1958 United States Senate election in Connecticut
The United States Senate election of 1958 in Connecticut was held on November 4, 1958. Democratic Thomas J. Dodd defeated incumbent senator William A. Purtell who ran for a second term.
 | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Elections in Connecticut | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
This was one of ten seats Democrats gained from the Republican Party in 1958, part of a record swing (including the elections of new Senators from Alaska and Hawaii).
General election
Candidates
- Thomas J. Dodd, U.S. Representative from Old Lyme (Democratic)
- Vivien Kellems, industrialist, inventor, and tax protestor (Independent)
- William A. Purtell, incumbent Senator since 1953 (Republican
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Thomas J. Dodd | 554,841 | 57.29% | ||
| Republican | William A. Purtell (incumbent) | 410,622 | 42.40% | ||
| Independent | Vivien Kellems | 3,043 | 0.31% | ||
| Total votes | 968,506 | 100.00% | |||
| Democratic gain from Republican | |||||
gollark: Doesn't that mean that your thing might end up seeing some data twice? Unless you shuffle it once and split it into chunks or something.
gollark: Maybe they fixed the routers in *one* place.
gollark: Not for me.
gollark: By the way, I totally didn't engineer this conversation to obtain everyone's PINs.
gollark: Mine is very advanced and has 16.
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.