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Show iVtoss, Lloyd, WkKay woim 0 n o pomme legiisusiiiwe serifs '" Si ' ?v . . p " J, I .-sV- . ( . - . l "'" ' Vs f .1 ""'I'r ' ' ' if i I t j i V ' : r f : i ' Sen. Frank E. Moss was re-elected to his third term Rq). Sherman Lloyd returns to Washington as in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. Utah's voice for the first congressional district. Democrat Frank E. Moss Tuesday night swept to his third term in the U.S. Senate successfully turning turn-ing back Republican challenger Laurence J. Burton. Other winners win-ners for the Utah team were Republican Re-publican Sherman Lloyd and Democrat K.Gunn McKay. Moss jumped out to a big early lead in statewide returns against Burton, who gave up almost certain cer-tain reelection to the House to run against Moss in a race considered consid-ered pivotal to Republican efforts to regain control of the Senate. With 93.6 percent of the votes in Moss led .Burton 192,860 to 147,580. In the race for the First Congressional Con-gressional District seat vacated by Burton, McKay piled up a substantial sub-stantial lead over Richards 92,877 to 86,667. Lloyd easily won his third term in the House from the state's Second Disrtict piling up 85J09 to opponent A.H. Nance's 74,992. American Independent Party candidate Clyde Freeman tallied in with 1,420. Burton stated, in conceding, "The voters of Utah have spoken and 1 accept their decision. Even ' in defeat there have been many rewarding things about this campaign. cam-paign. "We have put together one of the finest crews of volunteers in Utah history and with their help, we have kept the promise that this would be a vigorous, hard-fought battle in every corner of the state. Senator Moss upon receiving news of his victory said, "I am deeply grateful for the election in the face of the most lavishly planned plan-ned campaign in Utah history. It restores my faith in the democratic demo-cratic process and in the understanding under-standing and good common sense of our Utah people." The national picture: Senate. ..Democrats had won 20 and 32 holdovers for a total of 52. Republicans had won 8 and had 33 holdovers, for a total of 4 1 . A total of 5 1 is needed for a majority. House. ..Republicans had won 156seats Democrats 228. a gain of 6 in the Democratic Parly. Eighty -one are still undecided. A total of 218 scats are needed for a majority. In New York, conservative James L. Buckley, the administration's adminis-tration's choice was elected to the Senate over Republica Senator Charles Goodell and Democrat Representative Richard L. Otlin-ger. Otlin-ger. In other major races across the nation. Republican challenger William E. Brock wrestled the Tennessee Senate seat from veteran vet-eran Albert Gore; Rep. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. another of the GOP top challengers in Connecticut! defeated Sen. Thomas Dodd. Democral Ruebcn Askew ousted Florida's Republican Governor Gov-ernor Claude Kirk and the Democrats Dem-ocrats captured the governship of Pennsylvania and were leading in Ohio while Republicans cracked the Democratic hold on the slate houses of Tennessee and Connecticut. Connect-icut. Republican Senate challengers held the lead on the battleground of Ohio and Maryland. Adlai E. Stevenson III carried a hefty lead over Sen. Ralph T. Smith, the Republican appointee in Illinois to succeed the la le Sen. Everett M. Diiksen. In other top races. New York" s Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller romped to an unprecedented fourth term as he piled up a lead over Democral Arthur Goldberg. But in Arkansas, brother Win- lluop Rockefeller was losing to Democrat Dale Bumpers in his bid for a third term. Democrats ousted a GOP governor gov-ernor in Nebraska and retained governor's chairs in Kansas. Maryland. Mary-land. Georgia. Alabama and South Carolina. Republicans kepi the governorships in Vermont. Colorado. Colo-rado. Massachusetts and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. President Nixon was reported Tuesday night to be "very pleased" ple-ased" at the apparent Senate victories vic-tories of four Republicans in off-year elections. Press Secretary Ronald Zieglcr said the Republicans appeared lo have "turned the trend of tradition." tradi-tion." The party in the While House generally loses seals in years between presidential elections. |
