1974 United States Senate election in Ohio

1974 United States Senate election in Ohio
	County results; Glenn: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%
U.S. senator before election; Howard Metzenbaum; Democratic	Elected U.S. Senator ; John Glenn; Democratic

The 1974 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1974. It was concurrent with elections to the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Democratic U.S Senator Howard Metzenbaum was running for election his first full term after he was appointed in 1974 by Ohio governor John J. Gilligan to fill out the Senate term of William B. Saxbe, who had resigned to become United States Attorney General. Metzenbaum lost the primary election to John Glenn, who went on to win the general election and win every county in the state. Metzenbaum would later be elected in the other U.S. Senate seat in 1976 and worked with Glenn until he retired from the post in 1994.

Democratic primary

Candidates

John Glenn, retired astronaut, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and 1970.
Howard Metzenbaum, incumbent U.S. Senator and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970.

The Democratic Primary that year was seen as competitive between John Glenn, a former Astronaut, and Howard Metzenbaum, the incumbent senator, a rematch in the 1970 senate race primary in Ohio.

Democratic primary results^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	John Glenn	571,871	54.36%
Democratic	Howard Metzenbaum (incumbent)	480,123	45.64%
Democratic	Write-ins	33	0.00%

Results

1974 United States Senate election in Ohio^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	John Glenn	1,930,670	64.62%	16.15
	Republican	Ralph Perk	918,133	30.73%	20.80
	Independent	Kathleen G. Harroff	76,882	2.57%	N/A
	Independent	Richard B. Kay	61,921	2.07%	N/A
	Independent	John O'Neill (write-in)	257	0.01%	N/A
	Independent	Ronald E. Girkins (write-in)	88	0.00%	N/A
Total votes			2,987,951	100.00%

References

^ "Our Campaigns - OH US Senate- D Primary Race - May 07, 1974".
^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1974 (sic)" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
^ "Our Campaigns - OH US Senate Race (1974)".

[1] "Our Campaigns - OH US Senate- D Primary Race - May 07, 1974".

[results-2] "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1974 (sic)" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved December 31, 2020.

[3] "Our Campaigns - OH US Senate Race (1974)".

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Candidates

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See also

References