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2 General election  



2.1  Candidates  





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1952 United States Senate special election in Connecticut

← 1950 November 4, 1952 1956 →
 
Nominee Prescott Bush Abraham Ribicoff
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 559,465 530,505
Percentage 51.17% 48.52%

County results
Ribicoff:      50–60%
Bush:      50-60%      60-70%


U.S. senator before election

William A. Purtell
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Prescott Bush
Republican

The 1952 United States Senate special election in Connecticut was held on November 4, 1952, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Brien McMahon.

Incumbent Senator Prescott Bush, who won the special election, was later re-elected in 1956 to a full term in office over Democratic U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd.

Background[edit]

Senator Brien McMahon, whose term in office was scheduled to expire in 1957, died on July 28, 1952. William A. Purtell, who was already the Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat in a regularly scheduled election for the term expiring in 1959, was appointed to fill the seat until a successor could be duly elected. Purtell continued to stand in the regular election rather than run for the remainder of McMahon's term.

General election[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Results[edit]

1952 U.S. Senate special election in Connecticut[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Prescott Bush 559,465 51.17%
Democratic Abraham A. Ribicoff 530,505 48.52%
Socialist William J. Taft 3,298 0.30%
Total votes 1,093,268 100.0%
Republican hold Swing

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1952" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • ^ "1952 Senatorial Special Election Results - Connecticut". US Election Atlas. David Leip's Election Atlas. Retrieved April 19, 2022.

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