688,499 677,903 Start date November 8, 1988 | 49.8% 49.0% | |
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Winner Joe Lieberman |
The 1988 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. ran for re-election to a fourth term, but was defeated by Democrat Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Attorney General and eventual 2000 nominee for Vice President of the United States who would remain in office until 2013, when he eventually retired.
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United States Senate election in Connecticut, 1988 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA