Election Name: | 1930 United States Senate election in Nebraska |
Country: | Nebraska |
Flag Year: | 1925 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1924 United States Senate election in Nebraska |
Previous Year: | 1924 |
Next Election: | 1936 United States Senate election in Nebraska |
Next Year: | 1936 |
Election Date: | November 4, 1930 |
Image1: | GeorgeWNorris.jpg |
Nominee1: | George W. Norris |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 247,118 |
Percentage1: | 56.84% |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 172,795 |
Percentage2: | 39.74% |
Map Size: | 300px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Party: | Republican Party (US) |
After Party: | Republican Party (US) |
The 1930 United States Senate election in Nebraska took place on November 4, 1930. The incumbent Republican, George W. Norris, was re-elected to a fourth term. He defeated Gilbert Hitchcock, the former Senator for the Class 1 seat. The anti-Norris Republican Beatrice Fenton Craig ran by petition.
Beatrice Fenton Craig had filed as a candidate for the Republican primary, however she stood aside in the hope that W. H. Stebbins would defeat Norris. When this failed, Craig accepted a petition by her friends to appear on the ballot.[2] Craig did not see Norris as a true Republican, claiming he used the label "only when seeking his own election, or when it contributes to his own personal or fractional political power."[3]