United States Senate elections, 1968

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The 1968 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate which coincided with the 1968 presidential election. Richard Nixon only won the presidential election narrowly, but the Republicans picked up five net seats in the election (not including two appointments that turned seats over to Republicans in the same year).

Republicans won open seats in Arizona and Florida and defeated Democratic incumbents Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania, Daniel Brewster of Maryland, A. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Wayne Morse of Oregon, as well as taking the seat of Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, who had been defeated in a primary by John J. Gilligan. Democrats won an open seat in Iowa as well as taking the seat of Thomas Kuchel of California, who had been defeated in a primary by Max Rafferty.

In addition, Republican Charles Goodell was appointed in September to the seat of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy of New York, and Ted Stevens was appointed in December to the seat of deceased Bob Bartlett of Alaska, bringing the net shift up to seven, although Democrats continued to control the chamber 57-43.

[edit] Senate contests in 1968

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Alabama	J. Lister Hill	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	James Allen (Democratic) 70.0% Perry O. Hooper, Sr. (Republican) 22.1% Robert Schwenn (Independent) 8.0%
Alaska	Ernest Gruening	Democratic	Defeated in primary, Democratic victory	Mike Gravel (Democratic) 45.1% Elmer E. Rasmuson (Republican) 37.4% Ernest Gruening (running as Independent) 17.4%
Arizona	Carl Hayden	Democratic	Retired, Republican victory	Barry Goldwater (Republican) 57.2% Roy Elson (Democratic) 42.8%
Arkansas	J. William Fulbright	Democratic	Re-elected, 59.2%	Charles T. Bernard (Republican) 40.9%
California	Thomas Kuchel	Republican	Defeated in primary, Democratic victory	Alan Cranston (Democratic) 51.8% Max Rafferty (Republican) 46.9% Paul Jacobs (Peace & Freedom) 1.3%
Colorado	Peter H. Dominick	Republican	Re-elected, 58.6%	Stephen L.R. McNichols (Democratic) 41.5%
Connecticut	Abraham A. Ribicoff	Democratic	Re-elected, 54.3%	Edwin H. May, Jr. (Republican) 45.7%
Florida	George Smathers	Democratic	Retired, Republican victory	Edward J. Gurney (Republican) 55.9% LeRoy Collins (Democratic) 44.1%
Georgia	Herman Talmadge	Democratic	Re-elected, 77.5%	E. Earl Patton (Republican) 22.5%
Hawaii	Daniel Inouye	Democratic	Re-elected, 83.4%	Wayne C. Thiessen (Republican) 15.0%
Idaho	Frank Church	Democratic	Re-elected, 60.3%	George V. Hansen (Republican) 39.7%
Illinois	Everett Dirksen	Republican	Re-elected, 53.0%	William G. Clark (Democratic) 46.6%
Indiana	Birch Bayh	Democratic	Re-elected, 51.7%	William Ruckelshaus (Republican) 48.2%
Iowa	Bourke B. Hickenlooper	Republican	Retired, Democratic victory	Harold Hughes (Democratic) 50.3% David M. Stanley (Republican) 49.7%
Kansas	Frank Carlson	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Bob Dole (Republican) 60.1% William I. Robinson (Democratic) 38.7%
Kentucky	Thruston Ballard Morton	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Marlow W. Cook (Republican) 51.4% Katherine Peden (Democratic) 47.6%
Louisiana	Russell B. Long	Democratic	Re-elected, unopposed
Maryland	Daniel Brewster	Democratic	Defeated, 39.1%	Charles Mathias, Jr. (Republican) 47.8% George P. Mahoney (American Independent) 13.1%
Missouri	Edward V. Long	Democratic	Defeated in primary, Democratic victory	Thomas Eagleton (Democratic) 51.1% Thomas B. Curtis (Republican) 48.9%
Nevada	Alan Bible	Democratic	Re-elected, 54.8%	Ed Fike (Republican) 45.2%
New Hampshire	Norris Cotton	Republican	Re-elected, 59.3%	John W. King (Democratic) 40.7%
New York	Jacob K. Javits	Republican	Re-elected, 49.7%	Paul O'Dwyer (Democratic) 32.7% James L. Buckley (Conservative) 17.3%
North Carolina	Sam Ervin	Democratic	Re-elected, 60.6%	Robert V. Somers (Republican) 39.4%
North Dakota	Milton Young	Republican	Re-elected, 64.6%	Herschel Lashkowitz (Democratic) 33.7%
Ohio	Frank J. Lausche	Democratic	Defeated in primary, Republican victory	William B. Saxbe (Republican) 51.5% John J. Gilligan (Democratic) 48.5%
Oklahoma	A. S. Mike Monroney	Democratic	Defeated, 46.2%	Henry Bellmon (Republican) 51.7%
Oregon	Wayne Morse	Democratic	Defeated, 49.8%	Bob Packwood (Republican) 50.2%
Pennsylvania	Joseph S. Clark	Democratic	Defeated, 45.8%	Richard Schweiker (Republican) 51.9%
South Carolina	Ernest Hollings	Democratic	Re-elected, 61.9%	Marshall Parker (Republican) 38.1%
South Dakota	George McGovern	Democratic	Re-elected, 56.8%	Archie M. Gubbrud (Republican) 43.2%
Utah	Wallace F. Bennett	Republican	Re-elected, 53.7%	Milton N. Wellenmann (Democratic) 45.8%
Vermont	George Aiken	Republican	Re-elected, 99.9%
Washington	Warren G. Magnuson	Democratic	Re-elected, 64.4%	Jack Metcalf (Republican) 35.3%
Wisconsin	Gaylord Nelson	Democratic	Re-elected, 67.7%	Jerris Leonard (Republican) 38.3%