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The United States Senate election of 1964 in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1964. Democratic Thomas J. Dodd was re-elected and served a second term. John Davis Lodge, grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge was defeated by almost 30%.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Democratic | Thomas J. Dodd (incumbent) | 781,008 | 64.66% | ||
| Republican | John Davis Lodge | 426,939 | 35.34% | ||
| Majority | 354,069 | 29.32% | |||
| Turnout | 1,207,947 | ||||
| Democratic hold | |||||
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. His successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his penned conditions against that treaty, known collectively as the Lodge reservations, influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.
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