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First District, South Dakota...
...balloting for state legislatures. The Democrats won both houses in 36 states, an increase of eight over 1972 and their highest tally since 1936. Going into the election, the Republicans controlled both houses in 16 states; the total was four when the voting was done - Vermont, North Dakota, Kansas and Idaho...
...Long did not even have an opponent, and Hawaii's Daniel Inouye ran virtually unopposed. Alabama's James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
...have retained his seat by 3,100 votes, but the outcome was cast in doubt when his opponent, former Democratic Congressman Ed Edmondson, moved to invalidate the returns from Tulsa County, where Bellmon had piled up a majority of 21,000. Even more confused was the situation in North Dakota, where Veteran Republican Senator Milton Young, 76, was opposed by former Democratic Governor William L. Guy. Young was leading Guy by only 252 votes out of more than 236,000 cast, according to one unofficial tally, so the final result may not be known for several weeks...
...Viet Nam, for so many elections a burning issue, seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel...