59.43%)
• Edward Devitt (R) (inc.) - 53,574 (40.57%)

Minnesota's 4th congressional district, 1950:[2]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) (inc.) - 59,930 (60.39%)
• Ward Fleming (R) - 39,307 (39.61%)

Minnesota's 4th congressional district, 1952:[3]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) (inc.) - 98,015 (61.71%)
• Roger G. Kennedy (R) - 60,827 (38.29%)

Minnesota's 4th congressional district, 1954:[4]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) (inc.) - 81,651 (63.01%)
• Dick Hansen (R) - 47,933 (36.99%)

Minnesota's 4th congressional district, 1956:[5]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) (inc.) - 103,320 (64.07%)
• Edward C. Slettedahl (R) - 57,947 (35.93%)

United States Senate election in Minnesota, 1958:[6]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) - 608,847 (52.95%)
• Edward John Thye (R) (inc.) - 535,629 (46.58%)
• William M. Curran (Socialist Workers) - 5,407 (0.47%)

United States Senate election in Minnesota, 1964:[7]

• Eugene McCarthy (DFL) (inc.) - 931,363 (60.34%)
• Wheelock Whitney, Jr. (R) - 605,933 (39.26%)
• William Braatz (Industrial Government) - 3,947 (0.26%)
• Everett E. Luoma (Socialist Workers) - 2,357 (0.15%)

1968 presidential election

New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[8]

• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 27,520 (49.62%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 23,263 (41.94%)
• Richard Nixon - 2,532 (4.57%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 606 (1.09%)
• Paul C. Fisher - 506 (0.91%)
• Nelson Rockefeller - 249 (0.45%)
• George Wallace - 201 (0.36%)

New Hampshire Democratic vice presidential primary, 1968:[9]

• Hubert Humphrey (inc.) - 7,622 (56.25%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 2,833 (20.91%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 1,105 (8.16%)
• Paul C. Fisher - 858 (6.33%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson - 385 (2.84%)
• Claude R. Kirk Jr. - 339 (2.50%)
• John A. Volpe - 205 (1.51%)
• Richard Nixon - 159 (1.17%)
• George Wallace - 44 (0.33%)

Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[10]

• Eugene McCarthy - 412,160 (56.23%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 253,696 (34.61%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 46,507 (6.35%)
• None of These Candidates - 11,861 (1.62%)
• George Wallace - 4,031 (0.55%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 3,605 (0.49%)
• Scattering - 1,142 (0.16%)

Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[11]

• Eugene McCarthy - 428,891 (71.49%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 65,430 (10.91%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 51,998 (8.67%)
• George Wallace - 24,147 (4.03%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 21,265 (3.54%)
• Richard Nixon - 3,434 (0.57%)
• Others - 2,556 (0.43%)

Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[12]

• Eugene McCarthy - 122,697 (49.30%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 68,604 (27.56%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 44,156 (17.74%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 6,890 (2.77%)
• Nelson Rockefeller - 2,275 (0.91%)
• George Wallace - 1,688 (0.68%)
• Others - 2,593 (1.04%)

Indiana Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[13]

• Robert F. Kennedy - 328,118 (42.26%)
• Roger D. Branigin - 238,700 (30.74%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 209,695 (27.01%)

Nebraska Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[14]

• Robert F. Kennedy - 84,102 (51.72%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 50,655 (31.15%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 12,087 (7.43%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 9,187 (5.65%)
• Richard Nixon - 2,731 (1.68%)
• Ronald Reagan - 1,905 (1.17%)
• George Wallace - 1,298 (0.80%)
• Others - 646 (0.40%)

Florida Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[15]

• George Smathers - 236,242 (46.11%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 147,216 (28.73%)
• Scott Kelly - 128,899 (25.16%)

Oregon Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[16]

• Eugene McCarthy - 163,990 (43.96%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 141,631 (37.96%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 45,174 (12.11%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 12,421 (3.33%)
• Ronald Reagan - 3,082 (0.83%)
• Richard Nixon - 2,974 (0.80%)
• Nelson Rockefeller - 2,841 (0.76%)
• George Wallace - 957 (0.26%)

South Dakota Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[17]

• Robert F. Kennedy - 31,826 (49.51%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson - 19,316 (30.05%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 13,145 (20.45%)

New Jersey Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[18]

• Eugene McCarthy - 9,906 (36.09%)
• Robert F. Kennedy - 8,603 (31.35%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 5,578 (20.32%)
• George Wallace - 1,399 (5.10%)
• Richard Nixon - 1,364 (4.97%)
• Others - 596 (2.17%)

California Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[19]

• Robert F. Kennedy - 1,472,166 (46.27%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 1,329,301 (41.78%)
• Thomas C. Lynch - 380,286 (11.95%)

Illinois Democratic presidential primary, 1968:[20]

• Eugene McCarthy - 4,646 (38.59%)
• Ted Kennedy - 4,052 (33.66%)
• Hubert Humphrey - 2,059 (17.10%)
• George Wallace - 768 (6.38%)
• Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 162 (1.35%)
• Others - 351 (2.92%)

1968 Democratic primary results by state

1968 Democratic presidential primaries:[21]

• 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 - 161,143 (2.14%)
• Scott Kelly - 128,899 (1.71%)
• George Wallace - 34,489 (0.46%)

1968 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):[22]

• 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):[23]

• 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 United States presidential election:

• Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R) - 31,783,783 (43.4%) and 301 electoral votes (32 states carried)
• Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (D) - 31,271,839 (42.7%) and 191 electoral votes (13 states and D.C. carried)
• George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (AI) - 9,901,118 (13.5%) and 46 electoral votes (5 states carried)
• Eugene McCarthy (I) - 25,634
• Others - 243,258 (0.3%)

Later presidential races

1972 Democratic presidential primaries:[24]

• 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):[25]

• 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 - 1 (0.03%)
• Walter Mondale - 1 (0.03%)

1972 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):

• 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 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 E. Hughes - 10 (0.34%)
• Joseph M. Montoya - 9 (0.31%)
• William L. Guy - 8 (0.27%)
• Adlai Stevenson III - 8 (0.27%)
• Robert Bergland - 5 (0.17%)
• Hodding Carter - 5 (0.17%)
• Cesar Chavez - 5 (0.17%)
• Wilbur Mills - 5 (0.17%)
• Wendell Anderson - 4 (0.14%)
• Stanley Arnold - 4 (0.14%)
• Ron Dellums - 4 (0.14%)
• John J. Houlihan - 4 (0.14%)
• Roberto A. Mondragon - 4 (0.14%)
• Reubin O'Donovan Askew - 3 (0.10%)
• Herman Badillo - 3 (0.10%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 3 (0.10%)
• Claiborne Pell - 3 (0.10%)
• Terry Sanford - 3 (0.10%)
• Ramsey Clark - 2 (0.07%)
• Richard J. Daley - 2 (0.07%)
• John DeCarlo - 2 (0.07%)
• Ernest Gruening - 2 (0.07%)
• Roger Mudd - 2 (0.07%)
• Edmund Muskie - 2 (0.07%)
• Claude Pepper - 2 (0.07%)
• Abraham Ribicoff - 2 (0.07%)
• Pat Taylor - 2 (0.07%)
• Leonard F. Woodcock - 2 (0.07%)
• Bruno Agnoli - 2 (0.07%)
• Ernest Albright - 1 (0.03%)
• William A. Barrett - 1 (0.03%)
• Daniel Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
• Phillip Berrigan - 1 (0.03%)
• Julian Bond - 1 (0.03%)
• Hargrove Bowles - 1 (0.03%)
• Archibald Burton - 1 (0.03%)
• Phillip Burton - 1 (0.03%)
• William Chappell - 1 (0.03%)
• Lawton Chiles - 1 (0.03%)
• Frank Church - 1 (0.03%)
• Robert Drinan - 1 (0.03%)
• Nick Galifianakis - 1 (0.03%)
• John Goodrich - 1 (0.03%)
• Michael Griffin - 1 (0.03%)
• Martha Griffiths - 1 (0.03%)
• Charles Hamilton - 1 (0.03%)
• Patricia Harris - 1 (0.03%)
• Jim Hunt - 1 (0.03%)
• Daniel Inouye - 1 (0.03%)
• Henry M. Jackson - 1 (0.03%)
• Robery Kariss - 1 (0.03%)
• Allard K. Lowenstein - 1 (0.03%)
• Mao Zedong - 1 (0.03%)
• Eleanor McGovern - 1 (0.03%)
• Martha Mitchell - 1 (0.03%)
• Ralph Nader - 1 (0.03%)
• George Norcross - 1 (0.03%)
• Jerry Rubin - 1 (0.03%)
• Fred Seaman - 1 (0.03%)
• Joe Smith - 1 (0.03%)
• Benjamin Spock - 1 (0.03%)
• Patrick Tavolacci - 1 (0.03%)
• George Wallace - 1 (0.03%)

1976 United States presidential election:[26]

• Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (D) - 40,831,881 (50.08%) and 297 electoral votes (23 states and D.C. carried)
• Gerald Ford (inc.)/Bob Dole (R) - 39,148,634 (48.02%) and 240 electoral votes (27 states carried)
• Ronald Reagan/Bob Dole (R) - 1 electoral vote (Washington faithless elector)
• Eugene McCarthy/Various[27] (I) - 740,460 (0.91)
• Roger MacBride/David Bergland (LBT) - 172,553 (0.21%)
• Lester Maddox/William Dyke (AI) - 170,274 0.21%
• Thomas J. Anderson/Rufus Shackelford (American) - 158,271 (0.19%)
• Peter Camejo/Willie Mae Reid (Socialist Workers) - 90,986 (0.11%)
• Gus Hall/Jarvis Tyner (Communist) - 58,709 (0.07%)
• Margareth Wright/Benjamin Spock (People's) - 49,013 (0.06%)
• Lyndon LaRouche/R. Wayne Evans (U.S. Labor) - 40,043 (0.05%)
• Others - 70,785 (0.08%)

1988 United States presidential election:[28]

• George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle (R) - 48,886,597 (53.4%) and 426 electoral votes (40 states carried)
• Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen (D) - 41,809,476 (45.6%) and 111 electoral votes (10 states and D.C. carried)
• Lloyd Bentsen/Michael Dukakis (D) - 1 electoral vote (West Virginia faithless elector)
• Ron Paul/Andre Marrou (MBT) - 431,750 (0.5%)
• Lenora Fulani/Various[29] (New Alliance) - 217,221 (0.2%)
• David Duke (Populist) - 47,043 (0.05%)
• Eugene McCarthy/Florence Rice (Consumer) - 30,905 (0.03%)

1992 Democratic presidential primaries:[30]

• Bill Clinton - 10,482,411 (52.01%)
• Jerry Brown - 4,071,232 (20.20%)
• Paul Tsongas - 3,656,010 (18.14%)
• Unpledged - 750,873 (3.73%)
• Bob Kerrey - 318,457 (1.58%)
• Tom Harkin - 280,304 (1.39%)
• Lyndon LaRouche - 154,599 (0.77%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 108,678 (0.54%)
• Charles Woods - 88,948 (0.44%)
• Larry Agran - 58,611 (0.29%)
• Ross Perot - 54,755 (0.27%)
• Ralph Nader - 35,935 (0.18%)
• Louis Stokes - 29,983 (0.15%)
• Angus Wheeler McDonald - 9,900 (0.05%)
• J. Louis McAlpine - 7,911 (0.04%)
• George W. Benns - 7,887 (0.04%)
• Rufus T. Higginbotham - 7,705 (0.04%)
• Tom Howard Hawks - 7,434 (0.04%)
• Stephen Bruke - 5,261 (0.03%)
• Tom Laughlin - 5,202 (0.03%)
• Tom Shiekman - 4,965 (0.03%)
• Jeffrey F. Marsh - 2,445 (0.01%)
• George Ballard - 2,067 (0.01%)
• Ray Rollinson - 1,206 (0.01%)
• Leonora Fulani - 402 (0.00%)
• Douglas Wilder - 240 (0.00%)

Other later races

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary for the United States Senate, 1982:[31]

• Mark Dayton - 359,014 (69.06%)
• Eugene McCarthy - 125,229 (24.09%)
• Charles E. Pearson - 19,855 (3.82%)
• William A. Branstner - 15,754 (3.03%)

References

1. "Our Campaigns - MN District 4 Race - Nov 02, 1948".
2. "Our Campaigns - MN District 4 Race - Nov 07, 1950".
3. "Our Campaigns - MN District 4 Race - Nov 04, 1952".
4. "Our Campaigns - MN District 4 Race - Nov 02, 1954".
5. "Our Campaigns - MN District 4 Race - Nov 06, 1956".
6. "Our Campaigns - MN US Senate Race - Nov 04, 1958".
7. "Our Campaigns - MN US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1964".
8. "Our Campaigns - NH US President - D Primary Race - Mar 12, 1968".
9. "Our Campaigns - NH US Vice President - D Primary Race - Mar 12, 1968". www.ourcampaigns.com.
10. "Our Campaigns - WI US President - D Primary Race - Apr 02, 1968".
11. "Our Campaigns - PA US President - D Primary Race - Apr 23, 1968".
12. "Our Campaigns - MA US President - D Primary Race - Apr 30, 1968".
13. "Our Campaigns - IN US President - D Primary Race - May 07, 1968".
14. "Our Campaigns - NE US President - D Primary Race - May 14, 1968".
15. "Our Campaigns - FL US President - D Primary Race - May 28, 1968".
16. "Our Campaigns - OR US President - D Primary Race - May 28, 1968".
17. "Our Campaigns - SD US President - D Primary Race - Jun 04, 1968".
18. "Our Campaigns - NJ US President - D Primary Race - Jun 04, 1968".
19. "Our Campaigns - CA US President - D Primary Race - Jun 04, 1968".
20. "Our Campaigns - IL US President - D Primary Race - Jun 11, 1968".
21. "Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968".
22. "Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Aug 26, 1968".
23. "Our Campaigns - US Vice President - D Convention Race - Jul 26, 1968".
24. "Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972".
25. "Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Jul 10, 1972".
26. "1976 Presidential General Election Results".
27. McCarthy running-mate varied from state to state
28. "1988 Presidential General Election Results".
29. Fulani running mate carried from state to state
30. "Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1992".
31. "Our Campaigns - MN US Senate - D Primary Race - Sep 14, 1982".