Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy
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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.
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 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%)