1974 United States Senate election in Kansas

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The 1974 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 5, 1974. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bob Dole was narrowly re-elected to a second term in office. Dole was considered vulnerable due to his close association with President Richard Nixon as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1971 and 1972. In what would be the closest election of his 35-year congressional career, Dole won his second term by just 13,533 votes over Democrat William R. Roy, a Topeka physician and two-term U.S. representative. Kansas has been represented in the U.S. Senate exclusively by Republicans since 1939. Roy's 1.7 percent margin of loss in the election was the closest the Democrats have come to winning one of the state's Senate seats between their last victory in 1932 and their next victory in 2026.

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