1957 Texas U.S. Senate Special
Who won the 1957 Texas U.S. Senate Special?
Ralph W. Yarborough won the 1957 Texas U.S. Senate Special. Ralph W. Yarborough received 364,605 popular votes (38.09%). The main challenger was Martin Dies Jr. (30.38%).
See the full head-to-head between Yarborough and Jr.
Yarborough +7.7 pts · won by 73,802 votes
364,605 votes
290,803 votes
219,591 votes
Other candidates received the remaining 8.6% of the popular vote; only the leading candidates are individually recorded for this election.
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.