1958_United_States_Senate_elections_in_Alaska Knowpia

1958 class 3 Senate election
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	<img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/1958_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska_results_map_by_borough_%28Class_III%29.svg/350px-1958_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska_results_map_by_borough_%28Class_III%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="214" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="489"> Results by election district; Gruening: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%; Stepovich: 50–60% 60–70%
	Elected U.S. Senator ; Ernest Gruening; Democratic

1958 class 2 Senate election
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	<img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/1958_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska_results_map_by_borough_%28Class_II%29.svg/350px-1958_United_States_Senate_election_in_Alaska_results_map_by_borough_%28Class_II%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="214" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="489"> Results by election district; Bartlett: 70–80% 80–90%
	Elected U.S. Senator ; Bob Bartlett; Democratic

The 1958 United States Senate elections in Alaska were held November 25, 1958. The elections were held in anticipation of Alaska's admission as the forty-ninth state in the union, effective January 3, 1959. The state held two simultaneous elections to determine their first senators.

Both elections were won by the Democratic Party. The new senators, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, were sworn into office alongside those senators elected in the 1958 United States Senate elections held three weeks earlier.

Class 2 edit

This election was for the class 2 term expiring in 1961. It was won by Democrat Bob Bartlett.

Democratic primary edit

Candidates edit

Bob Bartlett, Territorial Delegate at-large to the U.S. House of Representatives

Results edit

Delegate Bartlett was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Alaska regular election (class 2)^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bob Bartlett	38,642	100.00%
Total votes			38,642	100.00%

Republican primary edit

Candidates edit

R. E. Robertson, attorney and former Mayor of Juneau

Results edit

Robertson was unopposed for the Republican nomination.

Alaska regular election (class 2)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	R. E. Robertson	8,049	100.00%
Total votes			8,049	100.00%

General election edit

Results edit

Alaska regular election (class 2)^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bob Bartlett	40,939	83.83%
	Republican	R. E. Robertson	7,299	14.95%
	Independent	Keith Capper (write-in)	599	1.23%
Majority			33,640	68.88%
Turnout			48,837
	Democratic win (new seat)

Class 3 edit

This election was for the class 3 term expiring in 1963. It was won by Democrat Ernest Gruening.

General election edit

Candidates edit

Ernest Gruening, former Territorial Governor (1939–1953) (Democratic)
Mike Stepovich, incumbent Territorial Governor (Republican)

Results edit

Alaska regular election (class 3)^[3]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Ernest Gruening	26,045	52.61%
	Republican	Mike Stepovich	23,464	47.39%
Majority			2,581	5.22%
Turnout			49,509
	Democratic win (new seat)

References edit

^ "Our Campaigns - AK US Senate Race - Nov 25, 1958". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
^ "Our Campaigns - AK US Senate Race - Nov 25, 1958". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (March 16, 1959). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1958" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.
^ "Our Campaigns - AK US Senate Race - Nov 25, 1958". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ "Our Campaigns - AK US Senate Race - Nov 25, 1958". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 23, 2021.