Word: durkin
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Democrat John A. Durkin was elected to the United States Senate from New Hampshire yesterday, ending the longest Senate campaign in history...
...Durkin, a former state insurance commissioner, defeated former Republican Congressmen Louis C. Wyman, winning about 54 per cent of the vote to Wyman's 46 per cent. Carmen C. Chimento, the candidate of the right-wing American Independent Party received 3 per cent of the vote...
...Durkin won a surprisingly easy victory in what should have been an extremely close election, judging from pre-election polls, and from the virtual dead heat in the first run last November...
...Manchester, the state's biggest city and the home of both major candidates, Durkin more than doubled the, 12001 vote margin he held over Wyman in the 1974 election...
...Portsmouth, Durkin gained about 1200 votes over his November showing while Wyman's total dropped...