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1956 Kentucky U.S. Senate Special
Kentucky · 2 candidates
Cooper +6.5 pts · won by 65,365 votes
John Sherman CooperRepublicanWINNER53.23%
538,505 votes
Lawrence WetherbyDemocratic46.77%
473,140 votes
A special election fills a Senate seat that came open mid-term. Popular-vote totals for U.S. Senate elections come from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (1976–2024).