1958 United States Senate election in Connecticut

1958 United States Senate election in Connecticut
	200px County results; Dodd: 50–60% 60–70%
U.S. senator before election; William A. Purtell; Republican	Elected U.S. Senator; Thomas J. Dodd; Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.

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 protester (Independent)
William A. Purtell, incumbent Senator since 1953 (Republican

Results

United States Senate election in Connecticut, 1958^[1]
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

References

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