United States Senate election in Hawaii, 1976

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United States Senate election in Hawaii, 1976
← 1970 November 2, 1976 1982 →
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Nominee Spark Matsunaga William Quinn
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 162,305 122,724
Percentage 53.7% 40.6%
Hawaii Election Results by County, all Democratic.svg
County results
U.S. senator before election

Hiram Fong
Republican

 Elected U.S. Senator

Spark Matsunaga
Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 1976 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 2, 1976. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Hiram Fong decided to retire instead of seeking re-election to a fourth term. Democrat Spark Matsunaga won the open seat.

Major candidates

Democratic

Republican

Results

General election results[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Spark Matsunaga 162,305 53.7%
Republican William Quinn 122,724 40.6%
People's Anthony Hodges 14,226 4.7%
Nonpartisan James Kimmel 1,433 0.5%
Libertarian Rockne Hart Johnson 1,404 0.5%

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2524

External links


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