1968 United States Senate election in Alaska information
1968 United States Senate election in Alaska
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November 5, 1968
1974 →
Nominee
Mike Gravel
Elmer Rasmuson
Ernest Gruening (write-in)
Party
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Democratic
Popular vote
36,527
30,286
14,118
Percentage
45.13%
37.42%
17.44%
Results by state house district Gravel: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Gruening: 30–40%
U.S. senator before election
Ernest Gruening
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Elected U.S. Senator
Mike Gravel
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The 1968 United States Senate election in Alaska took place on November 5, 1968. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening ran for a second full term in office but finished behind Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives Mike Gravel in the Democratic primary. Gruening launched a write-in bid for the seat in the general election, but finished third to Gravel and Republican former Anchorage mayor Elmer Rasmuson.
Gravel would later lose the primary in 1980 to Gruening's grandson Clark.
This would be the first of 3 times where the incumbent holder of Alaska's Class 3 U.S. Senate seat was defeated in the primary while running for re-election.
Future Senator Ted Stevens also ran in the Republican primary, but lost to Rasmuson by around 1,000 votes. When incumbent Democratic Class 2 Senator Bob Bartlett died that December, Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the vacant seat, giving Stevens a seniority advantage of 10 days over the incoming Gravel.
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