Gov. Bumpers Is Victor (Published 1972)
- ️Wed Nov 08 1972
Nov. 8, 1972
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 7 (AP)—Gov. Dale L. Bumpers, a Democrat won re‐election tonight, while President Nixon defeated Senator George McGovern, becoming the first Republican Presidential candidate since Reconstruction to take the state's six electoral votes.
Governor Bumpers easily defeated his Republican opponent, Len E. Blaylock, for a second term.
With 18% of 3,031 precincts reporting, the tally was:
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In the race for the United States Senate, the veteran Democrat, John L. McClellan, running for a sixth term, defeated the Republican candidate, Wayne H. Babbitt. Another incumbent, Representative John P. Hanunerschmidt, a Republican, led his Democratic opponent, Guy Hatfield, who is a retired actor.
Mr. Nixon showed strength in all sections of the state, which broke out of the Democratic column for the first time in 1968 by giving most of its votes to the third‐party candidate, George C. Wallace.