Electoral History
See also: United States Senate elections in Indiana| Year | Democrat | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Birch Bayh | 905,491 | 51.7% | Homer E. Capehart | 894,548 | 49.7% | ||
| 1968 | Birch Bayh | 1,060,456 | 51.7% | William D. Ruckelshaus | 988,571 | 48.2% | ||
| 1974 | Birch Bayh | 889,269 | 50.7% | Richard G. Lugar | 814,114 | 46.4% | ||
| 1980 | Birch Bayh | 1,015,922 | 46.2% | Dan Quayle | 1,182,414 | 53.8% |
Read more about this topic: Birch Bayh
Famous quotes containing the words electoral and/or history:
“Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”
—Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971)