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1956 West Virginia U.S. Senate Special
West Virginia · 2 candidates
Revercomb +7.3 pts · won by 59,072 votes
Chapman RevercombRepublicanWINNER53.67%
432,123 votes
William C. MarlandDemocratic46.33%
373,051 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).