title: 1960 United States Senate election in Maine
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  The 1960 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 8, 1960. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was re-elected to a third term over Democratic State Senator Lucia Cormier.
  
  This was the first election in U.S. Senate history in which all candidates or all major-party candidates were women. This was the first U.S. Senate election in Maine that was held in November, rather than in September.
  
  ## Republican primary
  
  ### Candidates
  
  * Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator since 1949
  
  ### Results
  
  Senator Smith was unopposed for renomination
  
  1960 Maine Republican U.S. Senate primary :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Republican | Margaret Chase Smith (inc.) | 67,765 | 100.00% |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 67,765 | 100.00% |
  
  ## Democratic primary
  
  ### Candidates
  
  * Lucia Cormier, State Representative from Rumford
  
  ### Results
  
  Representative Cormier was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
  
  1960 Democratic U.S. Senate primary :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Democratic | Lucia Cormier | 27,789 | 100.00% |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 27,789 | 100.00% |
  
  ## General election
  
  ### Results
  
  1960 U.S. Senate election in Maine :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Republican | Margaret Chase Smith (incumbent) | 256,890 | 61.65% | 3.04 |
  | | Democratic | Lucia Cormier | 159,809 | 38.35% | 3.04 |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 416,699 | 100.00% | |
  