United States Senate election in Indiana, 1976

November 2, 1976



Nominee	Richard Lugar	Vance Hartke
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	1,275,833	868,522
Percentage	59.0%	40.2%

U.S. Senator before election

Vance Hartke
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Richard Lugar
Republican

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The 1976 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 2, 1976. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Vance Hartke ran for re-election to a fourth term, but was defeated by Republican challenger Richard Lugar.

Major candidates

Democratic

Vance Hartke, Incumbent U.S. Senator since 1959

Republican

Richard Lugar, Mayor of Indianapolis

Results

General election results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Richard Lugar	1,275,833	59.03%
	Democratic	Vance Hartke (Incumbent)	868,522	40.19%
		Don L. Lee	14,321	0.66%
	U.S. Labor	David Lee Hoagland	2,511	0.12%
Majority			407,311	18.85%
Turnout			2,161,187
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing

References

↑ http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf

United States elections, 1976

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