The Tally: G.O.P. Gains

It was all over except the shouting about some re-counting.* And the tabulation showed that 65% of eligible U.S. voters turned out in 1962. The total of 53,734,985 topped the previous nonpresidential election year of 1958 by some 5,800,000-- and of those new votes, Republicans got more than 4,200,000.

Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, where all seats are at stake in every biennial election, polled 24,116,473 votes (47.11%), against 19,843,471 votes (43.29%) in 1958. The vote for Democratic House candidates also in creased last November, from 25,801,888 to 26,948,221, but the party's percentage fell from 56.29% to 52.63%.

Much of the Republican increase came in the South. In the eleven states that comprised the Confederacy. G.O.P. House candidates polled 1,910,610 votes, or 31% of the total, compared with only 594,215, or 16.3% in 1958. In Georgia, the Republican share of the House vote jumped to 17.85% from zero in 1958; in Alabama, to 29.2% from 2.5%. The Democratic House vote in the South increased to 4,244,527. but represented only 68.75% of the total vote, down from 81.8% won by Democrats in 1958. Outside the South, Republican House candidates trailed Democrats by just under 500,000 votes; four years ago. the Democratic margin was more than 3,500,000.

For the Senate, Democratic candidates polled 21,390,756 votes while winning 25 contests. Republicans got 20,889,225 while winning 14. In 1958, Republicans polled 16,180,851 and won eight; Democrats polled 20,620,465, won 26.

Most striking of all. in 32 states Democratic gubernatorial candidates drew 17,910,000 votes against 18,537,748 for Republicans, who took over key statehouses in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio while dropping, most important, Massachusetts.

* Particularly in Minnesota, where the re-count between Incumbent Republican Governor Elmer Andersen, certified as the winner by a mere 142 votes, and Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag is little more than half over and will almost surely end up in the courts.

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