United States Senate election in Montana, 1946

November 5, 1946



Nominee	Zales Ecton	Leif Erickson
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	101,901	86,476
Percentage	53.47%	45.38%

U.S. Senator before election

Burton K. Wheeler
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Zales Ecton
Republican

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The 1946 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 5, 1946. Incumbent United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who was first elected to the Senate in 1922, and was re-elected in 1928, 1934, and 1940, ran for re-election. He was challenged in the Democratic primary by Leif Erickson, the Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, and, following a close election, was narrowly defeated by Erickson. In the general election, Erickson faced State Senator Zales Ecton, the Republican nominee. Ultimately, Ecton defeated Erickson by a fairly wide margin, and won his first and only term in the Senate.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Democratic Party primary results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Leif Erickson	49,419	52.61
	Democratic	Burton K. Wheeler (inc.)	44,513	47.39
Total votes			93,932	100.00

Republican primary

Candidates

Zales Ecton, State Senator, former State Representative
R. E. Skeen

Results

Republican Primary results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Zales Ecton	22,731	66.94
	Republican	R. E. Skeen	11,226	33.06
Total votes			33,957	100.00

General election

Results

United States Senate election in Montana, 1946^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Republican	Zales Ecton	101,901	53.47%	+26.91%
	Democratic	Leif Erickson	86,476	45.38%	-28.06%
	Socialist	Floyd P. Jones	2,189	1.15%
Majority			15,425	8.09%	-38.78%
Turnout			190,566
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing

References

1 2 "Report of the Official Canvass of the Vote Cast at the Primary Election Held in the State of Montana, July 16, 1946" (PDF). Montana Secretary of State. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
↑ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1946" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. Retrieved July 4, 2014.

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