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1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

← 1958 November 6, 1962 1964 →
 
Nominee Ted Kennedy George C. Lodge
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,162,611 877,668
Percentage 55.44% 41.85%

County results
Kennedy:      50–60%      60–70%
Lodge:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

U.S. senator before election

Benjamin A. Smith II
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Ted Kennedy
Democratic

The 1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts was held on November 6, 1962. The election was won by Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother of then-President John F. Kennedy, who would remain Senator until his death in 2009.

As of 2024, Kennedy and Lodge's combined age of 65 remains the youngest for two major candidates in a United States Senate election. With professor H. Stuart Hughes, the grandson of Charles Evans Hughes, running a serious independent campaign, this election also featured three of America's most prominent political families.