1938 United States Senate election in Arkansas

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1938 U.S. Senate election in Arkansas
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  1932 November 8, 1938 1944  
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Nominee Hattie Caraway C. D. Atkinson
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote122,88314,290
Percentage89.58%10.42%

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County results
Caraway:      50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%

U.S. senator before election

Hattie Caraway
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Hattie Caraway
Democratic

The 1938 United States Senate election in Arkansas took place on November 8, 1938. Incumbent Senator Hattie Caraway ran for a second term in office. After narrowly defeating U.S. Representative John Little McClellan in the Democratic primary, she easily won the general election over Republican C.D. Atkinson.

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Caraway, already the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, became the first woman elected to a second term in office.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Primary results by county

Carraway
40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
McClellan
40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%
Venable:
30-40% 1938 United States Senate Primary election in Arkansas results map by county.svg
Primary results by county
Carraway
  •      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
McClellan
  •      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70-80%
Venable:
  •      30–40%
1938 Democratic U.S. Senate primary [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Hattie Caraway (incumbent) 145,472 51.04%
Democratic John L. McClellan 134,70847.27%
Democratic J. Rosser Venable4,8131.69%
Total votes284,993 100.00%

General election

Results

1938 U.S. Senate election in Arkansas [1] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Hattie Caraway (incumbent) 122,883 89.58%
Republican C. D. Atkinson14,29010.42%
Total votes137,173 100.00%

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin (2018). "Historical Report of the Secretary of State" (PDF). p. 362.
  2. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives (1939). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1938" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.