1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election
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The 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election, held on November 7, was the first time that future president Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas.
Democratic primary
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Candidates
- Bill Clinton, Attorney General
- Frank Lady II, former state representative and candidate for governor in 1976
- Randall Mathis, Clark County Judge
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- Joe Woodward, Seventh Circuit Prosecuting Attorney
Results
Clinton, a former assistant to U.S. senator J. William Fulbright and since 1977 the state attorney general, won the nomination easily.
Template:Election box winning candidate with party link no changeTemplate:Election box total no change| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Joe Woodward | Script error: No such module "string". | 21.59 | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Frank Lady II | Script error: No such module "string". | 13.27 | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Randall Mathis | Script error: No such module "string". | 4.56 | |
| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Monroe Schwarzlose | Script error: No such module "string". | 1.03 | |
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Republican nomination
A. Lynn Lowe, a Texarkana farmer, who served as state Republican Party chairman from 1974 to 1980, was unopposed for the 1978 gubernatorial nomination. He had also been the Republican nominee for Arkansas's 4th congressional district seat in 1966.
Election result
Clinton easily won the general election.[2]
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| Script error: No such module "Political party". | Lynn Lowe | Script error: No such module "string". | 36.64 | ||
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Clinton also led in fundraising. His campaign budget was a combined $709,234.00 while Lynn's was $171,382.[2]
Clinton, at the age of thirty-two, became the youngest man to be elected Arkansas governor, the youngest governor in the United States since Harold E. Stassen won in Minnesota in 1938 at the age of thirty-one, and the youngest governor in the nation at this time. In 1992 he was elected as the third-youngest U.S. president in history.
Lowe's total was the highest for a Republican nominee in Arkansas since Winthrop Rockefeller's third term bid in 1970. He carried fourteen out of seventy-five counties, including Miller, Columbia, and Union counties in South Arkansas.
References
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