2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election

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2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election
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Nominee Mike Beebe Jim Keet
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote503,336262,784
Percentage64.42%33.63%

2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
2010 Arkansas Gubernatorial election results map by congressional District.svg
Beebe:      50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%

Governor before election

Mike Beebe
Democratic

Elected Governor

Mike Beebe
Democratic

The 2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Governor Mike Beebe ran for re-election, and faced former State Senator Jim Keet, whom he defeated in a landslide to win a second and final term as governor, despite the year being a Republican midterm wave year and Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln being unseated by a 21-point margin on the same ballot. Beebe's vote percentage and margin of victory was the highest of any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the country that year.

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To date, this alongside several concurrent elections are the last time that Democrats won a statewide election in Arkansas and the last time a candidate of either party carried every county in a contested election. This election is also the last time last time that a gubernatorial nominee and a lieutenant gubernatorial nominee of different political parties were elected in Arkansas.

Candidates

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Green Party

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Cook Political Report [1] Safe DOctober 14, 2010
Rothenberg [2] Safe DOctober 28, 2010
RealClearPolitics [3] Likely DNovember 1, 2010
Sabato's Crystal Ball [4] Likely DOctober 28, 2010
CQ Politics [5] Safe DOctober 28, 2010

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Mike
Beebe (D)
Jim
Keet (R)
Rasmussen Reports October 28, 201060%38%
CNN/Time Magazine October 15–19, 201062%35%
Rasmussen Reports September 30, 201051%41%
Mason-Dixon September 12–14, 201054%33%
Rasmussen Reports August 18, 201053%33%
Rasmussen Reports July 20, 201050%40%
Ipsos/Reuters July 16–18, 201057%35%
Talk Business July 17, 201050%41%
Rasmussen Reports June 15, 201057%33%
Rasmussen Reports May 19, 201053%38%

Results

Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2010 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Mike Beebe (incumbent) 503,336 64.42% +8.81%
Republican Jim Keet 262,78433.63%−7.03%
Green Jim Lendall 14,5131.86%+0.21%
Write-in 7000.09%N/A
Total votes781,333 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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