Electoral history of Wayne Morse Facts for Kids

Electoral history of Wayne Morse, United States Senator from Oregon, candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination and Oregon favorite-son candidate in the 1952 Republican presidential primaries.

Originally a Republican, Morse became an independent in 1952 and a Democrat in 1955.

1944
1950
1952
1956
1960
1962
1968
- Primary election
- General election
1972
1974

1944

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1944
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wayne Morse	269,095	60.71
	Democratic	Edgar W. Smith	174,140	39.29
Total votes			443,235	100.00
	Republican hold

1950

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1950
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wayne Morse (incumbent)	376,510	74.79
	Democratic	Howard LaTourette	116,780	23.20
	Progressive	Harlin Talbert	10,165	2.02
Total votes			503,455	100.00
	Republican hold

1952

Oregon Republican presidential primary, 1952:

Dwight D. Eisenhower - 172,486 (64.55%)
Earl Warren - 44,034 (16.48%)
Douglas MacArthur - 18,603 (6.96%)
Robert A. Taft (write-in) - 18,009 (6.74%)
Wayne Morse - 7,105 (2.66%)
Harold Stassen - 6,610 (2.47%)
William R. Schneider - 350 (0.13%)

1952 Republican presidential primaries:

Robert A. Taft - 2,794,736 (35.84%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower - 2,050,708 (26.30%)
Earl Warren - 1,349,036 (17.30%)
Harold Stassen - 881,702 (11.31%)
Thomas H. Werdel - 521,110 (6.68%)
George T. Mickelson - 63,879 (0.82%)
Douglas MacArthur - 44,209 (0.57%)
Grant A. Ritter - 26,208 (0.34%)
Edward C. Slettedahl - 22,712 (0.29%)
Riley A. Bender - 22,321 (0.29%)
Mary E. Kenny - 10,411 (0.13%)
Wayne Morse - 7,105 (0.09%)
Perry J. Stearns - 2,925 (0.04%)
William R. Schneider - 580 (0.01%)

1956

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1956
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Wayne Morse (incumbent)	396,849	54.20
	Republican	Douglas McKay	335,405	45.80
Total votes			732,254	100.00
	Democratic hold

1960

District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, 1960:

Hubert Humphrey - 8,239 (57.35%)
Wayne Morse - 6,127 (42.65%)

Maryland Democratic presidential primary, 1960:

John F. Kennedy - 201,769 (70.31%)
Wayne Morse - 49,420 (17.22%)
Unpledged - 24,350 (8.49%)
Lar Daly - 7,536 (2.63%)
Andrew J. Easter - 3,881 (1.35%)

Oregon Democratic presidential primary, 1960:

John F. Kennedy - 146,332 (50.97%)
Wayne Morse - 91,715 (31.95%)
Hubert Humphrey - 16,319 (5.68%)
Stuart Symington - 12,496 (4.35%)
Lyndon B. Johnson - 11,101 (3.87%)
Adlai Stevenson (write-in) - 7,924 (2.76%)
Others - 1,210 (0.42%)

1960 Democratic presidential primaries:

John F. Kennedy - 1,847,259 (31.43%)
Pat Brown - 1,354,031 (23.04%)
George H. McLain - 646,387 (11.00%)
Hubert Humphrey - 590,410 (10.05%)
George Smathers - 322,235 (5.48%)
Michael DiSalle - 315,312 (5.37%)
Unpledged - 241,958 (4.12%)
Albert S. Porter - 208,057 (3.54%)
Wayne Morse - 147,262 (2.51%)
Adlai Stevenson - 51,833 (0.88%)
Lar Daly - 48,389 (0.82%)
John H. Latham - 42,084 (0.72%)
Stuart Symington - 29,740 (0.51%)
Richard Nixon - 16,899 (0.29%)
Lyndon B. Johnson - 15,691 (0.27%)

1962

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Wayne Morse (incumbent)	344,716	54.15
	Republican	Sig Unander	291,587	45.81
	none	write-ins	253	0.04
Total votes			636,556	100.00
	Democratic hold

1968

Primary election

* Robert B. Duncan * Wayne Morse

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Oregon, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Wayne Morse (incumbent)	185,091	49.03
	Democratic	Robert B. Duncan	174,795	46.30
	Democratic	Phil McAlmond	17,658	4.68
Total votes			377,544	100.00

General election

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bob Packwood	408,646	50.20
	Democratic	Wayne Morse (incumbent)	405,353	49.80
Total votes			813,999	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

1972

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Oregon, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Wayne Morse	173,147	43.70
	Democratic	Robert B. Duncan	130,845	33.03
	Democratic	Don Willner	74,060	18.69
	Democratic	Ralph Wiser	17,729	4.48
	Democratic	miscellaneous	423	0.11
Total votes			396,204	100.00

Democratic nomination for the Vice President of the United States, 1972:

Vote to replace original candidate Thomas Eagleton, nominated at the 1972 Democratic National Convention and then removed from the ticket

Sargent Shriver - 2,936 (97.44%)
Thomas Eagleton - 73 (2.42%)
Wayne Morse - 4 (0.13%)

United States Senate election in Oregon, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mark Hatfield (incumbent)	488,477	53.63
	Democratic	Wayne Morse	421,205	46.25
	none	miscellaneous	1,127	0.12
Total votes			910,809	100.00
	Republican hold

1974

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Oregon, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Wayne Morse	155,729	48.98
	Democratic	Jason Boe	125,055	39.33
	Democratic	Robert T. Daly	21,881	6.88
	Democratic	Robert E. O'Connor	14,984	4.71
	Democratic	miscellaneous	319	0.10
Total votes			396,204	100.00

Note: Morse died before the general election and was replaced on the ballot by Betty Roberts.

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