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1970 Senatorial General Election Results - California
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Data for this Contest was Contributed by on 2008-02-12
Senatorial
Candidate
Political
Party
Popular Vote
John V. Tunney
Democratic
3,496,558
53.86%
George Murphy
Republican
2,877,617
44.32%
Robert Scheer
Peace and Freedom
117,982
1.82%
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Election Notes:
The Peace and Freedom and American Independent votes are combined for "others" since I do not have data for each party.
Demographic Data
1970 Population:
19,971,069
Enum.
1970 Population Density:
49.4
persons/km
2
1960 Population:
15,717,204
Enum.
1960 Population Density:
38.9
persons/km
2
Land Area (2000):
403,933
km
2
Annual Pop Growth Rate:
2.4
%
Election Data and Statistics:
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Data Sources:
Source for Popular Vote data: CQ Press, "CALIFORNIA SENATOR 1970,"
America Votes 9: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics
(Washington, D. C.: CQ Press, 1970)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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