Electoral history of Ted Kennedy

United States Senate races

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1962:

Ted Kennedy – 559,303 (69.33%)

Edward J. McCormack, Jr. – 247,403 (30.67%)

Massachusetts United States Senate special election, 1962:

Ted Kennedy (D) – 1,162,611 (55.44%)

George Cabot Lodge (R) – 877,668 (41.85%)

H. Stuart Hughes (I) – 50,013 (2.38%)

Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 5,330 (0.25%)

Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) – 1,439 (0.07%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1964:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,716,907 (74.26%)

Howard J. Whitmore, Jr. (R) – 587,663 (25.42%)

Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 4,745 (0.21%)

Grace F. Luder (Prohibition) – 2,700 (0.12%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,202,856 (62.16%)

Josiah Spaulding (R) – 715,978 (37.00%)

Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) – 10,378 (0.54%)

Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) – 5,944 (0.31%)

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1976:

Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 534,725 (73.86%)

Robert E. Dinsmore – 117,496 (16.23%)

Frederick C. Langone – 59,315 (8.19%)

Bernard Shannon – 12,399 (1.71%)

Others – 53 (0.01%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1976:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,726,657 (69.31%)

Michael S. Robertson (R) – 722,641 (29.01%)

Carol Henderson Evans (Socialist Workers) – 26,283 (1.06%)

H. Graham Lowry (US Labor) – 15,517 (0.62%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1982:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,247,084 (60.82%)

Ray Shamie (R) – 784,602 (38.26%)

Howard S. Katz (Libertarian) – 18,878 (0.92%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1988:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,693,344 (64.97%)

Joseph D. Malone (R) – 884,267 (33.93%)

Mary Fridley (New Alliance) – 15,208 (0.58%)

Frede Lee Nanson (Libertarian) – 13,199 (0.51%)

Others – 207 (0.01%)

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 1994:

Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 391,637 (98.87%)

Others – 4,498 (1.14%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1994:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,265,997 (58.08%)

Mitt Romney (R) – 894,000 (41.01%)

Lauraleigh Dozier (Libertarian) – 14,484 (0.66%)

William A. Ferguson, Jr. (LaRouche Movement) – 4,776 (0.22%)

Others – 688 (0.03%)

Massachusetts Democratic primary for the United States Senate, 2000:

Ted Kennedy (inc.) – 236,883 (98.97%)

Others – 2,467 (1.03%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2000:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,887,479 (72.61%)

Jack E. Robinson III (R) – 334,700 (12.88%)

Carla Howell (Libertarian) – 308,748 (11.88%)

Philip F. Lawler (Constitution) – 42,316 (1.63%)

Dale E. Friedgen (I) – 15,453 (0.59%)

R. Philip Hyde (I) – 8,444 (0.33%)

Others – 2,474 (0.10%)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2006:

Ted Kennedy (D) (inc.) – 1,500,738 (69.30%)

Kenneth Chase (R) – 661,532 (30.55%)

Others – 3,220 (0.15%)

Presidential and Vice Presidential races

Senator Kennedy ran for president only once, in 1980.

1964 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary:

All votes were cast as write-ins

Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 61,035 (72.91%)

Robert F. Kennedy – 15,870 (18.96%)

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. – 2,269 (2.71%)

Ted Kennedy – 1,259 (1.50%)

Adlai Stevenson II – 952 (1.14%)

George Wallace – 565 (0.68%)

Hubert Humphrey – 323 (0.39%)

1968 Democratic Presidential primaries:

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 delegates – 161,143 (2.14%)

Scott Kelly – 128,899 (1.71%)

George Wallace – 34,489 (0.46%)

Richard Nixon – 13,610 (0.18%)

Ronald Reagan – 5,309 (0.07%)

Ted Kennedy – 4,052 (0.05%)

Paul C. Fisher – 506 (0.01%)

John G. Crommelin – 186 (0.00%)

1968 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):

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):

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%)

Liberal Party presidential convention, 1968:

Hubert Humphrey – 199 (89.64%)

Abstaining – 11 (4.96%)

None of these candidates – 11 (4.96%)

Ted Kennedy – 1 (0.45%)

1972 Democratic presidential primaries:

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):

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):

1976 Democratic presidential primaries:

Jimmy Carter – 6,235,609 (39.27%)

Jerry Brown – 2,449,374 (15.43%)

George Wallace – 1,955,388 (12.31%)

Mo Udall – 1,611,754 (10.15%)

Henry M. Jackson – 1,134,375 (7.14%)

Frank Church – 830,818 (5.23%)

Robert Byrd – 340,309 (2.14%)

Sargent Shriver – 304,399 (1.92%)

Unpledged – 283,437 (1.79%)

Ellen McCormack – 238,027 (1.50%)

Fred R. Harris – 234,568 (1.48%)

Milton Shapp – 88,254 (0.56%)

Birch Bayh – 86,438 (0.54%)

Hubert Humphrey – 61,992 (0.39%)

Ted Kennedy – 19,805 (0.13%)

Lloyd Bentsen – 4,046 (0.03%)

Terry Sanford – 404 (0.00%)

1976 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):

Jimmy Carter – 2,239 (74.48%)

Mo Udall – 330 (10.98%)

Jerry Brown – 301 (10.01%)

George Wallace – 57 (1.90%)

Ellen McCormack – 22 (0.73%)

Frank Church – 19 (0.63%)

Hubert Humphrey – 10 (0.33%)

Henry M. Jackson – 10 (0.33%)

Fred R. Harris – 9 (0.30%)

Milton Shapp – 2 (0.07%)

Robert Byrd – 2 (0.07%)

Hugh Carey, Cesar Chavez, Leon Jaworski, Barbara Jordan, Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Jennings Randolph, Fred Stover – each 1 vote (0.03%)

1980 Democratic presidential primaries:

Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 10,043,016 (51.13%)

Ted Kennedy – 7,381,693 (37.58%)

Unpledged – 1,288,423 (6.56%)

Jerry Brown – 575,296 (2.93%)

Lyndon LaRouche – 177,784 (0.91%)

Cliff Finch – 48,032 (0.25%)

1980 Democratic National Convention (Presidential tally):

Jimmy Carter (inc.) – 2,123 (64.04%)

Ted Kennedy – 1,151 (34.72%)

William Proxmire – 10 (0.30%)

Koryne Kaneski Horbal – 5 (0.15%)

Scott M. Matheson, Sr. – 5 (0.15%)

Ron Dellums – 3 (0.09%)

Robert Byrd – 2 (0.06%)

John Culver – 2 (0.06%)

Kent Hance – 2 (0.06%)

Jennings Randolph – 2 (0.06%)

Warren Spannaus – 2 (0.06%)

Alice Tripp – 2 (0.06%)

Jerry Brown – 1 (0.03%)

Dale Bumpers – 1 (0.03%)

Hugh L. Carey – 1 (0.03%)

Walter Mondale – 1 (0.03%)

Edmund Muskie – 1 (0.03%)

Thomas J. Steed – 1 (0.03%)