• Source: 1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi

      • The 1978 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James Eastland decided to retire.
      Republican Thad Cochran won the open seat, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate election in Mississippi since the end of Reconstruction in 1881. It was also the first time since 1877 that a Republican won this Senate seat.


      Democratic primary




      = Candidates

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      Maurice Dantin, former District Attorney
      Cliff Finch, Governor of Mississippi
      Robert L. Robinson
      Charles L. Sullivan, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
      Richard C. Tedford
      Bill Waller, former Governor of Mississippi
      Helen M. Williams


      = Results

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      Runoff results




      Republican primary




      = Candidates

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      Thad Cochran, U.S. Representative from Jackson
      Charles W. Pickering, Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party


      = Results

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      General election




      = Candidates

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      Thad Cochran, U.S. Representative from Jackson (Republican)
      Maurice Dantin, former District Attorney (Democratic)
      Charles Evers, Mayor of Fayette (independent)
      Henry Jay Kirksey, civil rights activist and candidate for governor in 1975 (independent)


      = Campaign

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      Evers was the first African American elected since the Reconstruction era to be mayor in any Mississippi city, in 1969. He ran as an independent, and as a result his campaign divided the Democrats and allowed Cochran to win the Senate seat with a 45 percent plurality. This made Cochran the first Republican in a century to win a statewide election (other than a presidential election) in Mississippi. Eastland resigned on December 27, 1978 to give Cochran a seniority advantage over new incoming senators.


      = Results

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      See also


      1978 United States Senate elections


      References




      Works cited


      Moreland, Laurence; Steed, Robert; Baker, Tod, eds. (1991). The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0275931455.

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