1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina
November 6, 1962
 
Nominee Sam Ervin Claude Greene
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 491,520 321,635
Percentage 60.45% 39.55%
County results
Ervin:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Greene:      50-60%      60-70%
Senator before election

Sam Ervin
Democratic

 Elected Senator

Sam Ervin
Democratic

The 1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic Senator Sam Ervin was re-elected to a second term in office over Republican farmer[1] Claude Greene Jr.

Ervin was elected to a second full (six-year) term, though by a somewhat smaller margin than he enjoyed in his victory in 1956.

Democratic primary

Ervin was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Republican primary

Results

1962 Republican Senate primary[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Claude Greene, Jr. 31,756 61.07%
Republican Charles H. Babcock 20,246 38.93%
Total votes 52,002 100.00%

General election

Results

1962 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Sam Ervin (incumbent) 491,520 60.45% Decrease6.11
Republican Claude Greene, Jr. 321,635 39.55% Increase6.11
Total votes 813,155 100.00%

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers by Karl E. Campbell
  2. ↑ Ourcampaigns.com: Republican primary
  3. ↑ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1962" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved March 2, 2021.


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