How America Votes
1976 U.S. Senate election results by state. About a third of the Senate is up in each cycle; states without a race that year are uncolored. Certified returns, presented as numbers only.
Democratic wins
21
Republican wins
11
Other / independent
1
33 races decided in 1976
Republican wonDemocratic wonIndependent / other
Which party received the most votes, as a solid color.Winning margin as a share of all votes cast.Total votes cast, all candidates.
Hover a state for its Senate result; click to open that state's page. Uncolored states had no Senate race in 1976. Where a state also held a special election, the map shows the regularly scheduled race and the table below lists both.
Races
| State | Winner | Democratic | Republican | Other | Margin | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Dennis Deconcini | 400,334 | 321,236 | 19,640 | D +10.7 | 741,210 |
| California | S. I. (sam) Hayakawa | 3,502,862 | 3,748,973 | 218,751 | R +3.3 | 7,470,586 |
| Connecticut | Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | 561,018 | 785,683 | 14,965 | R +16.5 | 1,361,666 |
| Delaware | William V. Roth, Jr. | 98,042 | 125,454 | 1,299 | R +12.2 | 224,795 |
| Florida | Lawton Chiles | 1,799,518 | 1,057,886 | 130 | D +26.0 | 2,857,534 |
| Hawaii | Spark M. Matsunaga | 162,305 | 122,724 | 17,063 | D +13.1 | 302,092 |
| Indiana | Richard G. Lugar | 868,522 | 1,275,833 | 16,832 | R +18.8 | 2,161,187 |
| Maine | Edmund S. Muskie | 292,704 | 193,489 | 0 | D +20.4 | 486,193 |
| Maryland | Paul S. Sarbanes | 772,101 | 530,439 | 62,750 | D +17.7 | 1,365,290 |
| Massachusetts | Edward M. Kennedy | 1,726,657 | 722,641 | 41,957 | D +40.3 | 2,491,255 |
| Michigan | Donald W. Riegle, Jr. | 1,831,031 | 1,635,087 | 24,294 | D +5.6 | 3,490,412 |
| Minnesota | Hubert H. Humphrey | 1,290,736 | 478,602 | 142,682 | D +42.5 | 1,912,020 |
| Mississippi | John C. Stennis | 554,433 | 0 | 0 | — | 554,433 |
| Missouri | John C. Danforth | 813,571 | 1,090,067 | 10,822 | R +14.4 | 1,914,460 |
| Montana | John Melcher | 206,232 | 115,213 | 0 | D +28.3 | 321,445 |
| Nebraska | Edward Zorinsky | 313,805 | 279,284 | 163 | D +5.8 | 593,310 |
| Nevada | Howard W. Cannon | 127,214 | 63,471 | 11,214 | D +31.6 | 201,899 |
| New Jersey | Harrison A. Williams, Jr. | 1,681,140 | 1,054,508 | 35,742 | D +22.6 | 2,771,390 |
| New Mexico | Harrison "jack" Schmitt | 176,382 | 234,681 | 1,993 | R +14.1 | 413,056 |
| New York | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 3,422,594 | 2,836,633 | 407,648 | D +8.8 | 6,666,875 |
| North Dakota | Quentin N. Burdick | 175,772 | 103,466 | 3,824 | D +25.5 | 283,062 |
| Ohio | Howard M. Metzenbaum | 1,941,113 | 1,823,774 | 155,726 | D +3.0 | 3,920,613 |
| Pennsylvania | H. John Heinz Iii | 2,126,977 | 2,381,891 | 37,485 | R +5.6 | 4,546,353 |
| Rhode Island | John H. Chafee | 167,665 | 230,329 | 912 | R +15.7 | 398,906 |
| Tennessee | James R. Sasser | 751,180 | 673,231 | 7,604 | D +5.4 | 1,432,046 |
| Texas | Lloyd Bentsen | 2,199,956 | 1,636,370 | 37,904 | D +14.5 | 3,874,230 |
| Utah | Orrin G. Hatch | 223,948 | 290,221 | 7,939 | R +12.7 | 522,108 |
| Vermont | Robert T. Stafford | 85,682 | 94,481 | 8,897 | R +4.7 | 189,060 |
| Virginia | Harry F. Byrd, Jr. | 596,009 | 0 | 961,337 | — | 1,557,500 |
| Washington | Henry M. Jackson | 1,071,219 | 361,546 | 58,346 | D +47.6 | 1,491,111 |
| West Virginia | Robert C. Byrd | 566,359 | 0 | 0 | — | 566,359 |
| Wisconsin | William Proxmire | 1,396,970 | 521,902 | 16,311 | D +45.2 | 1,935,183 |
| Wyoming | Malcolm Wallop | 70,558 | 84,810 | 0 | R +9.2 | 155,368 |
Races that went to a runoff show the runoff result. Margins are the popular-vote gap as a share of all votes cast in the race.