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The 1964 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1964.
Incumbent Democratic Governor Orval Faubus won election to a sixth term, defeating Republican nominee Winthrop Rockefeller with 57.00% of the vote.
Primary elections were held on July 28, 1964.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Orval Faubus (incumbent) | 239.890 | 65.72 | |
| Democratic | Ervin Odell Dorsey | 69,638 | 19.08 | |
| Democratic | Joe Hubbard | 39,199 | 10.74 | |
| Democratic | R. D. Burrow | 16,310 | 4.47 | |
| Total votes | 365,037 | 100.00 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Winthrop Rockefeller | unopposed | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Orval Faubus (incumbent) | 337,489 | 57.00% | −16.27% | |
| Republican | Winthrop Rockefeller | 254,561 | 42.99% | +16.26% | |
| Write-in | Kenneth Hurst | 63 | 0.01% | ||
| Majority | 82,928 | 14.01% | |||
| Turnout | 592,113 | 100.00% | |||
| Democratic hold | Swing | ||||
| County | Orval Faubus Democratic | Winthrop Rockefeller Republican | Kenneth Hurst Write-in | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Benton | 5,747 | 44.77% | 7,090 | 55.23% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,343 | -10.54% | 12,837 |
| Crawford | 4,409 | 59.66% | 2,981 | 40.34% | 0 | 0.0% | 1,472 | 19.32% | 7,490 |
| Franklin | 3,202 | 64.58% | 1,756 | 35.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,446 | 29.16% | 4,958 |
| Johnson | 3,109 | 62.44% | 1,870 | 37.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,339 | 24.88% | 4,979 |
| Logan | 3,404 | 56.64% | 2,606 | 43.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 798 | 13.28% | 6,010 |
| Madison | 3,155 | 63.67% | 1,800 | 36.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,355 | 27.34% | 4,955 |
| Newton | 1,555 | 51.97% | 1,437 | 48.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 118 | 3.94% | 2,992 |
| Scott | 1,689 | 54.61% | 1,404 | 45.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 285 | 9.22% | 3,093 |
| Sebastian | 11,644 | 48.03% | 12,599 | 51.97% | 0 | 0.00% | -955 | -3.94% | 24,243 |
| Washington | 8,741 | 44.27% | 11,002 | 55.73% | 0 | 0.00% | -2,261 | -11.46% | 19,743 |
| Totals | 337,489 | 57.00% | 254,561 | 42.99% | 63 | 0.01% | 82,928 | 14.01% | 592,113 |
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.
Winthrop Rockefeller was an American politician and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fourth son and fifth child of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He was one of the grandchildren of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. As an entrepreneur in Arkansas, he financed many local projects, including a number of new medical clinics in poorer areas, before being elected state governor in 1966, as the first Republican governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. Despite accusations of lacking insight into the concerns of low-income voters, Rockefeller was re-elected in 1968, and went on to complete the integration of Arkansas schools.
Joe Edward Purcell was an American politician and attorney who served as Acting Governor of Arkansas for six days in 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 45th Attorney General of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971 and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1981.
The 1966 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1966. Winthrop Rockefeller was elected governor of Arkansas, becoming the first Republican to be elected to the office since Reconstruction in 1872.
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 1962 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1962.
The 1960 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1960.
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 1950 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1950.
The 1946 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1946.
The 1926 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on October 5, 1926.
