Election Name: | 1960 United States Senate election in Maine |
Country: | Maine |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1954 United States Senate election in Maine |
Previous Year: | 1954 |
Next Election: | 1966 United States Senate election in Maine |
Next Year: | 1966 |
Election Date: | November 8, 1960 |
Nominee1: | Margaret Chase Smith |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 256,890 |
Percentage1: | 61.65% |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 159,809 |
Percentage2: | 38.35% |
Map Size: | 250px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Party: | Republican Party (US) |
After Party: | Republican Party (US) |
The 1960 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 8, 1960. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was re-elected to a third term over Democratic State Senator Lucia Cormier.
This was the first election in U.S. Senate history in which all candidates or all major-party candidates were women.[1] This was the first U.S. Senate election in Maine that was held in November, rather than in September.
Senator Smith was unopposed for renomination
Representative Cormier was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.