1968 United States Senate election in Kansas

The 1968 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 5, 1968, concurrently with the U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Primary elections were held on August 6, 1968.^[1]

Irene Corn
James Kenneth Logan, dean of the University of Kansas School of Law^[2]
George A. Lopez, employee of a meat packing plant^[2]
William I. Robinson, attorney,^[2] Democratic nominee for Kansas's 4th congressional districtin1960
K. L. "Ken" Smith, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senatein1962

Democratic primary results^[3]^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	William I. Robinson	56,242	40.90
	Democratic	James Kenneth Logan	50,709	36.88
	Democratic	K. L. "Ken" Smith	13,698	9.96
	Democratic	George A. Lopez	9,386	6.83
	Democratic	Irene Corn	7,474	5.44
Total votes			137,509	100.00%

Republican primary results^[3]^[4]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bob Dole	190,782	68.48
	Republican	William H. Avery	87,801	31.52
Total votes			278,583	100.00

1968 United States Senate election in Kansas^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bob Dole	490,911	60.08
	Democratic	William I. Robinson	315,911	38.66
	Prohibition	Joseph Fred Hyskell	10,262	1.26
	None	Scattering	12	0.00
Majority			175,000	21.42
Turnout			817,096
	Republican hold

^ Compiled by the Senate Library under the direction of Francis R. Valeo, Secretary of the Senate, and Richard D. Hupman, Librarian (1968). "State Primary Elections, 1968, by states". Factual Campaign Information. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. p. 3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

^ ^a ^b ^c "Thumbnail Sketches of State and District Primary Candidates". The Fort Scott Tribune. Fort Scott, Kansas. August 5, 1968. p. 5. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

^ ^a ^b America Votes 8, p. 137.

^ "KS US Senate, 1968 - D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

^ "KS US Senate, 1968 - R Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

^ "KS US Senate, 1968". Our Campaigns. Retrieved October 4, 2021.

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Scammon, Richard M., ed. (1970). America Votes 8: a handbook of contemporary American election statistics, 1968. Washington, D.C.: Governmental Affairs Institute.

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