Paul Tsongas - Electoral History

Electoral History

Massachusetts 5th district, 1974

  • Paul Tsongas (D) - 99,518 (60.64%)
  • Paul W. Cronin (R) (inc.) - 64,596 (39.36%)

Massachusetts 5th district, 1976

  • Paul Tsongas (D) (inc.) - 144,217 (67.31%)
  • Roger P. Durkin (D) - 70,036 (32.69%)

Democratic primary for the United States Senate from Massachusetts, 1978

  • Paul Tsongas - 296,915 (35.55%)
  • Paul Guzzi - 258,960 (31.01%)
  • Kathleen Alioto - 161,036 (19.28%)
  • Howard Phillips - 65,397 (7.83%)
  • Elaine Noble - 52,464 (6.28%)
  • Others - 379 (0.05%)

Massachusetts United States Senate election, 1978

  • Paul Tsongas (D) - 1,093,283 (55.06%)
  • Edward Brooke (R) (inc.) - 890,584 (44.85%)
  • Others - 1,833 (0.09%)

United States presidential election, 1992 (Democratic primaries)

  • Bill Clinton - 10,482,411 (52.01%)
  • Jerry Brown - 4,071,232 (20.20%)
  • Paul Tsongas - 3,656,010 (18.14%)
  • Unpledged - 750,873 (3.73%)
  • Bob Kerrey - 318,457 (1.58%)
  • Tom Harkin - 280,304 (1.39%)
  • Lyndon LaRouche - 154,599 (0.77%)
  • Eugene McCarthy - 108,678 (0.54%)
  • Charles Woods - 88,948 (0.44%)
  • Larry Agran - 58,611 (0.29%)
  • Ross Perot (write-in) - 54,755 (0.27%)
  • Ralph Nader (write-in) - 35,935 (0.18%)
  • Louis J. Stokes - 29,983 (0.15%)

Read more about this topic:  Paul Tsongas

Famous quotes containing the words electoral and/or history:

    “Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race.”
    —Eliza Archard Connor, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 9, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)