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to increase its roster of governors
from the current 16 to parity at 25.
In the South Carolina governor’s
race, GOP Rep. Carroll Campbell Jr.
was locked in a close race with Lt.
I Gov. Mike Daniel. Republican Bob
I Martinez held the lead in Florida, as
well.
Republicans saw bitter irony in
the early trend in Senate races.
Reagan campaigned long and
hard to keep the Senate from falling
into Democratic hands, and voters in
election-place interviews gave him a
strong overall approval rating of
over 60 percent.
Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kan
sas was re-elected easily, then spent
the night wondering if he would
spend the next two years leading a
GOP minority, rather than the ma
jority he has commanded since 1984.
In another closely watched Senate
race, GOP Sen. Jeremiah Denton
pulled ahead of conservative Demo
cratic Rep. Richard Shelby. ABC
projected Denton would keep the
seat in the Republican column.
Next door m Georgia, Democratic-
Rep. Wyche Fowler led incumbent
Republican Mattingly in a Senate
race, but by a narrow margin.
In another Dixie Senate race, for
mer Democratic Gov. Terry Sanford
took an early lead over Broyhill in
North Carolina, and CBS said he
would win. Rep. John Breaux led for
the Democrats for the Louisiana
Senate seat being vacated by Demo
crat Russell B. Long.
The ranks of Democratic senators
winning new terms ran to Wendell
Ford in Kentucky, Ernest Hollings
in South Carolina, Christopher
Dodd in Connecticut, Alan Dixon in
Illinois, Patrick Leahy in Vermont,
John Glenn in Ohio and Dale Bump
ers in Arkansas.
Republican incumbents re-elected
included Sen. Dan Quayle in In
diana and Warren Rudman in New
Hampshire, as well as Dole, Charles
Grassley of Iowa, A1 D’Amato of
New York and Arlen Specter of
Pennsylvania. Republican Sen. Don
Nickles led handily in Oklahoma.
Democratic Govs. Richard Celeste
in Ohio and Joe Frank Harris in
Georgia won new terms.
In the statehouse races, Hunt won
National Election
Summary
Here is a summary of the latest election returns in the 34 races for the
U.S. Senate.
Won
Leading
Holdovers
100th Trend
99th Congress
Democrat
9
7
35
51
47
Republican
3
5
31
39
53
Other
0
0
0
0
0
NOTE: The trend line gives the anticipated netv party division for the U.S.
Senate. It is calculated by adding the number of races which each party has
won and is leading, plus officeholders not subject to election this year.
Here is a summary of the races for the U.S. House.
Democrat
Republican
Other
Won
28
19
0
Leading
133
101
0
Trend
161
120
0
Current
253
182
0
NO TE: The party breakdown of the 99th Congress counts the vacant seats in
the Illinois 4th District and the North Carolina 10th District as Republican.
The Illinois seat is vacant due to the death of Rep. George O’Brien, while Jim
Broyhill resigned the North Carolina seat when appointed to the U.S. Senate.
The trend line gives the anticipated new party division for the U.S. House. It is
calculated by adding the number of races which each party has won and is
leading.
Here are the latest returns in the races for the 36 governorships up for
election this year.
Won
Leading
Holdovers
Trend
Current
Democrat
8
9
7
24
34
Republican
1
1 1
7
19
16
Other
0
0
0
0
0
NO 1 E: 1 he trend line gives the anticipated new party division for the nation's
governorships. It is calculated by adding the number of races which each party
has won and is leading, plus officeholders not subject to election this year.
a bitter race to replace retiring Gov.
George Wallace.
Baltimore’s Democratic Mayor
William D. Schaefer was elected
Maryland’s governor.
In Tennessee’s statehouse race,
Democrat Ned McWherter beat
Winfield Dunn.
GOP Gov. John Sununu was
ahead in his bid for a third term in
New Hampshire.
Democrat-turned Republican Bob
Martinez led in his race to become
Florida governor.
The polls were still open in most
states when ABC-TV reported that
interviews with voters indicated a
strong Democratic turnout in con
gressional races in the East and Mid
west. The network said that among
2,557 voters surveyed, the only age
group that went for Republicans was
the 18-to-24 age group, which ac
counted for only three percent of
those voting.
In a survey of Senate races nation
ally, ABC said 43 percent of 5,500
voters identified themselves as Dem
ocrats and 37 percent said they were
Republicans.
Democratic pollster Harrison
Hickman, in an NBC-TV interview,
said as balloting began, “You
couldn’t dynamite a national issue
out of this electorate. People are
generally content. They’re choosing
between the personalities and char
acters of the candidates.”
President Reagan anxiously
awaited the returns, hoping voters
would not deliver the Senate to
Democratic leaders hostile to his
conservative cause. The campaign
was curiously void of any national
theme, but mudslinging was a com
mon characteristic with a dozen
races too close to predict.
“I’m not making any predictions,”
Reagan said as he boarded Air Force
One on his way back from California
to the White House. But his spokes
man, Larry Speakes said, “We still
believe we can win. It depends on
how the vote breaks in six or eight
states and on the turnout.”
Voter participation was expected
to be low, and Democratic National
Chairman Paul Kirk conceded in ad
vance, “We may not have the turn
out we’d like.” In the 1982 election,
only 41 percent of the voting-age
population went to the polls.
Many of the Republicans senators
being pressed the hardest — Hawk
ins of Florida, Steve Symms of
Idaho, James Abdnor of South Da
kota, Mark Andrews of North Da
kota and Slade Gorton of Washing
ton — sought election on their own
after first gaining office in the Rea
gan landslide of 1980.
Republicans held a 53-47 majority
in the old Senate, but the 1980 suc
cess forced them to defend 22 of the
34 seats on the ballot. With GOP
candidates outspending Democrats
by a 3-2 margin, the price tag for 34
Senate races was sure to exceed $ 150
million.
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