Electoral history of Wayne Morse

Electoral history of Wayne Morse, United States Senator from Oregon, candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination and Oregon favorite-son candidate in the 1952 Republican presidential primaries.

Originally a Republican, Morse became an independent in 1952 and a Democrat in 1955.

1952
Oregon Republican presidential primary, 1952:
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower - 172,486 (64.55%)
 * Earl Warren - 44,034 (16.48%)
 * Douglas MacArthur - 18,603 (6.96%)
 * Robert A. Taft (write-in) - 18,009 (6.74%)
 * Wayne Morse - 7,105 (2.66%)
 * Harold Stassen - 6,610 (2.47%)
 * William R. Schneider - 350 (0.13%)

1952 Republican presidential primaries:
 * Robert A. Taft - 2,794,736 (35.84%)
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower - 2,050,708 (26.30%)
 * Earl Warren - 1,349,036 (17.30%)
 * Harold Stassen - 881,702 (11.31%)
 * Thomas H. Werdel - 521,110 (6.68%)
 * George T. Mickelson - 63,879 (0.82%)
 * Douglas MacArthur - 44,209 (0.57%)
 * Grant A. Ritter - 26,208 (0.34%)
 * Edward C. Slettedahl - 22,712 (0.29%)
 * Riley A. Bender - 22,321 (0.29%)
 * Mary E. Kenny - 10,411 (0.13%)
 * Wayne Morse - 7,105 (0.09%)
 * Perry J. Stearns - 2,925 (0.04%)
 * William R. Schneider - 580 (0.01%)

1960
District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary, 1960:
 * Hubert Humphrey - 8,239 (57.35%)
 * Wayne Morse - 6,127 (42.65%)

Maryland Democratic presidential primary, 1960:
 * John F. Kennedy - 201,769 (70.31%)
 * Wayne Morse - 49,420 (17.22%)
 * Unpledged - 24,350 (8.49%)
 * Lar Daly - 7,536 (2.63%)
 * Andrew J. Easter - 3,881 (1.35%)

Oregon Democratic presidential primary, 1960:
 * John F. Kennedy - 146,332 (50.97%)
 * Wayne Morse - 91,715 (31.95%)
 * Hubert Humphrey - 16,319 (5.68%)
 * Stuart Symington - 12,496 (4.35%)
 * Lyndon B. Johnson - 11,101 (3.87%)
 * Adlai Stevenson (write-in) - 7,924 (2.76%)
 * Others - 1,210 (0.42%)

1960 Democratic presidential primaries:
 * John F. Kennedy - 1,847,259 (31.43%)
 * Pat Brown - 1,354,031 (23.04%)
 * George H. McLain - 646,387 (11.00%)
 * Hubert Humphrey - 590,410 (10.05%)
 * George Smathers - 322,235 (5.48%)
 * Michael DiSalle - 315,312 (5.37%)
 * Unpledged - 241,958 (4.12%)
 * Albert S. Porter - 208,057 (3.54%)
 * Wayne Morse - 147,262 (2.51%)
 * Adlai Stevenson - 51,833 (0.88%)
 * Lar Daly - 48,389 (0.82%)
 * John H. Latham - 42,084 (0.72%)
 * Stuart Symington - 29,740 (0.51%)
 * Richard Nixon - 16,899 (0.29%)
 * Lyndon B. Johnson - 15,691 (0.27%)

Primary election
[[File:Oregon 1968 Democratic primary US Senator.svg|thumb|right|
 * {{legend|orange|Robert B. Duncan}}
 * {{legend|lightblue|Wayne Morse}}]]

1972
Democratic nomination for the Vice President of the United States, 1972:

Vote to replace original candidate Thomas Eagleton, nominated at the 1972 Democratic National Convention and then removed from the ticket


 * Sargent Shriver - 2,936 (97.44%)
 * Thomas Eagleton - 73 (2.42%)
 * Wayne Morse - 4 (0.13%)



1974
Note: Morse died before the general election and was replaced on the ballot by Betty Roberts.