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The 1962 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carl Hayden ran for reelection to a seventh term, defeating Republican State Senator Evan Mecham in the general election. Mecham became Governor of Arizona more than two decades later, and was subsequently impeached and removed from office.
This would be Hayden's final run for U.S. Senate, as he would be succeeded in office by Barry Goldwater in 1968. This was the last time Democrats won the Class 3 Senate seat from Arizona until Mark Kelly's victory in the 2020 special election, and the last time until 2022, when Kelly was reelected, that Democrats won a full term in this seat.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Carl T. Hayden (incumbent) | 117,688 | 76.5% | |
Democratic | W. Lee McLane | 36,158 | 23.5% | |
Total votes | 153,846 | 100.0% |
State Senator Evan Mecham ran for U.S. Senate, and was challenged by political operative and strategist Stephen Shadegg. Shadegg, who had served as campaign manager for both Republican and Democratic candidates, had run at the urging of Senator Barry Goldwater, but Goldwater failed to officially endorse any candidate in the Republican primary. [2] Shadegg later said that he was "terribly let down" by Goldwater's position of neutrality in the primary after Goldwater had urged Shadegg to seek the seat. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Evan Mecham | 40,300 | 59.0% | |
Republican | Stephen Shadegg | 27,965 | 41.0% | |
Total votes | 68,265 | 100.0% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Carl T. Hayden (incumbent) | 199,217 | 54.94% | -6.45% | |
Republican | Evan Mecham | 163,388 | 45.06% | +6.45% | |
Majority | 35,829 | 9.88% | -12.89% | ||
Turnout | 362,605 | ||||
Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
The 1968 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate. Held on November 5, the 34 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections. They coincided with the presidential election of the same year. The Republicans picked up five net seats in the Senate. This saw Republicans win a Senate seat in Florida for the first time since Reconstruction.
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