1957 United States Senate elections

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1957 United States Senate special election in Texas

| country = Texas

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1952 United States Senate election in Texas

| previous_year = 1952

| next_election = 1958 United States Senate election in Texas

| next_year = 1958

| election_date = April 2, 1957

| image1 = File:RalphYarborough.jpg

| image_size = 150x150px

| nominee1 = Ralph Yarborough

| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)

| popular_vote1 = 364,605

| percentage1 = 38.09%

| image2 = File:Martin-Dies-Jr.jpg|x150px]]

| nominee2 = Martin Dies Jr.

| party2 = Democratic Party (United States)

| popular_vote2 = 290,803

| percentage2 = 30.38%

| image3 = File:3x4.svg

| nominee3 = Thad Hutcheson

| party3 = Republican Party (United States)

| popular_vote3 = 219,591

| percentage3 = 22.94%

| title = U.S. Senator

| before_election = William Blakley

| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)

| after_election = Ralph Yarborough

| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)

| map_caption = County Results
Yarborough: {{legend0|#bdd3ff|30–40%}} {{legend0|#a5b0ff|40–50%}} {{legend0|#7996e2|50–60%}} {{legend0|#6674de|60–70%}} {{legend0|#584cde|70–80%}} {{legend0|#3933e5|80–90%}}

Dies: {{legend0|#c0f0c0|20–30%}} {{legend0|#aae5aaff|30–40%}} {{legend0|#87de87ff|40–50%}} {{legend0|#5bc75bff|50–60%}} {{legend0|#41b742ff|60–70%}} {{legend0|#309a30ff|70–80%}}

Hutcheson: {{legend0|#ffccd0|30–40%}} {{legend0|#f2b3be|40–50%}} {{legend0|#cc2f4a|60–70%}}

Tie: {{legend0|#b4dcd5|30–40%}}

| map_image = 1957 United States Senate special election in Texas results map by county.svg

}}

{{Main|1957 United States Senate special election in Texas}}

{{See also|List of United States senators from Texas}}

One-term Democrat Price Daniel resigned January 14, 1957 to become Governor of Texas. Daniel appointed Democrat William A. Blakley January 15, 1957.

In 1956, Allan Shivers opted not to run for a fourth term as Governor of Texas; Senator Price Daniel, as a sitting U.S. Senator was elected Governor of Texas.

Like his gubernatorial predecessor Allan Shivers and Daniel, Blakley was an "Eisenhower Democrat" who had supported Dwight Eisenhower over the national Democratic Party candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956.

Blakley, who had gained prominence in Texas politics for his business successes was, at the time, building a $125 million shopping center and a 1,000-room hotel in Dallas. Governor Shivers, who had been considering appointing a Republican candidate to the Senate seat, instead named Blakley to the United States Senate pending a special election for the seat.

Pressured by the Democratic Party in the interests of cooling tensions from the gubernatorial election, Blakley did not seek the remaining term as senator. He hence served for fewer than four months from January 15 to April 28. Ralph Yarborough succeeded him in the special election, winning with a plurality of the vote when the conservatives divided three ways.

Thereafter, Texas law was changed to require a runoff between the two leading candidates in a special election if no one had a majority in the first round). Blakley left the Senate saying "I shall go back to my boots and saddle and ride toward the Western sunset."[https://web.archive.org/web/20050213155427/http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,913915,00.html Time (magazine)]

Yarborough would be re-elected in 1958 and again in 1964.

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| title= Texas special election{{Cite web |last=Texas State Historical Association|publisher=The Dallas Morning News|date=1957 |title=Texas Almanac, 1958-1959 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117139/m1/459/ |access-date=2022-06-26 |website=The Portal to Texas History |pages=457–458 |language=English}}Register of Elected and Appointed State and County Officials 1956–1959. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. pp. 443–448, 461–466, 491–498

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Ralph W. Yarborough

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 364,605

| percentage = 38.09%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Martin Dies Jr.

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 290,803

| percentage = 30.38%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Thad Hutcheson

| party = Republican Party (US)

| votes = 219,591

| percentage = 22.94%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Searcy Bracewell

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 33,384

| percentage = 3.49%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = James P. Hart

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 19,739

| percentage = 2.06%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = John C. White

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 11,876

| percentage = 1.24%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Ralph W. Hammonds

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 2,372

| percentage = 0.25%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Elmer Adams

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 2,228

| percentage = 0.23%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = M. T. Banks

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 2,153

| percentage = 0.23%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Frank G. Cortez

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 1,350

| percentage = 0.14%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Charles W. Hill

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 1,025

| percentage = 0.11%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Jacob Bergolofsky

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 890

| percentage = 0.09%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = J. Cal Courtney

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 879

| percentage = 0.09%

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Hugh Wilson

| party = Democratic Party (US)

| votes = 851

| percentage = 0.09%

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{{Election box majority no change

| votes = 73,802

| percentage = 7.71%

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{{Election box turnout no change

| votes =

| percentage = 12.41% (total pop)

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{{Election box hold with party link no swing

| winner = Democratic Party (US)

| loser = Republican Party (US)

| swing =

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{{Main|1957 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin}}

{{See also|List of United States senators from Wisconsin}}

Two-term Republican Joseph McCarthy died May 2, 1957. In the summer of 1957, a special election was held to fill McCarthy's seat. In the primaries, voters in both parties turned away from McCarthy's legacy. The Republican primary was won by Walter J. Kohler Jr., who called for a clean break from McCarthy's approach; he defeated former Congressman Glenn Robert Davis, who charged that Eisenhower was soft on Communism.{{Cite web |title=Our Campaigns - WI US Senate - Special R Primary Race - Jul 30, 1957 |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=382776 |access-date=July 1, 2020 |website=www.ourcampaigns.com}} The Democratic candidate, William Proxmire,{{Cite web |title=Our Campaigns - WI US Senate - Special D Primary Race - Jul 30, 1957 |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=382774 |access-date=July 1, 2020 |website=www.ourcampaigns.com}} called the late McCarthy "a disgrace to Wisconsin, to the Senate, and to America". On August 27, Proxmire won the election, serving in the seat for 32 years.{{Cite web |title=Our Campaigns - WI US Senate Race - Aug 28, 1957 |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46910 |access-date=July 1, 2020 |website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}{{Cite web |last=Nichols |first=John |date=July 31, 2007 |title=In 1957, a McCarthy-free morning in America |url=http://www.madison.com/tct/archives/index.php?archAction=arch_read&a_from=search&a_file=%2Ftct%2F2007%2F07%2F31%2F0707310204.php&var_search=Search&keyword_field=In%201957,%20a%20McCarthy-free%20morning%20in%20&pub_code_field=tct&from_date_field=&to_date_field=&var_start_pos=0&var_articles_per_page=10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405143136/http://www.madison.com/tct/archives/index.php?archAction=arch_read&a_from=search&a_file=%2Ftct%2F2007%2F07%2F31%2F0707310204.php&var_search=Search&keyword_field=In%201957,%20a%20McCarthy-free%20morning%20in%20&pub_code_field=tct&from_date_field=&to_date_field=&var_start_pos=0&var_articles_per_page=10 |archive-date=April 5, 2009 |website=The Capital Times}}

Proxmire would be re-elected five more times, serving until his retirement in 1989.

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1957 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin

| country = Wisconsin

| flag_year = 1913

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1952 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

| previous_year = 1952

| next_election = 1958 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

| next_year = 1958

| election_date = August 27, 1957

| image1 = File:William Proxmire.jpg

| image_size = 150x150px

| nominee1 = William Proxmire

| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)

| popular_vote1 = 435,985

| percentage1 = 56.44%

| image2 = File:Walter J. Kohler Jr. Crop.png

| nominee2 = Walter Kohler

| party2 = Republican Party (United States)

| popular_vote2 = 312,931

| percentage2 = 40.51%

| title = U.S. Senator

| before_election = Joseph McCarthy

| before_party = Republican Party (United States)

| after_election = William Proxmire

| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)

| map_caption = County results

Proxmire: {{legend0|#a5b0ff|40–50%}} {{legend0|#7996e2|50–60%}} {{legend0|#6674de|60–70%}} {{legend0|#584cde|70–80%}}

Kohler: {{legend0|#f2b3be|40–50%}} {{legend0|#E27F7F|50–60%}}

| map_image = 1957 United States Senate special election in Wisconsin results map by county.svg

| map_size = 250px

}}

{{Election box begin | title=Wisconsin Special U.S. Senate Election, 1957{{cite web | first=Ruth | last=Johnson | title=Election Results: GENERAL ELECTION - November 05, 2002 (United States Senator 6 Year Term (1) Position) | date=December 17, 2002 | publisher=Michigan Department of State | url=http://miboecfr.nicusa.com/election/results/02GEN/05000000.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318032917/http://miboecfr.nicusa.com/election/results/02GEN/05000000.html | archive-date=March 18, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = William Proxmire

|votes = 435,985

|percentage = 56.44%

|change = +15.22%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Republican Party (United States)|candidate=Walter Kohler|votes=312,931|percentage=40.51%|change=-18.08%}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Constitution Party (United States, 1952)|candidate=Howard Boyle|votes=20,581|percentage=2.66%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Independent Party (United States)|candidate=Donald Wheaton|votes=2,288|percentage=0.30%|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link||party=Socialist Labor Party (United States)|candidate=Georgia Cozzini|votes=704|percentage=0.09%|change=}}

{{Election box majority||votes=123,054|percentage=15.93%|change=}}

{{Election box turnout||votes=772,489|percentage=|change=}}

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| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}

| colspan=5 |Democratic gain from Republican

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