1950 United States Senate election in Georgia

none March 2026 September 2023 1950 U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1944 United States Senate election in Georgia 1944 1956 United States Senate election in Georgia 1956 June 28, 1950 x150px Walter F. George Democratic Party (United States) 410 470,156 82.50% x120px Alex McLennan Democratic Party (United States) 0 79,886 14.02% U.S. Senator Walter F. George Democratic Party (United States) Walter F. George Democratic Party (United States) The 1950 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1950. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Walter F. George was re-elected to a sixth term in office. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran with no opposition in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election. Democratic primary County unit system From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm County Unit System Georgia County Clerks Association June 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162547/http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm May 31, 2008 dead The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias/greenwood Eugene Talmadge The Jim Crow Encyclopedia The African American Experience August 12, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030046/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias%2Fgreenwood January 23, 2015 dead https://rbrl.blogspot.com/2011/10/county-unit-system-eh.html County Unit System, eh? October 6, 2011 Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies June 8, 2020 Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis. Candidates were required to obtain a majority of unit votes (not necessarily a majority of the popular vote), or 206 total unit votes, to win the election. If no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates to determine a winner.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott June 13, 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia June 8, 2020 Candidates Walter F. George, incumbent U.S. Senator Harry L. Hyde Alex McLennan, attorney McLennan, Friend of Herman, Plans To Oppose George https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053614/1950-05-04/ed-1/seq-1/ Houston Home Journal Perry, Houston County, Ga. May 4, 1950 1 August 17, 2021 Results Democratic primaryCongressional Quarterly 1998 114Georgia Register 1950 674-677CandidateVotes%CUV County unit votes Walter F. George 470,156 82.50 410 Alex McLennan 79,886 14.02 0 Harry L. Hyde 19,852 3.48 0 General election Results 1950 U.S. Senate election in GeorgiaCongressional Quarterly 1998 84Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives January 11, 1951 Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1950 https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1950election.pdf U.S. Government Printing Officehttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=223007 GA US Senate, 1950 Our Campaigns August 17, 2021America Votes 5 82Georgia Register 1952 458-459 Democratic Party (United States) Walter F. George (incumbent) 261,290 100.00% Write-ins 3 0.00% 261,293 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) See also 1950 United States Senate elections References 1 Bibliography Congressional Elections, 1946-1996 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-248-4 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Scammon Richard M. America Votes 5: a handbook of contemporary American election statistics, 1962 Washington, D.C. Governmental Affairs Institute 1964 https://archive.org/details/americavotes5han00scam/mode/2up America Votes 5 Compiled by Mrs. J. E. Hays, State Historian and Director 1950 Georgia's Official Register, 1945-1950 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1945.pdf Atlanta, Georgia State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1950 Compiled by Mrs. Mary Givens Bryan, State Historian and Director 1952 Georgia's Official Register, 1951-1952 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1951.pdf Atlanta, Georgia State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1952 Category:Single-candidate United States Senate elections 1950 Georgia United States Senate