1964 United States Senate election in Florida
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November 3, 1964
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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. Kirk would go on to be elected governor in 1966. This was the first time since 1950 that a Republican won a county in a U.S. Senate race in Florida.
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 | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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), incumbent Senator
- Claude R. Kirk Jr. (R), Florida campaign manager for Richard Nixon in 1960
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Spessard Holland (inc.) | 997,585 | 63.93% |  7.30 | |
| Republican | Claude R. Kirk Jr. | 562,212 | 36.03% |  7.26 | |
| Write-in | 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.
