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1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania

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Field	Value
election_name	1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
country	Pennsylvania
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1956 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
previous_year	1956
next_election	1968 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
next_year	1968
election_date	November 6, 1962
image_size	x145px
image1	Joseph S. Clark Jr.jpg
nominee1	Joseph S. Clark Jr.
party1	Democratic Party (US)
popular_vote1	2,238,383
percentage1	51.07%
image2	James E. Van Zandt (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
nominee2	James E. Van Zandt
party2	Republican Party (US)
popular_vote2	2,134,649
percentage2	48.70%
map_image	1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania results map by county.svg
map_size	260px
map_caption	County results
Clark:
Zandt:
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	Joseph S. Clark, Jr.
before_party	Democratic Party (US)
after_election	Joseph S. Clark, Jr.
after_party	Democratic Party (US)

Clark:
Zandt:
The 1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. successfully sought re-election to another term, defeating Republican nominee James E. Van Zandt.

A Democratic U.S. Senator would not be elected in Pennsylvania until 1991, and not again in a regular election until 2006. This was the last time the Democrats won the Class 3 Senate seat from Pennsylvania until John Fetterman's victory in 2022.

General election

Candidates

Arla A. Albaugh (Socialist Labor)
Joseph S. Clark Jr., incumbent U.S. Senator since 1957 (Democratic)
James E. Van Zandt, U.S. Representative from Altoona (Republican)

Campaign

The 1962 Senate race took place alongside a gubernatorial race that garnered most of the media's attention. Van Zandt criticized Clark for being an idealistic liberal and stressed an anti-communist platform. He also attacked Clark for Clark's support of the Kennedy administration's foreign policy towards both China and Cuba. In return, Clark portrayed Van Zandt as a proponent of McCarthyism who would be "trigger happy" as a Senator.

In the end, Clark was re-elected to the United States Senate, winning his second term. He beat Van Zandt in the nine-county area of Southwestern Pennsylvania surrounding Pittsburgh by nearly 200,000 votes, but lost Central Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia suburbs to Van Zandt. Clark increased his margin of victory in the Southwest from 1956, and his 108,000 vote margin in Allegheny County was an important factor in his victory.

Results

Notes

References

(2014). "Pennsylvania Elections". University Press of America.
"Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962". Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House.

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