1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi

The 1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 1978. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James Eastland decided to retire. Republican Thad Cochran won the open seat.

November 5, 1978


Nominee	Thad Cochran	Maurice Dantin	Charles Evers
Party	Republican	Democratic	Independent
Popular vote	267,302	187,541	133,646
Percentage	45.3%	31.8%	22.6%

County results
Cochran:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Dantin:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Evers:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

U.S. senator before election

James Eastland
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Thad Cochran
Republican

Federal government

U.S. President
1820 1824 1828 1832 1836 1840 1844 1848 1852 1856 1860 1872 1876 1880 1884 1888 1892 1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 Dem Rep 2012 2016 Dem Rep 2020 Dem
U.S. Senate
1817 1820 1820 sp. 1823 1823 1826 sp. 1828 1830 sp. 1833 sp. 1835 1838 1839 sp. 1841 1844 1846 sp. 1848 sp. 1850 1852 sp. 1852 sp. 1854 sp. 1859 1870 1874 1874 sp. 1876 1880 1883 1886 1886 sp. 1889 1892 1894 sp. 1899 1900 1900 sp. 1904 1906 1908 1910 sp. 1912 1916 1918 1922 1924 1928 1930 1934 1936 1940 1941 sp. 1942 1946 1947 sp. 1948 1952 1954 1958 1960 1964 1966 1970 1972 1976 1978 1982 1984 1988 1990 1994 1996 2000 2002 2006 2008 2008 sp. 2012 2014 2018 2018 sp. 2020
U.S. House
1801 1802 (Terr sp) 1806 1817 1819 1820 1822 1824 1826 At-large sp 1828 At-large sp 1830 1832 1835 1837 1839 1841 1843 1845 1847 1849 1851 1853 1855 1857 1858 5th sp 1859 1865 1868 1869 1872 1874 1876 1878 1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1934 1940 1942 1946 1950 1956 1962 1968 3rd sp 1972 1980 1981 4th sp 1982 1984 1986 1988 1989 5th sp 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2006 2008 1st sp 2010 2012 2014 2015 1st sp 2016 2018 2020

State government

State elections
2003 2007 2015 2019
Gubernatorial elections
1873 1877 1881 1885 1889 1895 1899 1903 1907 1911 1915 1919 1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Attorney General elections
2015 2019

Democratic primary

Candidates

Maurice Dantin, former District Attorney[1]
Cliff Finch, Governor of Mississippi
Charles L. Sullivan, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
Bill Waller, former Governor of Mississippi

Results

Democratic primary results[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Maurice Dantin	102,968	29.01%
	Democratic	Cliff Finch	98,751	27.83%
	Democratic	Charles L. Sullivan	78,702	22.18%
	Democratic	William L. Waller	74,465	20.98%
Total votes			354,886	100%

Runoff results

Democratic primary runoff results[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Maurice Dantin	235,904	65.35%
	Democratic	Cliff Finch	125,109	34.66%
Total votes			361,013	100%

Republican primary

Candidates

Thad Cochran, U.S. Congressman
Charles W. Pickering, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party

Results

Republican primary results[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Thad Cochran	50,857	68.97%
	Republican	Charles W. Pickering	22,880	31.03%
Total votes			73,737	100%

Independent

Charles Evers, Mayor of Fayette
Henry Jay Kirksey

Campaign

Evers was the first African American elected since the Reconstruction era to be mayor in any Mississippi city in 1969. He ran as an independent, and as a result his campaign divided the Democrats and allowed Cochran to win the senate seat with a 45 percent plurality.[5] This made Cochran the first Republican in a century to win a statewide election (other than a presidential election) in Mississippi.[6] Eastland resigned on December 27, 1978 to give Cochran a seniority advantage over new incoming senators.[7]

Results

Mississippi U.S. Senate Election, 1978[8][9]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Republican	Thad Cochran	267,302	45.3%
Democratic	Maurice Dantin	187,541	31.8%
Independent	Charles Evers	133,646	22.6%
Independent	Henry Jay Kirksey	1,747	0.3%
Republican gain from Democratic

References

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5ngsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yvoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7196,1592291&dq=maurice+dantin&hl=en
"MS US Senate - D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
"MS US Senate - D Runoff Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
"MS US Senate - R Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
Black, Earl; Merle Black (2003). The Rise of Southern Republicans. Harvard University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-674-01248-6.
"Results of Elections Across the Nation". The Blade. November 7, 1978. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
Associated Press (December 27, 1978). "Eastland Quits Early To Aid His Successor". The Blade. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=5320
Clerk of the United States House of Representatives (1979). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1978" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.

(1977 ←) 1978 United States elections (→ 1979)
U.S. Senate	Alabama Alabama (special) Alaska Arkansas Colorado Delaware Georgia Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Minnesota (special) Mississippi Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Wyoming
U.S. House	Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York 18th sp 21st sp North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Islands Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia United States Virgin Islands Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Governors	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Vermont Wisconsin Wyoming
State legislatures	Iowa Senate Minnesota House

Notable third party performances in United States elections
* Third party is endorsed by a major party
Presidential (since 1832)	1832 1848 1856 1860 1872* 1892 1912 1924 1948 1960 1968 1980 1992 1996
Senatorial (since 1950)	Alabama 1950 New Hampshire 1950 California 1952 Maine 1952 New York 1952 North Dakota 1952 Virginia 1952 South Carolina 1954 (Democratic Write-In) Virginia 1954 Utah 1958 Vrginia 1958 Virginia 1960 Virginia 1964 Mississippi 1966 Virginia 1966 Virginia 1966 Alabama 1968 Alaska 1968 Maryland 1968 New York 1968 Connecticut 1970 Mississippi 1970 New York 1970 Virginia 1970 Louisiana 1972 Florida 1974 Hawaii 1974 New York 1974 Utah 1974 Minnesota 1976 Virginia 1976 Alabama 1978 Arkansas 1978 Maine 1978 Mississippi 1978 New York 1980 Washington 1982 Tennessee 1984 Virginia 1990 Alaska 1992 Arizona 1992 Hawaii 1992 Louisiana 1992 Ohio 1992 Arizona 1994 Minnesota 1994 Ohio 1994 Vermont 1994 Virginia 1994 Alaska 1996 Minnesota 1996 Arizona 2000 Massachusetts 2000 Minnesota 2000 Alaska 2002 Kansas 2002 Massachusetts 2002 Mississippi 2002 Oklahoma 2002 Virginia 2002 Oklahoma 2004 Connecticut 2006 Indiana 2006 Maine 2006 Vermont 2006* Arkansas 2008 Idaho 2008 Minnesota 2008 Oregon 2008 Alaska 2010 (Republican Write-In) Florida 2010 Indiana 2010 South Carolina 2010 Utah 2010 Indiana 2012 Maine 2012 Maryland 2012 Missouri 2012 Montana 2012 Vermont 2012* Kansas 2014 South Dakota 2014 Wyoming 2014 Alaska 2016 Arizona 2016 Idaho 2016 Indiana 2016 Kansas 2016 Maine 2018 New Mexico 2018 Vermont 2018* Alaska 2020* Arkansas 2020 Minnesota 2020 Nebraska 2020
Gubernatorial (since 1950)	Tennessee 1950 Maine 1952 Vermont 1952 Tennessee 1954 Nebraska 1956 Texas 1956 Utah 1956 Oklahoma 1958 Tennessee 1958 North Dakota 1960 Tennessee 1962 Virginia 1965 Alabama 1966 Georgia 1966 Idaho 1966 Maryland 1966 New York 1966 Tennessee 1966 Alabama 1970 Arkansas 1970 New Hampshire 1970 New York 1970 Mississippi 1971 New Hampshire 1972 Texas 1972 Washington 1972 Virginia 1973 Maine 1974 Nebraska 1974 Nevada 1974 Texas 1974 Vermont 1976 Alaska 1978 California 1978 Maine 1978 Rhode Island 1978 Alaska 1982 Arizona 1982 Hawaii 1982 Alaska 1986 Arizona 1986 Illinois 1986 Maine 1986 Oklahoma 1986 Vermont 1986 Utah 1988 Alaska 1990 Connecticut 1990 Kansas 1990 Maine 1990 New York 1990 Oklahoma 1990 Oregon 1990 Utah 1992 West Virginia 1992 Alaska 1994 Connecticut 1994 Hawaii 1994 Maine 1994 New Mexico 1994 Oklahoma 1994 Pennsylvania 1994 Rhode Island 1994 Vermont 1994 Alaska 1998 Maine 1998 Minnesota 1998 New York 1998 Pennsylvania 1998 Rhode Island 1998 Kentucky 1999 New Hampshire 2000 Vermont 2000 Arizona 2002 California 2002 Maine 2002 Minnesota 2002 New Mexico 2002 New York 2002 Oklahoma 2002 Vermont 2002 Wisconsin 2002 Alaska 2006 Illinois 2006 Maine 2006 Massachusetts 2006 Minnesota 2006 Texas 2006 Louisiana 2007 Vermont 2008 New Jersey 2009 Colorado 2010 Idaho 2010 Maine 2010 Massachusetts 2010 Minnesota 2010 Rhode Island 2010 Wyoming 2010 Kentucky 2011 Virginia 2013 Alaska 2014* Hawaii 2014 Maine 2014 Rhode Island 2014 Wyoming 2014 Maine 2018 Kansas 2018 Indiana 2020 Vermont 2020*
Portal:Politics Third party (United States) Third party officeholders in the United States Third-party members of the United States House of Representatives

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Runoff results

Republican primary

Candidates

Results

Independent

Campaign

Results

See also

References