1956 Kentucky U.S. Senate Special
Who won the 1956 Kentucky U.S. Senate Special?
John Sherman Cooper won the 1956 Kentucky U.S. Senate Special. John Sherman Cooper received 538,505 popular votes (53.23%). The main challenger was Lawrence Wetherby (46.77%).
See the full head-to-head between Cooper and Wetherby
Cooper +6.5 pts · won by 65,365 votes
538,505 votes
473,140 votes
A special election fills a Senate seat that came open mid-term. Popular-vote totals for this U.S. Senate election come from the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) and the official public record.