Electoral history of Bob Dole,

United States Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

from

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...

(1969–1996),

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(1985–1987, 1995–1996),

Senate Minority Leader The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...

(1987–1995), 1976 Republican Party vice presidential nominee and 1996 presidential nominee. He had been involved in many elections on regional, statewide and nationwide stage, from 1950 to 1996. NOTE: Dole was an incumbent in abolished 6th district and Breeding in 1st district, which became merged into one. 1974 US Senate Election in Kansas results

1974 US Senate Election in Kansas results

1976 Republican National Convention The 1976 Republican National Convention was a United States political convention of the Republican Party that met from August 16 to August 19, 1976, to select the party's nominee for President. Held in Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, the ...

(Vice Presidential tally): * Bob Dole - 1,921 (85.04%) * Abstaining - 103 (4.56%) * Jesse Helms - 103 (4.56%) * Ronald Reagan - 27 (1.20%) *

Phil Crane Philip Miller Crane (November 3, 1930 – November 8, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th District of Illinois in the northwestern s ...

- 23 (1.02%) * John Grady - 19 (0.84%) * Louis Frey - 9 (0.40%) * Anne Armstrong - 6 (0.27%) * Howard Baker - 6 (0.27%) *

William F. Buckley William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator. In 1955, he founded ''National Review'', the magazine that stim ...

- 4 (0.18%) *

John B. Connally John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917June 15, 1993) was an American politician. He served as the 39th governor of Texas and as the 61st United States secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republic ...

- 4 (0.18%) *

David C. Treen David Conner Treen Sr. (July 16, 1928 – October 29, 2009) was an American politician and attorney at law (United States), attorney from Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Treen served as United State ...

- 4 (0.18%) *

Alan Steelman Alan Watson Steelman (born March 15, 1942) is an American businessman from Dallas who served as a Republican congressman from Texas between 1973 and 1977; at the time of his election, he was the youngest sitting member of Congress. He gave up his ...

- 3 (0.13%) * Edmund Bauman - 2 (0.09%) *

Bill Brock William Emerson Brock III (November 23, 1930 – March 25, 2021) was an American Republican politician who served in both chambers of the United States Congress from 1963 to 1977 and later in the United States Cabinet from 1981 to 1987. He was ...

- 2 (0.09%) *

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- 2 (0.09%) *

Elliot Richardson Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and public servant who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergat ...

- 2 (0.09%) *

Richard Schweiker Richard Schultz Schweiker (June 1, 1926 – July 31, 2015) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 14th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Ronald Reagan from 198 ...

- 2 (0.09%) *

William E. Simon William Edward Simon (November 27, 1927 – June 3, 2000) was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He became the Secretary of the Treasury on May 9, 1974, during the Nixon admi ...

- 2 (0.09%) * Jack Wellborn - 2 (0.09%) * James Allen - 1 (0.04%) * Ray Barnhardt - 1 (0.04%) * George H. W. Bush - 1 (0.04%) *

Pete Domenici Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (May 7, 1932 – September 13, 2017) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from New Mexico from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served six terms in the S ...

- 1 (0.04%) * James B. Edwards - 1 (0.04%) * Frank S. Glenn - 1 (0.04%) * David Keane - 1 (0.04%) * James McClure - 1 (0.04%) * Nancy Palm - 1 (0.04%) * Donald Rumsfeld - 1 (0.04%) * John W. Sears - 1 (0.04%) *

Roger Staubach Roger Thomas Staubach (, -; , -; born February 5, 1942), nicknamed "Roger the Dodger", "Captain America", and "Captain Comeback", is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for ...

- 1 (0.04%) *

Steve Symms Steven Douglas Symms (born April 23, 1938) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a four-term congressman (1973–81) and two-term U.S. Senator (1981–93), representing Idaho. He is a partner at Parry, Romani, DeConcini & Symms, a ...

- 1 (0.04%) NOTE: One

Faithless Elector In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote, and instead votes for another person for one or ...

voted for Reagan instead of Ford, but did cast vice-presidential vote for Dole. 1980 Republican presidential primaries: * Ronald Reagan - 7,709,793 (59.79%) * George H. W. Bush - 3,070,033 (23.81%) * John B. Anderson - 1,572,174 (12.19%) * Howard Baker - 181,153 (1.41%) *

- 97,793 (0.76%) *

- 82,625 (0.64%) * Unpledged - 68,155 (0.53%) *

Ben Fernandez Benjamin Fernandez (February 24, 1925 – April 25, 2000) was an American politician, financial consultant and special ambassador. He was a member of the Republican Party. He ran for President of the United States three times, seriously in 1980 a ...

- 68,155 (0.53%) *

Harold Stassen Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 – March 4, 2001) was an American politician who was the 25th Governor of Minnesota. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1948, considered for a ti ...

- 25,425 (0.20%) * Gerald Ford - 10,557 (0.08%) * Bob Dole - 7,204 (0.06%)

, 1984: Final fourth ballot: * Bob Dole - 28 *

Ted Stevens Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009. He was the longest-serving Republican Senator in history at the time he left ...

- 25 Other defeated candidates:

, Dick Lugar, Jim McClure

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to th ...

Republican presidential Straw Poll, 1987: *

Pat Robertson Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, former presidential candidate, and former Southern Baptist minister. Robertson advocates a conservative Christian ...

- 1,293 (33.65%) * Bob Dole - 958 (24.93%) * George H. W. Bush - 864 (22.48%) * Jack Kemp - 520 (13.53%) * Pierre S. du Pont, IV - 160 (4.16%) *

- 23 (0.60%) * Kate Heslop - 13 (0.34%) *

Alexander Haig Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (; December 2, 1924February 20, 2010) was United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to and in between these ...

- 12 (0.31%) 1988 Republican presidential primaries: * George H. W. Bush - 8,258,512 (67.91%) * Bob Dole - 2,333,375 (19.19%) *

- 1,097,446 (9.02%) * Jack Kemp - 331,333 (2.72%) * Unpledged - 56,990 (0.47%) * Pierre S. du Pont, IV - 49,783 (0.41%) *

- 26,619 (0.22%) *

- 2,682 (0.02%) Iowa Republican presidential Straw Poll, 1995: * Bob Dole - 2,582 (24.38%) * Phil Gramm - 2,582 (24.38%) * Pat Buchanan - 1,922 (18.15%) *

Lamar Alexander Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. (born July 3, 1940) is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he also was the 45th governor of Tennessee from ...

- 1,156 (10.91%) *

Alan Keyes Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American politician, political activist, author, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987. A member of the Repub ...

- 804 (7.59%) * Morry Taylor - 803 (7.58%) * Richard Lugar - 466 (4.40%) *

Pete Wilson Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 36th governor of California from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as a United States senator from California betw ...

- 123 (1.16%) *

Bob Dornan Robert Kenneth Dornan (born April 3, 1933) is an American politician and actor from California. A Republican, Dornan served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997. He has become well known for public ...

- 87 (0.82%) *

Arlen Specter Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician who served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican fr ...

- 67 (0.63%) 1996 New Hampshire Republican Vice Presidential primary: All candidates were running as

write-in A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically writing in the person's name on the ballot. Depending on electoral law it may be po ...

* Colin Powell - 6,414 (25.80%) * Alan Keres - 4,200 (16.90%) * Scattering - 2,631 (10.58%) *

- 2,113 (8.50%) * Richard Lugar - 1,881 (7.57%) * Phil Gramm - 1,314 (5.29%) *

Steve Forbes Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (; born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of ''Forbes'', a business magazine. He is the son of longtime ''Forbes'' publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandso ...

- 1,220 (4.91%) * Pat Buchanan - 1,115 (4.49%) * Jack Kemp - 970 (3.90%) * Bob Dole - 930 (3.74%) * Morry Taylor - 710 (2.86%) *

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic no ...

(inc.) - 654 (2.63%) *

- 401 (1.61%) * Ross Perot - 108 (0.43%) *

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

- 70 (0.28%) *

Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. The son of Lebanese immigrants to the U ...

- 69 (0.28%) * Richard P. Bosa - 60 (0.24%)

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

Presidential primary for independent voters, 1996: *

(D) (inc.) - 227,120 (51.08%) * Bob Dole (R) - 125,154 (28.15%) * Pat Buchanan (R) - 44,027 (9.90%) *

(R) - 28,618 (6.44%) *

(R) - 6,631 (1.49%) *

(R) - 5,181 (1.17%) *

Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspira ...

(D) - 3,160 (0.71%) * Richard Lugar (R) - 2,009 (0.45%) * Phil Gramm (R) - 1,665 (0.37%) *

(R) - 1,054 (0.24%) 1996 Republican presidential primaries * Bob Dole - 9,024,742 (58.82%) * Pat Buchanan - 3,184,943 (20.76%) *

- 1,751,187 (11.41%) *

- 495,590 (3.23%) *

- 471,716 (3.08%) * Richard Lugar - 127,111 (0.83%) * Unpledged delegates - 123,278 (0.80%) * Phil Gramm - 71,456 (0.47%) *

- 42,140 (0.28%) * Morry Taylor - 21,180 (0.14%) * Others - 18,261 (0.12%)

1996 Republican National Convention The 1996 Republican National Convention convened at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) in San Diego, California, from August 12 to August 15, 1996. The convention nominated former Senator Bob Dole from Kansas, for president and former Repres ...

( Presidential tally): * Bob Dole - 1,928 (97.62%) * Pat Buchanan - 43 (2.18%) * Phil Gramm - 2 (0.10%) *

Robert Bork Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American jurist who served as the solicitor general of the United States from 1973 to 1977. A professor at Yale Law School by occupation, he later served as a judge on the U.S. Cour ...

- 1 (0.05%) *

- 1 (0.05%)

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