1914 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

1914 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
November 6, 1914
 
Nominee Paul O. Husting Francis E. McGovern Emil Seidel
Party Democratic Republican Socialist
First round 134,925
43.80%		 133,966
43.49%		 29,774
9.677%
Final round 135,306
50.18%		 134,339
49.82%		 Eliminated
County results
Husting:      30-40%      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
McGovern:      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
U.S. senator before election

Isaac Stephenson
Republican

 Elected U.S. Senator

Paul O. Husting
Democratic

The 1914 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1914. Incumbent Republican Senator Isaac Stephenson did not run for re-election.

Democratic State Senator Paul O. Husting narrowly defeated Republican Governor Francis E. McGovern. Socialist former mayor of Milwaukee Emil Seidel ran a strong third. This was the first United States Senate election to be held by a popular vote in Wisconsin. Uniquely for this contest, Wisconsin utilized an early form of instant-runoff voting; all other elections in the state in 1914 were conducted using traditional first-past-the-post voting and Wisconsin would discontinue using this method following this election.

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