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Elections in Maine |
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The 1960 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 8, 1960. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was re-elected to a third term over Democratic State Senator Lucia Cormier.
This was the first election in U.S. Senate history in which all candidates or all major-party candidates were women. [1] This was the first U.S. Senate election in Maine that was held in November, rather than in September.
Senator Smith was unopposed for renomination
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Margaret Chase Smith (inc.) | 67,765 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 67,765 | 100.00% |
Representative Cormier was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Lucia Cormier | 27,789 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 27,789 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Margaret Chase Smith (incumbent) | 256,890 | 61.65% | 3.04 | |
Democratic | Lucia Cormier | 159,809 | 38.35% | 3.04 | |
Total votes | 416,699 | 100.00% |