Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2006

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Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2006
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  2002 November 7, 2006 2010  

  MikeBeebe2009 (cropped).jpg Asa Hutchinson 2006 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Mike Beebe Asa Hutchinson
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote430,765315,040
Percentage55.6%40.7%

Arkansas Gubernatorial Election Results by County, 2006.svg
Election results by county
Beebe:      40-50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%
Hutchinson:      40–50%     50–60%

Governor before election

Mike Huckabee
Republican

Elected Governor

Mike Beebe
Democratic

The 2006 Arkansas gubernatorial election took place on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Incumbent Governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, was unable to seek another term due to term limits. Mike Beebe, the Attorney General of Arkansas and the Democratic nominee, defeated Asa Hutchinson, a former United States Congressman and the Republican nominee, by a wide margin. Hutchinson won the governorship eight years later.

Arkansas State of the United States of America

Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.

Mike Huckabee Arkansas politician

Michael Dale Huckabee is an American politician and Christian minister who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate United States Republican presidential primaries in both 2008 and 2016.

Republican Party (United States) political party in the United States

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

Contents

Candidates

Hutchinson campaigning for governor in 2006 Asa Hutchinson campaigning.jpg
Hutchinson campaigning for governor in 2006

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Asa Hutchinson 46th Governor of Arkansas

William Asa Hutchinson II is an American businessman, attorney, and politician, serving as the 46th Governor of Arkansas since 2015. Previously he was U.S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U.S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the first Undersecretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Drug Enforcement Administration United States federal law enforcement agency

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and distribution within the United States. The DEA is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It has sole responsibility for coordinating and pursuing US drug investigations both domestic and abroad.

Arkansass 3rd congressional district

Arkansas's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The district covers Northwest Arkansas and takes in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Springdale and Fort Smith.

Green Party

Independent

Rod Bryan is a musician and multimedia producer. He is a founding member and bass player in the band Ho-Hum. In 2001, he opened Anthro-Pop, an influential, independent record store in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2006 he gathered 10,000 signatures in the months of March and April to become the first independent candidate on the ballot for governor of Arkansas in over 60 years. After Bryan gained ballot access, the Green Party and Libertarian Party also successfully sued for ballot access. The campaign was the subject of the documentary film 40 Miles Below Hope, directed by Huixia Lu. Bryan is a founding member of the Magic Cropdusters and has also performed as Western Meds, First Baptist Chemical, Baseline and Chicot, Match Head, Cavebeast, and Brownsbee. Rod released two solo albums in 2013 in response to the Exxon-Mobil pipeline rupture near Mayflower, Arkansas. He also toured and wrote extensively about his efforts to document and appropriately remediate effects of the spill.

Ho-Hum is a pop/rock band based in Bradley, Arkansas, United States, formed by the brothers Lenny and Rod Bryan.

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Asa
Hutchinson (R)
Mike
Beebe (D)
OtherUndecided
SurveyUSA November 3–5, 2006549± 4.3%42%51%4%3%
SurveyUSA October 22–24, 2006572± 4.1%38%58%3%1%
SurveyUSA September 25–26, 2006493± 4.5%40%55%3%2%
SurveyUSA August 27–29, 2006538± 4.3%38%51%0%7%
SurveyUSA July 14–16, 2006509± 4.4%38%48%13%
SurveyUSA January 22–23, 2006506± 4.4%45%46%4%5%
SurveyUSA December 3–5, 2005684± 3.8%44%49%4%3%

Results

Mike Beebe is inaugurated as governor of Arkansas. Beebe inauguration.jpg
Mike Beebe is inaugurated as governor of Arkansas.
Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2006 [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Democratic Mike Beebe 430,765 55.61% +8.65%
Republican Asa Hutchinson 315,04040.67%-12.35%
Independent Rod Bryan 15,7672.04%
Green Jim Lendall 12,7741.65%
Write-ins3340.04%
Majority115,72514.94%+8.88%
Turnout 774,680
Democratic gain from Republican Swing

See also

U.S. gubernatorial elections, 2006

Official campaign website (Archived)

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References

  1. "Voices of Arkansas: A Report on Voting Trends in the Natural State" (PDF). Arkansas Secretary of State. Retrieved June 27, 2014.