1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina
The 1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 2, 1982, to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary elections for the Democrats were held on June 8 and the runoff elections were held two weeks later on June 22. Three incumbents were re-elected, but John Light Napier of the 6th congressional district was defeated in his bid for re-election and the open seat in the 5th congressional district was retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation after the elections was three Republicans and three Democrats.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Thomas F. Hartnett of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1981, defeated Democratic challenger W. Mullins McLeod.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Floyd Spence of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1971, defeated Democratic challenger Ken Mosely.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Butler Derrick of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1975, defeated Libertarian challenger Gordon T. Davis.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1979, defeated Democratic challenger Marion E. Tyus.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Kenneth Lamar Holland of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1975, opted to retire. John M. Spratt, Jr. won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican John S. Wilkerson in the general election.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district
Incumbent Republican Congressman John Light Napier of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1981, was defeated in his bid for re-election by Democrat Robin Tallon.


1982 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia
The 1982 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 2, 1982 to determine who will represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. Virginia had ten seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1980 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1982 United States Senate election in Arizona
The 1982 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini won re-election to a second term.


1982 United States Senate election in California
The 1982 United States Senate election in California took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator S. I. Hayakawa decided to retire after one term. Republican Pete Wilson, the Mayor of San Diego, won Hayakawa's open seat over Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and several minor candidates.


1982 United States Senate election in California, General election, Campaign
Wilson was known as a fiscal conservative who supported Proposition 13, although Wilson had opposed the measure while mayor of San Diego. However, Brown ran on his gubernatorial record of building the largest state budget surpluses in California history. Both Wilson and Brown were moderate-to-liberal on social issues, including support for abortion rights. The election was expected to be close, with Brown holding a slim lead in most of the polls leading up to Election Day. Wilson hammered away at Brown's appointment of California Chief Justice Rose Bird, using this to portray himself as tougher on crime than Brown was.


1982 United States Senate election in California, General election, Campaign
Brown's late entry into the 1980 Democratic presidential primary, after promising not to run, was also an issue. President Ronald Reagan made a number of visits to California late in the race to campaign for Wilson. Reagan quipped that the last thing he wanted to see was both of his home state's U.S. Senate seats falling into Democrats' hands, especially to be occupied by the man who succeeded him as governor. Despite exit polls indicating a narrow Brown victory, Wilson won by a wide margin.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut
The 1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker won re-election to a third term. He first defeated a challenge from Republican Prescott Bush Jr., the brother of Vice President George H.W. Bush and son of former Senator Prescott Bush, and then won the general election against Democratic U.S. Representative Toby Moffett.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut
As of 2021, this is the last time the Republicans won a U.S. Senate election in Connecticut.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Campaign
Prescott Bush announced his challenge to Senator Weicker on January 14 at the Old State House. Though the Reagan-Bush White House remained aloof from his campaign, he centered his message on his support for Reagan's policies and Weicker's "maverick" reputation.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Campaign
Bush drew controversy in early March at a meeting of the Greenwich Republican Women's Club in Weicker's hometown, when he commented with regard to illegal aliens: "I'm sure there are people in Greenwich who are glad they're here, because they wouldn't have someone to help in the house without them." Bush's campaign manager initially stated that the comment was "not in touch" and "didn't sound like Prescott Bush," but Bush himself latter admitted to saying it "jokingly" and expressed his concern that "there are a lot of these Mexicans, Colombians working in just about every community in the state."


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Campaign
In the first mid-March delegate election caucus in Fairfield, Bush swept all 17 delegates. Notably, the Fairfield caucus was the state's only one in which all registered Republicans could vote. Weicker's aides remarked the town was "Bush country," though they were surprised by his poor performance. Bush himself referred to the vote as "an overwhelming rejection" of Weicker. The Senator's campaign nonetheless suggested he would win "between 70 and 80 percent of the delegates at the convention." Polling also suggested that Weicker was the stronger candidate against Toby Moffett, the likely Democratic nominee.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Campaign
Soon after, author Robin Moore withdrew from the race and endorsed Bush.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Campaign
Late in the pre-convention race on July 17, state party chairman Ralph E. Capecelatro surprised many by endorsing Weicker on the grounds that Bush could not beat Moffett in November. Prior to his endorsement, many insiders believed Capecelatro was quietly supporting Bush. Soon thereafter, former party chair Jo McKenzie, who held an honorary position in the Bush campaign, endorsed Weicker as well, as did two former Bush campaign coordinators. The embrace by the party establishment came despite Weicker's long-standing feud with the state party and his denunciation of it as a "country club." Polling showed that Moffett led Bush by 12 points in the general election, but Bush called the contention that he could not win the election a "myth."


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Convention
Entering the convention, Weicker maintained his confidence that he would win the party endorsement but admitted that Bush would probably win the 20% necessary to force a September 7 primary contest. Bush described his chances of winning as "a long shot," but predicted he would be able to force a primary.


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Convention
The keynote speaker was Governor Tom Kean of New Jersey, who encouraged unity and stressed support for President Reagan and "new federalism." Speeches for the candidates were delivered by Roger Eddy, state party treasurer, for Weicker and John O'Connell, a Hartford city councilman, for Bush. Eddy referred to Bush's candidacy as a "dangerous joke" and the convention as a "Republican trial, and inquisition." O'Connell denounced Weicker as a man who "constitently spurns both his President and his party" and "believes that we can best solve the problems of the 1980s through confrontation and obstruction."


1982 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Convention
Bush easily won enough votes to be eligible for a September primary against Weicker. Immediately following the convention vote, Bush said there was "no question" he would contest the primary. However, Bush soon withdrew from the race to the surprise of his own supporters and opponents. He cited his desire to unify the Republican Party in advance of the general election. He had met with senior Republican Party officials after the convention, but denied pressure from the national party or the White House. Polls indicated that Bush led Weicker in a potential primary, but the race would have been expensive for both candidates and weakened the winner before facing Moffett.


1982 United States Senate election in Delaware
The 1988 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator William V. Roth won reelection to a third term.


1982 United States Senate election in Florida
The 1982 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 8, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles won re-election to a third term.


1982 United States Senate election in Hawaii
The 1982 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga won re-election to a second term.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana
The 1982 United States Senate election in Indiana was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Richard Lugar faced Democratic United States Representative Floyd Fithian in the general election. Lugar won with a margin of 53% of the vote, compared to Fithian's 46%.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana, Democratic primary, Campaign
After the 1980 Census, the Indiana General Assembly redistricted Indiana's congressional districts, pushing Democratic representative Floyd Fithian's district into more conservative territory. After redistricting, Fithian, the three term incumbent of Indiana's 2nd congressional district, decided to run for Secretary of State of Indiana, but withdrew from the primary to ultimately run for the United States Senate. He challenged fellow Democrat and one term Indiana State Senator Michael Kendall of Jasper, Indiana, who Fithian earlier encouraged to run for the Senate.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana, Democratic primary, Campaign
Kendall, who represented Indiana's 47th Senate district and formed the Notre Dame Students for Robert F. Kennedy organization during the 1968 presidential election, was seen a young progressive alternative to Fithian, who he called the "ideological twin of Richard Lugar." After the bitterly contested primary, Fithian prevailed over Kendall, winning with 59% of the vote.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana, Republican primary, Results
Incumbent United States Senator Richard Lugar won the republican nomination in an uncontested primary on May 4, 1982.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana, General election
In the general election, Lugar faced Fithian and American Party candidate Raymond James.


1982 United States Senate election in Indiana, General election
On November 5, 1982, Lugar defeated Fithian and James in the general election, winning 74 of Indiana's 93 counties.


1982 United States Senate election in Maine
The 1982 United States Senate election in Maine took place on November 2, 1982. Appointed incumbent Democratic senator George J. Mitchell won a full six-year term.


1982 United States Senate election in Maryland
The 1982 Senate election in Maryland took place on November 2, 1982 simultaneously with other elections for seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to gubernatorial openings. Incumbent Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes won reelection to a second term in office. He defeated the Republican nominee, former Representative from Maryland's 5th district and Prince George's County Executive Lawrence Hogan. Sarbanes even was able to win ruby-red Garrett County, which has never voted Democratic in presidential elections. Sarbanes would repeat this feat 6 years later in 1988, but no Democrat has ever won Garrett County in a Senate election since then.


1982 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
The 1982 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy won re-election to his fourth full term.


1982 United States Senate election in Michigan
The 1982 United States Senate election in Michigan took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Don Riegle was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Philip Ruppe.


1982 United States Senate election in Minnesota
The 1982 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator David Durenberger was reelected to his first full term.


1982 United States Senate election in Minnesota, General election, Campaign
Dayton, 35, self-financed his campaign. Married to a Rockefeller and heir to a department store, his net worth was an estimated $30 million. Durenberger won the special election to finish the term of the late Hubert Humphrey. He was considered a moderate, but supported Reagan's tax cuts. Dayton ran against Reaganomics. He has also campaigned against tax breaks for the wealthy and even promised "to close tax loopholes for the rich and the corporations—and if you think that includes the Daytons, you're right." Dayton spent over $7 million, Durenberger over $4 million.


1982 United States Senate election in Mississippi
The 1982 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John C. Stennis won re-election to his seventh term. As of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats won a U.S. Senate election in Mississippi.


1982 United States Senate election in Missouri
The 1982 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 2, 1982.


1982 United States Senate election in Missouri
Incumbent Senator John Danforth was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating State Sen. Harriett Woods.


1982 United States Senate election in Montana
The 1982 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent United States Senator John Melcher, who was first elected to the Senate in 1976, opted to run for re-election. He won the Democratic primary after he faced a tough intraparty challenger, and advanced to the general election, where he faced Larry R. Williams, an author and the Republican nominee, and Larry Dodge, the Libertarian nominee. Though his margin was reduced significantly from his initial election, Melcher still comfortably won re-election to his second and final term in the Senate.


1982 United States Senate election in Montana, Democratic primary, Campaign
During his first term in the Senate, Melcher's relative conservatism for a Democrat prompted a primary challenger in Michael Bond, a housing contractor who campaigned on his opposition to nuclear war. Bond attacked Melcher for voting to increase spending on nuclear arms, and pledged to reduce military spending to $60 billion and to use the savings to reduce interest rates.


1982 United States Senate election in Montana, Democratic primary, Campaign
During the campaign, Bond came under fire from the state branches of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans for turning in his draft card in 1967 to protest the Vietnam War, who put out a statement, saying, "There is no place in the U.S. Senate for any draft dodger, draft card burner or draft protester of any kind."


1982 United States Senate election in Nebraska
The 1982 United States Senate election in Nebraska was held on November 5, 1982 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Nebraska. Democratic U.S. Senator Edward Zorinsky won re-election.


1982 United States Senate election in Nevada
The 1982 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 5, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howard Cannon ran for re-election to a fifth term, but lost to Republican Chic Hecht.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey
The 1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 2, 1982.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey
The seat was effectively vacated by the resignation of Harrison Williams amid scandal in March; his appointed successor, Nicholas F. Brady, did not run.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey
Democratic businessman Frank Lautenberg won the seat  in a major upset, defeating a large field of eight Democratic candidates and Republican Millicent Fenwick, a popular, well-known U.S. Representative. Lautenberg's campaign was largely self-funded and overcame early polling leads for Fenwick by outspending her 2-to-1 and emphasizing the persistently poor economic conditions under Republican President Ronald Reagan and the conservative Congress.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Background
The seat had been occupied by Democrat Harrison A. Williams, who resigned on March 11, 1982, after being implicated in the Abscam scandal. After Williams' resignation, Republican Governor Thomas Kean appointed Republican Nicholas F. Brady to the seat. Brady served in the Senate through the primary and general elections but did not run for the seat himself.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Fenwick, an extremely popular Congresswoman, centered much of her primary campaign on her electability, name recognition, and ability to win down-ballot races for local Republican candidates. Some framed the race as a referendum on the Reagan administration's economic policies. Bell himself said, "If I lose, I think a lot of obituaries are going to be written for Reaganomics."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Bell framed himself as a strong supporter, or even architect, of President Reagan's economic platform, blaming the Federal Reserve Board's high interest rates for slow economic growth. Fenwick instead blamed the large federal budget deficit and called for cuts to public works to reduce spending, while preserving social services.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Both Bell and Fenwick supported a freeze on nuclear weapons contingent on the United States surpassing the Soviet Union's arsenal, while Morris opposed a de jure freeze, arguing that a de facto freeze already existed. Morris also supported a sharp increase in military spending to deter Soviet expansion into the Middle East and Western Hemisphere.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Morris also proposed intervention in the Falklands War to force both Argentina and the United Kingdom to withdraw, citing the Monroe Doctrine. He also challenged New York City mayor Ed Koch, then running for Governor, to swim from Manhattan to the Jersey shore to bring attention to New York City pollution.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
After the first debate, Morris withdrew from the race, saying that he had made his point and did not have the funding to continue. Though he chose to remain neutral, his withdrawal was seen to benefit Bell, a fellow conservative who had also challenged Clifford Case in primary. Bell admitted he had asked Morris to withdraw, though he did not know how much effect this had.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Near the end of the primary, Bell unsuccessfully sought the endorsement of Governor Tom Kean.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign
Bell's campaign may have been undercut when President Reagan endorsed Fenwick's economic platform, though not the candidate herself, by blaming the federal budget deficit for high inflation.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Polling
Late in the campaign, Fenwick's aides cited her polling lead at 15 percentage points.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Results
Fenwick defeated by Bell with 54% of the vote. Bell called Fenwick at 11 P.M. on election night to concede. He maintained his interpretation that his defeat was a referendum on Reaganomics and that Fenwick's victory was a sign that voters rejected Reagan's policies.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Candidates, Withdrew
The Democratic primary was previewed in The New York Times as a "free-for-all," with ten candidates entering before the April 30 filing deadline and no clear favorite.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Candidates, Withdrew
The first candidate to enter the race was Howard Rosen, a lawyer from Millburn. Representatives Andrew Maguire and Joseph LeFante both had large bases in their home counties, Bergen and Hudson respectively. Frank Lautenberg, the CEO of ADP, had no natural political base and had never run for office, but had a well-financed media campaign and courted key endorsements.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Candidates, Withdrew
The last major candidate to join the race was Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a Mercer County Freeholder from Princeton and the daughter of late House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Congresswoman Lindy Boggs. Sigmund campaigned for the newly-drawn 7th congressional district for much of the spring, but joined the Senate race after being recruited by Democratic Congressmen Robert A. Roe, James J. Howard, and William J. Hughes. She announced her campaign just one hour before the filing deadline, on the anniversary of her father's birthday.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Candidates, Withdrew
Donald Cresitello, a former mayor of Morristown, and Richard McAleer, a car-leasing manager, were also late entries.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
Lautenberg's campaign was largely self-funded, giving him an advantage in a year when Democratic fundraising was hard to come by following Williams's scandal and James Florio's narrow, expensive loss in the 1981 election for governor. His campaign spending was criticized by LeFante.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
Sigmund had support from liberals and some labor elements. She ran a spirited, if brief and underfunded campaign, emphasizing her gender, arguing a woman was best suited to take on Fenwick in the fall campaign, and women's issues. At her campaign announcement, Sigmund said that a race between herself and Fenwick "would be the most exciting campaign in the country." She also cited women's perceived compassion and mediating skills as beneficial in politics. One Sigmund supporter referred to the primary race as "Snow White and the Nine Dwarfs."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
Sigmund's campaign likely cost Andrew Maguire the endorsement of Mercer County Democrats and women's groups, two groups that had favored him before her entry. Sigmund may also have cut into Maguire's support with labor and blacks. Sigmund also drew funding and organizational help from Washington.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
LeFante's campaign had the key support of the Hudson County Democratic machine, which was expected to deliver him 50,000 votes, about half of what was expected to be necessary to win. Sigmund herself called him the front-runner.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
Rosen, who spent $1,000,000 and campaigned vigorously, was forced to cease campaigning late in the race due to a kidney ailment.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
In the final weeks, Maguire focused his campaign on North and Central Jersey, making 32 stops at train stations, shopping malls, and factories. Lautenberg and LeFante both campaigned in North Jersey, while Sigmund campaigned with Anne Clark Martindell and Claude Pepper in Trenton.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign
On election night, the results swung back and forth, with Lautenberg, Maguire, and LeFante each holding the lead several times. Lautenberg claimed victory at 11:40 P.M. and Maguire conceded shortly after. LeFante declined to concede immediately, saying he would wait until Wednesday to re-examine the votes.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign, Results
Lautenberg won a narrow victory with 26% of the vote to 23% for Maguire and 20% for LeFante. Sigmund ran fourth with 11%. Lautenberg had no strong political base, but stayed close enough to Maguire in Bergen and LeFante in Hudson to carry the state on the back of narrow victories throughout South Jersey.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign, Results
Some Maguire supporters suggested that he would have won had Sigmund not joined the race; the Maguire campaign itself denied this, arguing that Sigmund pulled from all candidates.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign, Results
Maguire might also have won the race if he had better ballot positioning; estimates at the time suggested 5 to 10 percent of ballots were cast for the first name on the list regardless of candidate. The only county Maguire won outside his native Bergen was Hunterdon, the only county where he had the first position. Likewise, LeFante only won his native Hudson and two counties where he had top position: Cape May and Camden. Richard McAleer spent no money on his campaign, but won more than half his votes in Mercer, Union, and Warren, where he led the ballot. In Union, he finished ahead of more serious candidates Sigmund and LeFante.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
After Williams's resignation and during much of the primary campaign, Democrats assumed that if Fenwick were nominated, she would win easily, and the primary task was to keep her margin low enough to preserve Democratic candidates for local offices.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
Fenwick ran on a very progressive platform and polls put her ahead by 18 points. Lautenberg even quipped that she was "the most popular candidate in the country." Lautenberg spent more of his own money, eventually out-spending Fenwick two-to-one. He emphasized Ronald Reagan's unpopularity, reminded the voters that she would be a vote for a Republican majority in the Senate (including tying her to Strom Thurmond), and referred to her as "erratic" and "eccentric."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
By October, Lautenberg compared his campaign to Mario Cuomo's in the summer's New York Democratic primary, in which he trailed Ed Koch by a wide margin in all polls but won a major upset. Lautenberg faced a problem early in his campaign when he claimed that Hudson County Democratic leaders asked him to pay off Joseph A. LeFante's primary campaign debts and barred him from incumbent U.S. Representative Frank J. Guarini's district campaign offices until he paid. Mayor of Jersey City Gerald McCann denied that he had requested any sum and accused Lautenberg of threatening Hudson County officials by supporting primary challengers in local elections if they withheld support.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
In mid-October, Lautenberg attacked Fenwick as "a little eccentric," quoting former President Gerald Ford. Lautenberg also said she was "erratic in terms of proposals, work and programs." He denied this was an attack on her age, and said he was not challenging her "fitness to serve" but her "ability to do the job."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
By October 27, the race had narrowed significantly, as both candidates acknowledged. On October 27, Lautenberg held a rally with Ted Kennedy at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark with 1,200 in attendance. Fenwick toured a housing project in East Orange and took interviews with New Jersey Network and a Spanish-language channel.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
Fenwick continued to hammer her independence and criticized Lautenberg for distorting her record. In particular, she was incensed by a piece of literature saying Fenwick supported South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond: "If Fenwick goes to the Senate, she'll support voting-rights opponent Strom Thurmond." Fenwick, a long-time member of the NAACP since before her time in office, objected. Lautenberg responded, "Mrs. Fenwick's anger has apparently overtaken her...


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
I think that when she comes up with that kind of a campaign after complimently me a couple of weeks ago for my gentlemanly way of campaigning and turns now, instead of defending her record, to talk about mud slinging, shows how desperate she is." He did not withdraw any charges, but said, "Mrs. Fenwick's campaign has taken a radical turn, changing from one where she presented herself as a public servant to one where personality became an issue."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign
On October 31, after the final debate, Lautenberg campaigned with former Vice President Walter Mondale and Second Lady Joan Mondale.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Polling
Early polling indicated a large lead for Fenwick, as much as 18 percentage points. However, this polling narrowed considerably by the end of October. Public polls showed Lautenberg had pulled even or ahead. Nevertheless, Fenwick's campaign said internal polling gave her a lead of no less than 5 percentage points and as much as 7.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Polling
An October survey by the Eagleton Institute of Politics found that six out of seven undecided voters said that Fenwick's sex made no difference and one in ten said they would be more likely to vote for Fenwick because she was a woman. Sixty percent of all voters said sex made no difference, while 26 percent said they preferred a female and 14 percent preferred a male.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Debates
The second debate, sponsored by the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce and hosted by the Birchwood Manor on October 3, centered on economic issues. Fenwick criticized Lautenberg for claiming to have created 16,000 jobs, most of which she said were created by acquisition. Lautenberg denied this and said his business was created by "hard work." Lautenberg referred to Fenwick's congressional and legislative voting record as "anti-job," criticizing her vote to cute federally underwritten college loans. Fenwick criticized Lautenberg's support of an "American-made" bill that she said would cost 15,000 American jobs.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Debates
The candidates also differed over the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, for which Fenwick voted. Lautenberg said the Act did too little to reduce inflation and that the appropriate way to cut unemployment was to fund technological training and fund transportation. Fenwick said that Lautenberg's criticism of spending cuts "reflects the old appetite for bigger government and more spending." Fenwick did criticize Reagan for imposing sanctions on a Soviet pipeline, expressing sympathy for "Solidarity and Polish dissidents" but saying that the sanctions "cost[] jobs in the United States."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Debates
Fenwick described Lautenberg's performance in the fifth debate as "kind of pathetic."


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Debates
The sixth and final debate was held on October 31 and "reflected both the apparent closeness of the race and the acrimony that has often marked its final stages." Fenwick emphasized her image and character, and again criticized Lautenberg's campaign as outrageously deceptive. Lautenberg defending his campaign spending as "highlight[ing] her record" and attacked the national Republican slogan of "stay the course." He blamed her criticism on tightening polls. Jobs and the economy remained the major issue. Lautenberg contended that Fenwick supported cuts to Social Security benefits, which she denied.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Debates
Lautenberg directly defended his campaign literature tying Fenwick to Strom Thurmond, arguing that while he was "not accusing Mrs. Fenwick of anti-voting rights views," her victory would preserve the Republican Senate majority and thereby empower Thurmond. After the debate, Fenwick said she would prefer a new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee to replace Thurmond.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Results
Lautenberg won by 51% to 48%, in what was considered a major upset.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Aftermath
Brady, who had just a few days left in his appointed term, resigned on December 27, 1982, allowing Lautenberg to take office several days before the traditional swearing-in of senators, which gave him an edge in seniority over the other freshman senators.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Aftermath
After her term expired in January, Fenwick retired from electoral politics. President Reagan appointed her United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and she served from 1983 to 1987.


1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Aftermath
The age issue would be used against Lautenberg in his own re-election bid in 2008.


1982 United States Senate election in New Mexico
The 1982 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1982. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt was running for re-election to a second term, but lost to Democrat Jeff Bingaman.


1982 United States Senate election in New Mexico, Campaign
Bingaman ran advertisements that criticized Schmitt's views on a minimum Social Security and mining on federally protected land. Schmitt countered these ads by criticizing Bingaman's work as attorney general, citing the handling of the 1980 state prison riot and asking the governor to pardon an inmate that was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Another ad that Bingaman ran asked, "What on Earth has he done for you lately?"


1982 United States Senate election in New Mexico, Campaign
The two negative ads that Schmitt ran were received poorly and later pulled.


1982 United States Senate election in New Mexico, Aftermath
Schmitt thought the media was biased against him during the campaign.


1982 United States Senate election in New York
The 1982 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan won re-election to a second term.


1982 United States Senate election in North Dakota
The 1982 U.S. Senate election for the state of North Dakota was held November 2, 1982. The incumbent, North Dakota Democratic NPL Party (Dem-NPL) Senator Quentin Burdick, sought and received re-election to his fifth term, defeating Republican candidate Gene Knorr.


1982 United States Senate election in North Dakota
Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was cattle rancher Gene Knorr. Burdick and Knorr won the primary elections for their respective parties. Burdick's campaign was known for employing more television advertisement spending when compared with his campaigns in the past, as well as making several negative portrayals. Knorr had the support of Vice President George H. W. Bush, who campaigned in state to support his candidacy. The election was also noted as the first where Burdick's age began to become an issue.


1982 United States Senate election in North Dakota
Burdick, who was 74 during the year of the election, faced a much younger Knorr, who was 41. At one point, Burdick challenged Knorr to a fistfight to prove his vitality; but the challenge, assumed to be a joke, never occurred. After being defeated, Knorr moved to Washington, D.C., where he took the position of staff vice president with Philip Morris International.


1982 United States Senate election in North Dakota
One independent candidate, Anna B. Bourgois, also filed before the deadline, running under her self-created party titled God, Family, and Country. Bourgois would later run for North Dakota's other United States Senate seat, an independent in 1986, challenging Mark Andrews. She received over 8,000 votes in the election, which is rather high for an independent. Some attribute her large number of votes to the name of her party – which was based on things that North Dakotans valued. Despite the result, Bourgois' campaign still had little impact on the outcome.


1982 United States Senate election in North Dakota, Election results
Prior to the 1982 Senate campaign, Knorr had been working in Washington, D.C., since 1970, when he worked for the Department of Treasury. He began working in Washington, D.C., residing in McLean, Virginia, after receiving a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University, where he was celebrated in debate. From Treasury, he worked as a lobbyist with Charls E. Walker Associates.


1982 United States Senate election in Ohio
The 1982 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Republican State Senator Paul Pfeifer. Along with the gubernatorial election that same year, this election is the last time Butler County voted Democratic in a statewide election.


1982 United States Senate election in Ohio, Republican primary, Campaign
Most polls showed U.S. Representative John Ashbrook winning the primary with a plurality, but he died on April 24 from a gastric hemorrhage.


1982 United States Senate election in Ohio, Republican primary, Campaign
Ashbrook supporter and State Senator Bill Ress launched a write-in campaign with the endorsement of Jean Spencer Ashbrook, the Representative's widow.


1982 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1982 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Heinz successfully sought re-election to another term, defeating Democratic nominee Cyril Wecht.


1982 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Campaign
John Heinz's Democratic opponent in the 1982 election was Allegheny County commissioner and former coroner Cyril Wecht, who lacked significant name recognition outside of Pittsburgh, his home town. Although the 1982 elections were a setback nationally for incumbent President Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party, neither Heinz nor incumbent Republican governor Dick Thornburgh, who was also up for re-election in 1982, were challenged by Democrats with statewide prominence. Wecht ran a low-budget campaign lacking the assets to boost his name recognition; The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a headline dubbing the race "The Race for Senator No One Seemed to Notice."


1982 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Campaign
Despite this, Heinz ran a cautious campaign, running as a moderate due to Pennsylvania's unemployment, 11%, one of the highest in the nation at the time, as well as the declining health of Pennsylvania's coal mining, manufacturing and steel industries. In the end, Heinz won the election by a wide margin, winning 59.3% of the popular vote. Wecht won 39.2% of the popular vote.


1982 United States Senate election in Rhode Island
The 1982 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican Senator John Chafee successfully sought re-election to a second term, defeating Democrat Julius C. Michaelson.


1982 United States Senate election in Tennessee
The 1982 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 2, 1982, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Sasser won re-election. Sasser defeated Republican Robin Beard.


1982 United States Senate election in Texas
The 1982 United States Senate election in Texas took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election to a third term in office, defeating Republican U.S. Representative James M. Collins.


1982 United States Senate election in Utah
The 1982 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 2, 1982, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, as well as various State and Local elections. Republican Orrin Hatch won re-election against Democratic challenger Ted Wilson.


1982 United States Senate election in Vermont
The 1982 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Republican Robert Stafford successfully ran for re-election to another term in the United States Senate, defeating Democratic candidate James A. Guest. This election marks the last time a Democrat won any counties in a race for Vermont's Class 1 US Senate seat, as well as the last time the winner of the seat did not win every county in the state.


1982 United States Senate election in Virginia
The 1982 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 2, 1982. U.S. Representative from Virginia's 1st district, Paul Trible replaced Independent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., who was stepping down after three terms.


1982 United States Senate election in Washington
The 1982 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat Henry M. Jackson defeated Republican nominee Douglas Jewett with 68.96% of the vote.


1982 United States Senate election in West Virginia
The 1982 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Robert Byrd won re-election to a fifth term.


1982 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Campaign
Benedict, a freshman congressman, made great note of Byrd's record of high office in the Ku Klux Klan, his avoidance of service in World War II, and the fact that Byrd, then alone among members of Congress, owned no home in the state he represented. His campaign represented the last serious and well-funded effort to unseat Byrd, spending $1,098,218. Byrd was Minority Leader at the time.


1982 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
The 1982 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democrat William Proxmire defeated Republican nominee Scott McCallum with 63.65% of the vote.


1982 United States Senate election in Wyoming
The 1982 United States Senate election in Wyoming took place on November 2,1982. Incumbent Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop ran for his second term. He was challenged in the general election by former State Senator Rodger McDaniel, the Democratic nominee. Despite the strong national environment for Democratic candidates that year, Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler's landslide re-election, and the closeness of Wallop's campaign with former Democratic Senator Gale W. McGee in 1976, the contest between Wallop and McDaniel was largely non-competitive. Wallop won re-election by a wide margin, winning 57% of the vote to McDaniel's 43%.


1982 United States Senate elections
The 1982 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 1982. They were elections for the United States Senate following Republican gains in 1980. A total of four seats changed hands between parties, and the lone independent, Senator Harry Byrd Jr., retired. Democrats made a net gain of one seat in the elections. A special election was held in Washington state in 1983.


1982 United States Senate elections
As of 2021, this is the last time Democrats won a U.S. Senate election in Mississippi and the last time Republicans won one in Connecticut. These are also the most recent elections from which no elected Senators are still serving.


1982 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses
Both parties gained one seat each from the defeat of an incumbent. Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon of Nevada lost to Republican Chic Hecht, and Republican incumbent Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico lost to Democrat Jeff Bingaman.


1982 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses
The open seat in Virginia that had been held by independent Harry F. Byrd Jr. was taken by Republican Paul Trible.


1982 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses
The open seat in New Jersey that was held by appointed Republican Nicholas F. Brady was taken by Democrat Frank Lautenberg.


1982 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections leading to the next Congress
In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1983; ordered by state.


1982 United States Senate elections, Arizona
Incumbent Democrat Dennis DeConcini won re-election to a second term over Republican Pete Dunn, State Representative.


1982 United States Senate elections, California
Incumbent Republican S. I. Hayakawa decided to retire after one term. Republican Pete Wilson, Mayor of San Diego and former Assemblyman, won the open seat over Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.


1982 United States Senate elections, California
Wilson was known as a fiscal conservative who supported Proposition 13, although Wilson had opposed the measure while mayor of San Diego. However, Brown ran on his gubernatorial record of building the largest state budget surpluses in California history. Both Wilson and Brown were moderate-to-liberal on social issues, including support for abortion rights. The election was expected to be close, with Brown holding a slim lead in most of the polls leading up to Election Day. Wilson hammered away at Brown's appointment of California Chief Justice Rose Bird, using this to portray himself as tougher on crime than Brown was.


1982 United States Senate elections, California
Brown's late entry into the 1980 Democratic presidential primary, after promising not to run, was also an issue. President Ronald Reagan made a number of visits to California late in the race to campaign for Wilson. Reagan quipped that the last thing he wanted to see was one of his home state's U.S. Senate seats falling into Democrats' hands, especially to be occupied by the man who succeeded him as governor. Despite exit polls indicating a narrow Brown victory, Wilson won by a wide margin.


1982 United States Senate elections, Connecticut
Incumbent Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr. won re-election to a third term over Democratic member of the House Toby Moffett.


1982 United States Senate elections, Delaware
Incumbent Republican Bill V. Roth won reelection to a third term over the state's Democratic Insurance Commissioner David N. Levinson.


1982 United States Senate elections, Florida
Incumbent Democrat Lawton Chiles won re-election to a third term over Republican state senator Van B. Poole.


1982 United States Senate elections, Hawaii
Incumbent Democrat Spark Matsunaga won re-election to a second term over Republican Clarence Brown, a retired Foreign Service officer


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
Incumbent Republican Richard Lugar faced Democratic United States Representative Floyd Fithian in the general election. Lugar won with a margin of 54% of the vote, compared to Fithian's 46%.


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
After the 1980 Census, the Indiana General Assembly redistricted Indiana's congressional districts, pushing Democratic representative Floyd Fithian's district into more conservative territory. After redistricting, Fithian, the three term incumbent of Indiana's 2nd congressional district, decided to run for Secretary of State of Indiana, but withdrew from the primary to ultimately run for the United States Senate. He challenged fellow Democrat and one term Indiana State Senator Michael Kendall of Jasper, Indiana, who Fithian earlier encouraged to run for the Senate.


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
Kendall, who represented Indiana's 47th Senate district and formed the Notre Dame Students for Robert Kennedy organization during the 1968 presidential election, was seen a young progressive alternative to Fithian, who he called the "ideological twin of Richard Lugar." After the bitterly contested primary, Fithian prevailed over Kendall, winning with 59% of the vote.


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
Incumbent United States Senator Richard Lugar won the republican nomination in an uncontested primary on May 4, 1982.


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
In the general election, Lugar faced Fithian and American Party candidate Raymond James.


1982 United States Senate elections, Indiana
On November 5, 1982, Lugar defeated Fithian and James in the general election, winning 74 of Indiana's 93 counties.


1982 United States Senate elections, Maine
Incumbent Democrat George J. Mitchell won his re-election to his full six-year term over Republican U.S. Representative David F. Emery.


1982 United States Senate elections, Maryland
Incumbent Democrat Paul Sarbanes won re-election to a second term in office. He defeated the Republican former Representative from Maryland's 5th district and Prince George's County Executive Lawrence Hogan.


1982 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts
Incumbent Democrat Ted Kennedy won re-election to his fourth full term over Republican Ray Shamie, a millionaire businessman and metalwork entrepreneur.


1982 United States Senate elections, Michigan
Incumbent Democrat Don Riegle won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Philip Ruppe, a former U.S. Representative from Houghton.


1982 United States Senate elections, Minnesota
Incumbent Republican David Durenberger won re-election to his first full term over Democratic businessman Mark Dayton.


1982 United States Senate elections, Minnesota
Dayton, 35, self-financed his campaign. Married to a Rockefeller and heir to a department store, his net worth was an estimated $30 million. Durenberger, who in 1978 and won the special election to finish the term of the late Hubert Humphrey, was largely unknown. He was considered a moderate, but supported Reagan's tax cuts. Dayton ran against Reaganomics. He has also campaigned against tax breaks for the wealthy and even promised "to close tax loopholes for the rich and the corporations—and if you think that includes the Daytons, you're right." By the end of September, the senate election already became the most expensive election of all-time, with over $8 million being spent. Dayton spent over $5 million, while Durenberger spent over $2 million.


1982 United States Senate elections, Mississippi
Incumbent Democrat John C. Stennis won re-election to his seventh term over Republican Haley Barbour, a political operative who campaigned for U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.


1982 United States Senate elections, Montana
Incumbent John Melcher, who was first elected to the Senate in 1976, opted to run for re-election. He won the Democratic primary after he faced a tough intraparty challenger, and advanced to the general election, where he faced Larry R. Williams, an author and the Republican nominee, and Larry Dodge, the Libertarian nominee. Though his margin was reduced significantly from his initial election, Melcher still comfortably won re-election to his second and final term in the Senate.


1982 United States Senate elections, Montana
During his first term in the Senate, Melcher's relative conservatism for a Democrat prompted a primary challenger in Michael Bond, a housing contractor who campaigned on his opposition to nuclear war. Bond attacked Melcher for voting to increase spending on nuclear arms, and pledged to reduce military spending to $60 billion and to use the savings to reduce interest rates.


1982 United States Senate elections, Montana
During the campaign, Bond came under fire from the state branches of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans for turning in his draft card in 1967 to protest the Vietnam War, who put out a statement, saying, "There is no place in the U.S. Senate for any draft dodger, draft card burner or draft protester of any kind."


1982 United States Senate elections, Nevada
Incumbent Democrat Howard Cannon ran for re-election to a fifth term, but lost to Republican State Senator Chic Hecht.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Jersey
Democrat Frank Lautenberg won for the seat held by retiring incumbent Republican Senator Nicholas Brady. Lautenberg won the seat with a margin of 3.2% over member of the House Millicent Fenwick.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Jersey
Cresitello dropped out of the race on May 27 but remained on the June 8 primary ballot.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Jersey
The seat had been occupied by Democrat Harrison A. Williams, who resigned on March 11, 1982, after being implicated in the Abscam scandal. After Williams' resignation, Republican Governor Thomas Kean appointed Republican Nicholas F. Brady to the seat. Brady served in the Senate through the primary and general elections but did not run for the seat himself.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Jersey
In the general election, Lautenberg faced popular Republican member of the House Millicent Fenwick. She ran on a very progressive platform and polls in the Summer of 1982 put her ahead by 18 points. Even Lautenberg quipped that she was "the most popular candidate in the country." Lautenberg spent more of his own money, eventually out-spending Fenwick two-to-one. He emphasised President Reagan's unpopularity, reminded the voters that she would be a vote for a Republican majority in the Senate and called Fenwick, who was 72, "eccentric" and "erratic" but denied that he was referring to her age. He did however point out that she would be almost 80 at the end of her first term and was therefore unlikely to gain much seniority in the Senate. Coincidentally, the age issue would be used against Lautenberg in his own re-election bid in 2008.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Jersey
Lautenberg won by 51% to 48%, in what was considered a major upset. Brady, who had just a few days left in his appointed term, resigned on December 27, 1982, allowing Lautenberg to take office several days before the traditional swearing-in of senators, which gave him an edge in seniority over the other freshman senators.


1982 United States Senate elections, New Mexico
Incumbent Republican Harrison Schmitt was running for re-election to a second term, but lost to Democrat Jeff Bingaman, Attorney General of New Mexico.


1982 United States Senate elections, New York
Incumbent Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan won re-election to a second term over Republican Assemblywoman Florence Sullivan.


1982 United States Senate elections, North Dakota
The incumbent, North Dakota Democratic NPL Party (Dem-NPL) Quentin Burdick, sought and received re-election to his fifth term, defeating Republican candidate Gene Knorr.


1982 United States Senate elections, North Dakota
Only Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was cattle rancher Gene Knorr. Burdick and Knorr won the primary elections for their respective parties. Burdick's campaign was known for employing more television advertisement spending when compared with his campaigns in the past, as well as making several negative portrayals. Knorr had the support of Vice President George H. W. Bush, who campaigned in state to support his candidacy. The election was also noted as the first where Burdick's age began to become an issue.


1982 United States Senate elections, North Dakota
Burdick, who was 74 during the year of the election, faced a much younger Knorr, who was 41. At one point, Burdick challenged Knorr to a fistfight to prove his vitality; but the challenge, assumed to be a joke, never occurred. After being defeated, Knorr moved to Washington, D.C., where he took the position of staff vice president with Philip Morris International.


1982 United States Senate elections, North Dakota
One independent candidate, Anna B. Bourgois, also filed before the deadline, running under her self-created party titled God, Family, and Country. Bourgois would later run for North Dakota's other United States Senate seat as an independent in 1986, challenging Mark Andrews. She received over 8,000 votes in the election, which is rather high for an independent. Some attribute her large number of votes to the name of her party – which was based on things that North Dakotans valued. Despite the result, Bourgois' campaign still had little impact on the outcome.


1982 United States Senate elections, North Dakota
Prior to the 1982 Senate campaign, Knorr had been working in Washington, DC since 1970 when he worked for the Department of Treasury. He began working in Washington, DC, residing in McLean, Virginia after receiving a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University where he was celebrated in debate. From Treasury, he worked as a lobbyist with Charls E. Walker Associates.


1982 United States Senate elections, Ohio
Incumbent Democrat Howard Metzenbaum successfully sought re-election to his third term, defeating Republican State Senator from Bucyrus Paul Pfeifer.


1982 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
Incumbent Republican H. John Heinz III successfully sought re-election to another term, defeating Democratic nominee Cyril Wecht, member of the Allegheny County Board of Commissioners.


1982 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
John Heinz's Democratic opponent in the 1982 election was Allegheny County commissioner and former coroner Cyril Wecht, who lacked significant name recognition outside of Pittsburgh, his home town. Although the 1982 elections were a setback nationally for incumbent President Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party, neither Heinz nor incumbent Republican governor Dick Thornburgh, who was also up for re-election in 1982, were challenged by Democrats with statewide prominence. Wecht ran a low-budget campaign lacking the assets to boost his name recognition; The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a headline dubbing the race "The Race for Senator No One Seemed to Notice."


1982 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania
Despite this, Heinz ran a cautious campaign, running as a moderate due to Pennsylvania's unemployment, 11%, one of the highest in the nation at the time, as well as the declining health of Pennsylvania's coal mining, manufacturing and steel industries. In the end, Heinz won the election by a wide margin, winning 59.3% of the popular vote. Wecht won 39.2% of the popular vote.


1982 United States Senate elections, Rhode Island
Incumbent Republican John Chafee successfully sought re-election to a second term, defeating Democrat Julius C. Michaelson, former Attorney General of Rhode Island.


1982 United States Senate elections, Tennessee
Democrat Jim Sasser was re-elected with 61.9% of the vote, over Republican Robin Beard, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.


1982 United States Senate elections, Texas
Incumbent Democrat Lloyd Bentsen successfully ran for re-election to his third term, defeating Republican U.S. Representative James M. Collins.


1982 United States Senate elections, Utah
Incumbent Republican Orrin Hatch successfully ran for re-election to his second term, defeating Democrat Mayor of Salt Lake City Ted Wilson.


1982 United States Senate elections, Vermont
Incumbent Republican Robert Stafford successfully ran for re-election to another term in the United States Senate, defeating Democratic candidate James A. Guest.


1982 United States Senate elections, Virginia
U.S. Representative from Virginia's 1st district, Paul Trible replaced Independent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., who was stepping down after three terms. He beat Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Richard Joseph Davis.


1982 United States Senate elections, Washington
Incumbent Democrat Henry M. Jackson successfully ran for re-election to his sixth and final term, defeating Republican challenger Doug Jewett, a Seattle City Attorney and independent King Lysen, a state senator.


1982 United States Senate elections, West Virginia
Incumbent Democrat Robert Byrd won re-election to a fifth term over Republican Cleve Benedict, a freshman member of the House.


1982 United States Senate elections, West Virginia
Benedict made great note of Byrd's record of high office in the Ku Klux Klan, his avoidance of service in World War II, and the fact that Byrd, then alone among members of Congress, owned no home in the state he represented. His campaign represented the last serious and well-funded effort to unseat Byrd, spending $1,098,218. Byrd was Minority Leader at the time.


1982 United States Senate elections, Wisconsin
Incumbent Democrat William Proxmire successfully ran for re-election to his fifth and final term, defeating Republican States Representative Scott McCallum.


1982 United States Senate elections, Wyoming
Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democratic State Senator Rodger McDaniel.


1982 United States elections
The 1982 United States elections were held on November 2, 1982. Neither chamber of Congress changed hands.


1982 United States elections
The party balance in the Senate remained practically unchanged; Democrats only gained one seat after a Democratic-leaning Independent left the Senate. Democrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 11.8 points and gained 27 seats, cementing their majority in that chamber. The House elections took place after the 1980 United States Census and the subsequent Congressional re-apportionment. In the gubernatorial elections, Democrats won a net gain of seven seats.


1982 United States elections
The Democratic election gains were largely due to President Ronald Reagan's unpopularity as a result of the deepening 1982 recession, which many voters blamed on his economic policies. The Democrats' gains put a check on Reagan's policies, as the incoming Congress (particularly the House) was significantly less open to Reagan's conservative policies. Despite the Democratic electoral gains, this election was the first time that the Republican Party had successfully defended a majority in either chamber of Congress since 1928.


1982 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 1982, in 36 states and two territories. The Democratic party had a net gain of seven seats. This election coincided with the Senate and the House elections. This was the last election in which a Republican won the gubernatorial race in Oregon.


1982 United States gubernatorial elections, Election results
A bolded state name features an article about the specific election.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état
The 1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état took place in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) on 7 November 1982. The coup, led by the little-known Colonel Gabriel Yoryan Somé and a slew of other junior officers within the military, many of them political radicals, overthrew the regime of Colonel Saye Zerbo. Zerbo had previously taken power just under two years prior to his own downfall.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Background
Upper Volta, formerly a colony of France, had gone through several coups since independence in 1960. In 1966, the single-party dictatorship of President Maurice Yaméogo had been ended by strong opposition from the powerful trade unions and the 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état, and his military successor President Sangoulé Lamizana was overthrown in the 1980 Upper Voltan coup d'état after a long period of labour unrest, famine and economic problems.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Background
After overthrowing Lamizana, Colonel Saye Zerbo re-established the full-on military rule ended by Lamizana with the 1978 presidential and parliamentary elections. Initially favoured by the trade unions and much of the political opposition, he soon made them his enemies. Establishing a junta with many radical members, the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress (which included later presidents Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, and their close friend Henri Zongo), Zerbo's leadership grew increasingly dictatorial. He re-banned all political parties, and once more made labour strikes illegal. The trade unions reacted poorly. Factional infighting soon grew within the junta, and on 12 April 1982 Thomas Sankara (secretary of state for information), Blaise Compaoré and Henri Zongo resigned from the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress. The three were subsequently arrested.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Background
Anti -Zerbo protests grew increasingly frequent, with anti-government strikes taking place in April, the trade unions demanding a return to constitutional government in May, and several prominent union and opposition leaders arrested in September.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Coup
On 7 November 1982, the progressive and radical factions within the military regime had had enough with Saye Zerbo. Among them were the "Communist Officers' Group", a clandestine movement formed by Sankara, Compaoré, Zongo and Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani. In the capital Ouagadougou, the army chief of staff Colonel Gabriel Yoryan Somé and other officers calling themselves the Council of Popular Salvation moved to depose and arrest Zerbo. Zerbo was declared a lying demagogue who had betrayed the confidence of his people.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Coup
Two days after the coup, the little-known army physician Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo was named head of state by the new junta. Somé remained chief of staff. The Council of Popular Salvation made several moves over the next few weeks, firing old high-ranking Lamizana-era military officials and legalizing the major trade unions.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Aftermath
President Ouédraogo's leadership wouldn't continue for long. He survived a 28 February 1983 coup attempt, but after arresting his newly appointed Prime Minister Thomas Sankara – and several other members of the Communist Officers' Group – he was hit by a surge in protests, followed by a military uprising led by Blaise Compaoré. On 4 August 1983 he was finally deposed in a coup organized by Compaoré, which freed Sankara and made him President. This began the "Burkinabé Revolution", a process in which Sankara and his new junta attempted to radically transform Upper Volta – soon renamed "Burkina Faso" – according to left-wing revolutionary principles.


1982 Upper Voltan coup d'état, History, Aftermath
Sankara would himself be overthrown in 1987 by his old friend Compaoré, who remained in power until the 2014 Burkinabé uprising.


1982 Urakawa earthquake
The 1982 Urakawa earthquake (Japanese: 浦河沖地震) is the 7.1 Mj earthquake that occurred in off the coast of Urakawa, Japan on 11:32 (JST), March 21, 1982. The epicenter was Coordinates: . The earthquake was the largest earthquake in the history of the region. The earthquake caused casualties and damage in Tomakomai and Sapporo. The earthquake left 167 people injured.


1982 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and Peñarol won the championship.


1982 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1982 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA). The Aggies were led by seventh-year head coach Bruce Snyder and played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. They finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses (5–6, 2–4 PCAA). This was the final season that Snyder served as head coach of the Aggies as he resigned his position on February 28, 1983, and became an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Rams.


1982 Utah Utes football team
The 1982 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. Head coach Bill Meek led the team to a 2–4 mark in the WAC and 5–6 overall.


1982 VFA season
The 1982 Victorian Football Association season was the 101st season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 22nd season of second division competition. It was the first season of a restructured two-division competition, in which automatic promotion and relegation between the divisions was abandoned.


1982 VFA season
The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Preston in the Grand Final on 19 September by seven points; it was Port Melbourne's 15th Division 1 premiership, the third of three premierships won in a row between 1980 and 1982, and the last of six premierships won in nine seasons from 1974 until 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Northcote; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership, and it was the last premiership ever won by the club.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Restructure of Division 2
In the late 1970s, the popularity and financial viability of the Association was in decline.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Restructure of Division 2
One factor contributing to this came about as a result of the promotion and relegation system which existed between the two divisions: this system, which had been in place since 1961, saw promotion for the Division 2 premiers and relegation for the Division 1 wooden-spooners at the end of each season, giving a fair opportunity for promotion and relegation based on on-field performance; but, the automatic nature of this promotion and relegation meant that no consideration was given to the off-field strength of the club, which was the most critical factor in determining a club's viability.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Restructure of Division 2
By the late 1970s, there was a growing off-field gap between the strongest and weakest clubs, and the fickle correlation between off-field strength and on-field finishing positions meant that some strong clubs were stuck in Division 2 and some weak clubs were holding their places in Division 1. This had a wide range of consequences detrimental to the Association as a whole.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Restructure of Division 2
The conclusion was that the Association would be more viable if the clubs which made up Division 1 were selected based on off-field merit and viability, rather than on-field results. A new structure, which was first proposed in September 1980 under Alex Gillon's presidency, was ratified in May 1981 under Alan Wickes' presidency by a margin of 19–4, well in excess of the three-quarters majority required. Under the new structure:


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Restructure of Division 2
The Association also encouraged a number of its weaker clubs to consider amalgamating with neighbouring clubs to improve long-term viability, although it stopped short of forcing amalgamations. As many as fourteen of the Association's twenty clubs were sent letters on the matter of amalgamation during 1981 – Prahran and Caulfield, Box Hill and Camberwell, and Oakleigh and Waverley were amongst the pairs of clubs known to have been approached – but no amalgamations resulted.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Promotion and relegation for 1982
The composition of the new Division 1 was announced on 7 September 1981, the day after the 1981 Division 2 Grand Final. Four Division 2 clubs were promoted to the expanded Division 1 in 1982:


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Promotion and relegation for 1982
The changes also helped to spread Division 1 more evenly across Melbourne: Werribee and Williamstown were the first western suburban clubs in Division 1 since 1977, and Waverley's inclusion provided more representation to the sprawling south-eastern suburbs.


1982 VFA season, Association structure, Promotion and relegation for 1982
Two other clubs who were considered for relegation but held their places were: Geelong West, who had gone through but recovered from a severe financial crisis in 1980–81; and Coburg, who, like Brunswick, was suffering from a low fanbase due to demographic shifts in its locality.


1982 VFA season, Association membership
Two new clubs joined Division 2 for the 1982 season. These were the first new admissions to the Association since Frankston joined in 1966. The new clubs were:


1982 VFA season, Association membership
Altogether, seven clubs applied to join, although the identities of the unsuccessful candidates were never formally revealed. North Ballarat, Ringwood and Greensborough were among the clubs speculated to have applied.


1982 VFA season, Association membership
The two new clubs brought the total size of the Association to twenty-two clubs, a new record. Division 1 was expanded to twelve clubs, and Division 2 remained constant at ten clubs.


1982 VFA season, Division 1
Although Division 1 expanded from ten clubs to twelve clubs, the home-and-away season continued to be played over 18 rounds, rather than being expanded to 22 rounds. This meant that not all pairs of teams played both home and away against each other. The top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the Junction Oval.


1982 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.


1982 VFA season, Notable events, Interleague matches
The Association's Division 1 and Division 2 teams each played two interleague matches during the season, including the Association's first ever matches against the Victorian Amateur Football Association. Fred Cook (Port Melbourne) captained the Division 1 team and Gary Brice (Port Melbourne) was coach; Jim Christou (Northcote) captained Division 2 against the S.A.F.A., and Russ Hodges (Kilsyth) captained Division 2 against the V.A.F.A. after Christou was unavailable through injury.


1982 VFL Grand Final
The 1982 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the   Carlton Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1982. It was the 86th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1982 VFL season. The match, attended by 107,536 spectators, was won by Carlton.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Background
The previous three premierships had been won by either Richmond or Carlton; Richmond in 1980 and Carlton in 1979 and 1981, all against Collingwood.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Background
The Tigers won eleven successive matches early in the 1982 VFL season and, after a slump as injuries took toll late on the home-and-away rounds, returned to their most devastating form in the finals. At the conclusion of the home and away season, Richmond had finished first on the VFL ladder with 18 wins and 4 losses. Carlton had finished third (behind Hawthorn), with 16 wins 5 losses and a draw.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Background
In the finals series leading up to the Grand Final, Carlton defeated Hawthorn by 58 points in the Qualifying Final before losing to Richmond by 40 points in the Second Semi-Final. Carlton advanced to the Grand Final after beating Hawthorn again, this time by 31 points in the Preliminary Final. Richmond advanced straight to the Grand Final on the back of their Second Semi-Final victory against Carlton.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Teams
Austin, considered best afield in the Preliminary final win over Hawthorn, suffered a corked thigh during an informal game of soccer the following day and his subsequent hospitalisation meant he would not play in the Grand Final. This was a bitter blow, considering he had missed out on Carlton's triumph the previous year due to osteitis pubis.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Teams
Richmond supporters were also surprised to see that Brian Taylor, who had been named in the provisional line-up on Thursday, had been replaced by emergency player Ian Sartori. Taylor was left out at the last minute when the Tigers match committee felt there was no room for both him and David Cloke in their forward line.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Teams
The umpiring panel for the match, comprising two field umpires, two boundary umpires and two goal umpires is given below.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Teams
Numbers in brackets represent the number of grand finals umpired, including 1982.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary
The two coaches adopted contrasting approaches to the pre-match routine. In the Carlton rooms, David Parkin wrote a few key points on the blackboard and made a simple promise to his players that they would win if every one of them worked hard and never stopped trying across the entire game. After his address, Parkin ran one last time the video footage of the team receiving the premiership cup and winners medals after the previous season's triumph. Meanwhile, in the Richmond rooms, Francis Bourke decided to treat the Grand final as just another game. The build-up had been deliberately kept low-key; players were told to forget about the fanfare and occasion and to instead concentrate on the game at hand and attack every contest for the ball as hard as they could.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The Blues got off to an excellent start, with fast play and direct long kicks into attack resulting in goals to Johnston and Harmes inside the opening 70 seconds. As a hailstorm swept across the ground (it would rain sporadically throughout the day), brawls between the two teams began to break out mainly around the outer wing area, resulting in Jones being reported for striking Lee by field umpire Sawers.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
As the sun reappeared a few minutes later, the Blues again went into attack through Maylin and from the resulting spillage, Blues captain Fitzpatrick was in the right position to soccer the ball barely the required distance onto the chest of the helmeted rover Ashman, who went back and slotted Carlton's third goal in six minutes, with Richmond yet to score.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
The Tigers worked their way back into the game using trademark physical aggression - Jess crashed into Hunter with a well-executed hip-and-shoulder, forcing Hunter off the ground for nearly 15 minutes and allowing his direct opponent Rioli to start influencing the game. Richmond finally opened their account when veteran Bartlett converted a free kick set shot for the first of his three goals for the game. Then Rioli kicked two goals in three minutes, the second a magnificent left-foot snap around his body from a boundary throw-in.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
In between both goals, Harmes had missed a chance to score his second when he hit the post. When Raines was awarded a free kick after Maylin was deemed to be holding the ball and goaled at the 27-minute mark, the Tigers had snatched the lead. Five minutes passed with no further score added until Carlton launched what would be the final attacking play of the quarter; Fitzpatrick kicked to the lead of full-forward Ditchburn.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter
As Ditchburn fumbled the marking attempt and went to ground, he received an accidental knee to the head from his opponent Martello and had to be helped from the field, taking no further part in the game. As the nearest Carlton player to the incident, Johnston took the free kick, and his accurate set shot put the Blues back in front shortly before the siren sounded.1st Quater finish


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
The Tigers took the lead in the opening seconds of the quarter when rover Weightman gathered the ball from a marking contest deep in the forward line and handballed cleverly to Cloke to run into an open goal. From the centre bounce, the Tigers were again driven into attack, this time by Keane. Carlton defender McConville gathered the ball but his handpass was intercepted by Weightman who again found Cloke alone in the goal square, enabling him to stroll in and kick his second.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
When Bartlett gathered the ball from a long kick by Martello and snapped his second goal on his left, Richmond had kicked three goals in four minutes to establish a 14-point lead. Harmes was moved on to Bartlett, but the bigger headache for Carlton was Rioli, whose superb midfield play was providing the Tigers forwards with constant scoring opportunities. The Blues scored against the run of play through Hunter after Bosustow, who had started on the bench, took a spectacular mark and played on immediately, finding Hunter with a well-timed handpass. But further goals to Cloke and Weightman put Richmond 18 points ahead at the 20-minute mark.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter
The Blues managed to stem the tide with Fitzpatrick now providing a target at centre half-forward, and after McConville, who had been shifted forward, scored an opportunistic goal at the 29-minute mark, the Tigers went into the main break with an 11-point lead. They had conceded momentum and also lost defender Tempany for the rest of the game due to a fractured forearm.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
The atmosphere was tense as both teams ran out to begin the second half; many in the crowd knew that this was the decisive quarter or, as made popular by Carlton coach Parkin, the "premiership quarter"; if the Tigers could extend their half-time lead in the third quarter, the premiership would almost certainly be theirs. In the four seasons leading up to the Grand Final, Carlton had won 64 of the 97 third quarters it had played.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
Richmond made their intent to physically unsettle the Blues clear when Jess again hit Hunter, this time with an extended forearm to the face. He was promptly met with an angry response from Doull and Jones. But Carlton continued to focus on attacking the ball and were rewarded with the first goal of the quarter at the 8-minute mark when Maylin picked up the ball from a Richmond clearance, cleverly evaded a tackle and kicked truly. Five minutes later, Fitzpatrick was awarded a dubious holding-the-ball free kick and converted his set shot to put the Blues one point ahead.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
Then followed the incident for which this match became famous; as the ball was being brought back for the restart of play, the crowd's attention turned to a female streaker who was naked except for a Carlton scarf around her shoulders. The streaker was later identified as 17-year-old Helen D'Amico, an American-born stripper who had been working in Adelaide, and was fined $1,000. In later years, it was suggested that D'Amico's stunt was partly responsible for stopping Richmond's momentum in this game, but Blues ruckman Warren Jones adamantly rejected this notion:


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
It threw a spanner in the works because, we were just starting to have a bit of a run-on. She came on and upset our run, it stopped our momentum, not theirs.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
After D'Amico was escorted off the ground, it took Carlton five minutes to score their next goal through Maclure, but crucially for them Richmond also failed to take advantage of the disruption. Two minutes later, Fitzpatrick added his second goal when he fortuitously marked a wonky kick into attack from Bosustow. When Ashman was in the right place to goal with a quick snap from a scrappy piece of play, the Blues had scored five goals for the quarter and turned the 11-point half-time deficit into a 17-point lead at the last change.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter
The forward pressure that Parkin had instilled as part of Carlton's game plan was now paying dividends, and Fitzpatrick had played an immense quarter at centre half-forward. The Carlton coaching panel had also wisely resisted taking Harmes off Bartlett and instead moved Johnston into the middle to take on Raines, who had been among Richmond's best players. The Carlton defence of Perovic, Doull, Bortolotto and English were superb, restricting the Tigers to six behinds for the quarter.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter
Four minutes into the last quarter, Richmond had slashed Carlton's lead to five points with goals to Bartlett and Jess. But the Blues held out to win, marking the first time since the 1915 VFL Grand Final that they had won back-to-back flags.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Carlton's premiership victory marked its third in four years, only the fifth time such an occurrence or better had occurred in League history. However, the Carlton team of his period is often neglected in discussions about the great VFL/AFL powerhouse teams, such as the Collingwood Machine that won four consecutive flags from 1927 to 1930, Norm Smith's Melbourne side which won five out of six flags from 1955 to 1960, and the Hawthorn juggernaut of the 1980s.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
In the foreword to Dan Eddy's book Larrikins & Legends, which was written to put forth a case for this Carlton team to be mentioned among the great VFL/AFL sides, premiership captain Mike Fitzpatrick commented that one reason this side was often overlooked could have been the lack of individual honours:


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
There were no Brownlows in this group in this time, no competition-leading goal kicker, no single player who dominated in all three Grand Finals. These were not teams of stars but teams of talented players who worked hard for each other. Only 'Perc' Jones and 'Bomba' Sheldon became senior League coaches and it took 'Sellers' Maclure 20 years to break into mainstream media. So without a flag bearer, these great sides have been perpetually underrated.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
In his introduction to the book, the author noted that the playing group's off-field antics could have been another reason the team was underrated:


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
... [ I]n an era before full-time professionalism, those boys were as well known for their off-field deeds as their on-field exploits. They had a Rat Pack some 25 years before Collingwood made headlines for fostering a similar group of misfits.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
Yet he concluded that the powerful ties forged through adversity, social bonding and playing for a common cause were what made this team great:


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
... [ T]he key to greatness, to longevity as a powerhouse team, is mateship. No single ingredient was more vital to Carlton's success than the players' love for each other, a unique bond that endures to this day. Sure, there was the odd conflict, some players even came to blows [...], but it was the accountability by the senior players—again, on and off the field—that not only made Jezza, Perc and Parko's jobs easier, but that also ensured no player stepped out of line. [ ...] It was all inclusive, one-in all-in, and that, above all else, was why Carlton were great. They are football's forgotten champions.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Richmond's Maurice Rioli. It was the first time that a player from the losing side had won the medal. It was also the third consecutive season that Rioli had been judged best afield in a Grand Final; he had won the West Australian Football League's equivalent medal, the Simpson Medal, in the 1980 and 1981 Grand Finals playing for South Fremantle.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
There were some Carlton supporters who felt that Wayne Johnston should have been awarded the medal instead, but neutral observers pointed out that Rioli had kept Richmond in the game with his three timely goals and bringing teammates into the game with his outstanding ball use. His statistics for the match (18 kicks, one handpass and one mark) only tell part of the story; every time he was near the ball, Richmond players and fans would get excited, while Carlton opponents would sense imminent danger, especially when he tackled them.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
By winning their 14th VFL premiership, the Blues overtook arch-rival Collingwood to become the new holder of the title of most successful VFL club. The previous team that had won successive VFL premierships was their match opponents Richmond, back in 1973 and 1974.


1982 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath
The fall-out at Richmond was swift and dramatic; by the end of the year, former club captains Raines and Cloke would be at Collingwood, sparking a bitter recruiting war between the two neighbouring arch-rivals which would plunge the Tigers into bankruptcy. Another former captain, Bryan Wood, ended up at Essendon. Francis Bourke's tough approach to fitness and discipline further alienated him from the playing group and by the end of 1983, in which Richmond crashed to 10th, he had fallen on his sword. Richmond would endure over three decades in the doldrums, punctuated by occasional finals appearances, until finally breaking their premiership drought in 2017.


1982 VFL draft
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1982 VFL draft
The 1982 Victorian Football League (VFL) draft was the second annual national draft held by the VFL, the leading Australian rules football league.


1982 VFL draft
Held on 19 October 1982, all twelve VFL clubs participated in the draft, each having two picks, with the team finishing last in the 1982 VFL season having first choice, followed by the other eleven clubs in reverse finishing position order. Wooden spooners Footscray Football Club named East Fremantle ruckman Andrew Purser as the first pick of the draft.


1982 VFL draft
The draft was limited to players aged sixteen and above in non-Victorian based competitions and tied players wishing to move to Victoria to the club that drafted them. Eleven South Australians were named, with eight Western Australians, three Tasmanians and two Queenslanders also drafted.


1982 VFL draft
The draft, introduced as an equalisation strategy in response to the increasing transfer fees and player salaries at the time, was discontinued after the 1982 Draft, following requests from Melbourne and Geelong officials to consider a moratorium on interstate transfers, aimed at allowing South and Western Australian clubs hit by the draft to recover. The draft did not reoccur until 1986 and has been held every year since.


1982 VFL season
The 1982 Victorian Football League season was the 86th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. Twelve teams competed in the league, the same since 1925. The first game was played on Saturday 20 March 1982 and concluded with the 1982 VFL Grand Final on Saturday 25 September 1982. Carlton defeating Richmond in the Grand Final to win its second consecutive premiership, and 14th overall.


1982 VFL season
The season was the first in which the VFL established a permanent interstate presence, with the South Melbourne Football Club moving all of its home games to Sydney, New South Wales, ultimately becoming known as the Sydney Swans.


1982 VFL season, Night series
The Swans defeated North Melbourne 13.12 (90) to 8.10 (58) in the final.


1982 Vahdat International Cup
Vahdat International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی وحدت) was an international football tournament hosted by Iran that was played at Tehran in February 1982. Vahdat means Unity. This tournament's participants were teams from Iran and friend countries such as Algeria, Syria and Libya.


1982 Vahdat International Cup, Results, Third Place Match
There was no third place match, however Malavan earned third rank among all participants.


1982 Vahdat International Cup, Squads, Persepolis
Persepolis squad was short of several national team and national army team players such as Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, Nasser Mohammadkhani, Abbas Kargar, Ebrahim Kian Tahmasebi, Behrouz Soltani, Mohammad Panjali and Gholamreza Fathabadi. Several players from youth team took part in this tournament.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by head coach George MacIntyre, led Vanderbilt to a bowl game for the first time since 1974. The Vanderbilt squad finished the season with a record of 8–4. 1982 was Vanderbilt’s first winning season since 1975 and would prove to be the last for 25 more years.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season
Vanderbilt was coming off of a losing season for the sixth straight year, compiling an overall record of 13–53 and only one win against 35 losses in SEC over that period. From 1976 to 1981, Vanderbilt lost 33 consecutive SEC games before defeating Ole Miss in 1981.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Season
1982 Vanderbilt was a veteran team with 19 seniors and 26 juniors, led by Whit Taylor at QB and All-American's TE Allama Matthews (1982), punter Jim Arnold (1982), Corner Back Leonard Coleman (1983), flanker/TE Chuck Scott (1983), and kicker Ricky Anderson (1984).


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Memphis
Vanderbilt started the game slow but scored 17 points in the second quarter and ending the game with 24 unanswered points before Memphis scored their final points. Whit Taylor key receiver was TE Allama Matthews for three touchdowns. Fullback Ernie Goolsby ran 21 times for 134 yards (This would be the only time in the 1982 season a Commodore player ran for over 100 yards.) Vandy only totaled 178 yards for the game. However, it was enough to win the game. Cornerback Leonard Coleman picked two interceptions, including a pick in the end zone in the third quarter to save a touchdown.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, #11 North Carolina
Vanderbilt came into Chapel Hill facing the #11 ranked North Carolina Tar Heels. Vanderbilt took a 10–3 lead into the second quarter before the Tar Heels tied it back up before half time. The Tar Heels defense was too much for Vandy and did not allow any more points from Vanderbilt. The Tar Heels scored 24 second-half points to Vandy’s 0.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, #4 Alabama
For the second game in as many weeks, Vandy played a ranked team in #4 Alabama. Vanderbilt scored first with a two-yard run from Whit Taylor. But Alabama would go on to score 24 unanswered points. But the Kurt Page to Allama Matthews combination would make it a close game, scoring 14 points in the third quarter. Vandy had one last gasp in the game, driving close to field goal range, but an intentional grounding penalty put Vandy out of range to score.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Tulane
Tulane turned the ball over three times to Vanderbilt. Vandy scored 17 points in the first half, holding off the Green Wave late charge to win the 1982 home opener, 24-21. The Green Wave outgained the Commodores by over 100 yards. However, the Vandy defense was able to make turnovers to stall the Green Wave from scoring. The Green Wave almost pulled off the win, but Vandy stopped the last-second effort to win the game.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, #14 Florida
The third time was the charm for the 1982 Vanderbilt team as they faced the third ranked team of the season in number 14-ranked Florida Gators. Watson Brown Vandy’s offensive coordinator changed the offense scheme to a one back, installing Jim Popp as a second tight end to try to derail the Florida All-American Wilber Marshall. Whit Taylor was 30 of 47 passing for 287 yards and three touchdowns, running for 64 yards.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, #4 Georgia
The game “between the hedges” would be the last game for the Commodores to lose for the regular season. Vandy had a 13–10 lead going into the fourth quarter. Terry Hoage picked off Vanderbilt QB Whit Taylor three times in the first half. The Commodores forced Georgia to turn over the ball deep in Georgia territory. Georgia held Vandy to two Ricky Anderson field goals. Georgia scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to secure a Georgia win.


1982 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
The sixth game of the year Vanderbilt was sporting a .500 record at 3 and 3. Scouts from four bowls were at the game. Ricky Anderson put Vandy ahead with two field goals, one from 49 yards. With Vandy ahead by two points (12–10), Vandy senior linebacker Joe Staley picked off a pass and returned it for forty yards to the Rebel eight. Vandy went on to score from the eight to seal the victory for Vanderbilt and start a five-game regular season winning streak.