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The 1960 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960.
Incumbent Democratic Governor Orval Faubus won election to a fourth term, defeating Republican nominee Henry M. Britt with 69.21% of the vote.
That year, Faubus simultaneously ran for president under the white supremacist National States' Rights Party.
Primary elections were held on July 26, 1960. By winning over 50% of the vote, Faubus avoided a run-off which would have been held on August 9, 1960. [1]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Orval Faubus (incumbent) | 238,997 | 58.75 | |
| Democratic | Joe C. Hardin | 66,499 | 16.35 | |
| Democratic | Bruce Bennett | 58,400 | 14.36 | |
| Democratic | H. E. Williams | 33,374 | 8.20 | |
| Democratic | Hal Millsap | 9,547 | 2.35 | |
| Total votes | 406,817 | 100.00 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Henry M. Britt | unopposed | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Orval Faubus (incumbent) | 292,064 | 69.21% | −13.26% | |
| Republican | Henry M. Britt | 129,921 | 30.79% | +13.26% | |
| Majority | 162,143 | 38.42% | |||
| Turnout | 421,985 | 100.00% | |||
| Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967, as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1957, he refused to comply with a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School. This event became known as the Little Rock Crisis. He was elected to six two-year terms as governor.
James Ray Caldwell, known as Jim R. Caldwell, is a retired Church of Christ minister in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was a Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate from 1969 to 1978, the first member of his party to sit in the legislative upper chamber in the 20th century. His first two years as a senator corresponded with the second two-year term of Winthrop Rockefeller, the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. Caldwell was closely allied with Rockefeller during the 1969-1970 legislative sessions.
William Leach Spicer was a businessman from Fort Smith, Arkansas, who from 1962 to 1964 was the embattled state chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party.
Marion Harland Crank was an American Democratic politician from Foreman in Little River County in the U.S. state of Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1951 to 1968. He was the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1963 to 1964 and his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1968, but he was narrowly defeated by the incumbent Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.
The 1958 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1958.
The 1970 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970.
The 1976 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 2, Incumbent Democratic governor David Pryor defeated Republican candidate Leon Griffith with 83.24% of the vote.
The 1974 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974.
The 1972 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972.
The 1964 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1964.
The 1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1962.
The 1956 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1956.
The 1954 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1954.
The 1952 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1952.
The 1948 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1948.
The 1946 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946.
The 1942 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1942. Incumbent Democratic Governor Homer Martin Adkins was re-elected to a second term in office.
The 1940 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940.
The 1894 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 3, 1894.
The 1926 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1926.
