1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey

1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey
November 7, 1978
 
Nominee Bill Bradley Jeff Bell
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,082,960 844,200
Percentage 55.32% 43.13%
County results
Bradley:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Bell:      40–50%      50–60%
U.S. senator before election

Clifford P. Case
Republican

 Elected U.S. Senator

Bill Bradley
Democratic

The 1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Senator Clifford P. Case ran for re-election to a fifth term in office, narrowly losing the Republican primary by anti-tax conservative Jeff Bell, who lost the general election to Democrat Bill Bradley. Bell was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for this seat again in 2014.

Primary elections were held on June 6, 1978. Case was defeated by Bell, a political novice forty years his junior, while Bradley easily won the Democratic primary over State Treasurer Richard Leone and state senator Alexander Menza.

This was the first time Democrats won this seat since 1936, and the first time since 1938 that Democrats held both seats in the state.

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