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1914 United States Senate election in Indiana

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Nominee	Benjamin F. Shively	Hugh Thomas Miller	Albert J. Beveridge
Party	Democratic	Republican	Progressive
Popular vote	272,249	226,766	108,581
Percentage	42.14%	35.10%	16.81%

County results
Shively:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Miller:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%
Beveridge:      30-40%

U.S. senator before election

Benjamin F. Shively
Democratic

Elected U.S. senator

Benjamin F. Shively
Democratic

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The 1914 United States Senate special election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1914. Incumbent Senator Benjamin F. Shively was re-elected to a second term in office over Hugh Thomas Miller and Albert J. Beveridge. This was the first popular election for United States Senator held in Indiana, as required by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

General election[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Albert J. Beveridge, former Republican U.S. Senator (Progressive)
Sumner W. Haynes (Prohibition)
James Matthews (Socialist Labor)
Hugh Thomas Miller, director of the Union Trust Company and former Lieutenant Governor (Republican)
Stephen N. Reynolds (Socialist)
Benjamin F. Shively, incumbent Senator since 1909 (Democratic)

Results[edit]

1914 U.S. Senate special election in Indiana^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Benjamin F. Shively (incumbent)	272,249	42.14%
	Republican	Hugh Thomas Miller	226,766	35.10%
	Progressive	Albert Beveridge	108,581	16.81%
	Socialist	Stephen N. Reynolds	21,719	3.36%
	Prohibition	Sumner W. Haynes	13,860	2.15%
	Socialist Labor	James Matthews	2,884	0.45%
Total votes			703,289	100.00%
	Democratic hold

References[edit]

^ Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1915). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1914" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 16.

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