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Collins polled 152,469 votes (58 percent) in the low-turnout primary to Mengden's 91,780 (34.9 percent). A third contender, computer executive Don L. Richardson, received the remaining 7.1 percent of the vote. Collins was then handily defeated by Bentsen. The year 1982 remains the most recent in Texas political history in which Democrats carried all statewide offices on the ballot.

Collins polled 152,469 votes (58 percent) in the low-turnout primary to Mengden's 91,780 (34.9 percent). A third contender, computer executive Don L. Richardson, received the remaining 7.1 percent of the vote. Collins was then handily defeated by Bentsen. The year 1982 remains the most recent in Texas political history in which Democrats carried all statewide offices on the ballot.

The Mengdens resided in their later years in Lakeway in Travis County, outside Austin. Mengden died at the age of ninety-one. He is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Upon her death, Mrs. Mengden, the former June Shell (born 1930) will be interred beside him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=9713|title=June Shell Mengden|publisher=cemetery.state.tx.us|accessdate=September 10, 2011}}</ref> ​

The Mengdens resided in their later years in Lakeway in Travis County, outside Austin. Mengden died at the age of ninety-one. He is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Upon her death, Mrs. Mengden will be interred beside her husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=9713|title=June Shell Mengden|publisher=cemetery.state.tx.us|accessdate=September 10, 2011}}</ref> ​

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