page_title: 1970 United States Senate elections
section_title: New Jersey
hierarchical_section_title: 1970 United States Senate elections / New Jersey
caption_attribution_description: English: images of former Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (1919-2001)
context_page_description: The 1970 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate, taking place in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term as President. The Democrats lost a net of three seats, while the Republicans and the Conservative Party of New York picked up one net seat each, and former Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected as an independent.
  This was the most recent election in which a third party won a seat in the Senate until 2006.
  These were the last elections where a member of a political party other than the Democrats or Republicans had won one or more seats in the chamber. This was also the last midterm election until the 2018 midterm elections where a sitting President's party simultaneously experienced net gains in the Senate and net losses in the House. As of 2020, this is also the most recent cycle in which Democrats won Senate elections in Utah and Wyoming, and the most recent in which Republicans won a Senate election in Hawaii.
caption: Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-New Jersey) was re-elected.
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