1952 United States Senate election in Washington
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The United States Senate election in Washington of 1952 was held on November 4, 1952. Incumbent and highly-controversial Republican Harry Cain ran for a second term in office, but was defeated by Democratic U.S. Representative Henry M. Jackson. Jackson would come to serve 30 years as a United States Senator, and this would be his only election to the Senate in which he lost any of the state’s counties.
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Blanket primary
editCandidates
editDemocratic
edit- Henry M. Jackson, U.S. Representative from Everett
Republican
edit- Harry Cain, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1946
- Carl Viking Holman
- Ed F. Oldfield
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Henry M. Jackson | 326,341 | 48.84% | |
| Republican | Harry Cain (incumbent) | 261,244 | 39.09% | |
| Republican | Carl Viking Holman | 49,411 | 7.39% | |
| Republican | Ed F. Oldfield | 31,243 | 4.68% | |
| Total votes | 668,239 | 100.00% | ||
General election
editResults
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Henry M. Jackson | 595,288 | 56.23% |  11.09
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| Republican | Harry Cain (incumbent) | 460,884 | 43.53% |  10.81
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| Progressive | Thomas C. Rabbitt | 1,912 | 0.18% | N/A | |
| Socialist Labor | Henry M. Killman | 651 | 0.06% | 0.29
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| Total votes | 1,058,735 | 100.00% | |||
| Democratic gain from Republican | Swing | ||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Elections Search Results - September 1952 Primary". Washington Secretary of State. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1952" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved April 3, 2021.