1980 United States Senate election in Idaho
The 1980 United States Senate election in Idaho took place on November 4, 1980 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Church ran for re-election to a fifth term, but was narrowly defeated by Republican Steve Symms.
![]() | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
![]() County Results Symms: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Church: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
|
Elections in Idaho | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||||||
|
||||||||
|
||||||||
Major candidates
Democratic
- Frank Church, incumbent U.S. Senator
Republican
- Steve Symms, U.S. Congressman
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Steve Symms | 218,701 | 49.74% | +7.61% | |
Democratic | Frank Church (incumbent) | 214,439 | 48.78% | -7.30% | |
Libertarian | Larry Fullmer | 6,507 | 1.48% | ||
Majority | 4,262 | 0.97% | -12.96% | ||
Turnout | 439,647 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic | Swing | ||||
gollark: But it also is quite inflexible.
gollark: `parallel` is an abstraction layer over `coroutine` to simplify its use for the average multitasking thing.
gollark: Also that.
gollark: It depends.
gollark: I see most OSes as people just trying to make CC more familiar for the average Windows-using type, and then ruining what makes it a useful environment.
See also
- United States Senate elections, 1980
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.