INDIANA (13)

Nixon took Indiana as a Wallace challenge never developed. Incumbent Sen. Birch Bayh, a Democrat, had trouble overcoming William Ruckelshaus. Ruckelshaus moved out early but faded to lose by four per cent.

IOWA (9)

Nixon took the state handily.

Out-of-place Harold Hughes struggled past David Stanley by a bare four per cent after running neck and neck most of the evening hours. Hughes, who nominated McCarthy at the Democratic Convention, was not expected to win in hawkish, conservative Iowa.

KANSAS (7)

Traditionally Republican Kansas returned to the fold this year after its flirtation with Johnson in 1964. But despite the Nixon victory, Democratic Gov. Robert Docking won re-election over challenger Rick Harman. Robert Dole, a conservative Republican, won election to the Senate over Wichita lawyer William I. Robinson.

KENTUCKY (9)

Kentucky was the first border state to indicate that Wallace's strength would be held to the Deep South. Nixon's strategists postulated a "periphery theory" which required him to carry the border states, and in Kentucky, at least, it paid off. Nixon received 44 per cent of the vote, Humphrey 38 per cent, and Wallace, an amazingly small 18 per cent.

In the Senatorial race, Judge Marlow Cook, a Republican, defeated the Democrat, Katherine Peden, to keep possession of Thruston Morton's seat for the GOP.

LOUISIANA (10)

Russel B. Long, son of the Kingfish, was unopposed in his race for re-election to the Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert.

MAINE (4)

The Democratic presidential ticket sweep of the state helped dovish congressman Peter N. Kyros win handily over Republican challenger Horace A. Hildrath. Both candidates favored a bombing halt but Hildrath conditioned it. In the second district Democratic incumbent William D. Hathaway appeared to have won a tight race with State Representative Elden H. Shute. Shute's main charge was against Hathaway's "ultra liberal record."

MARYLAND (10)