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AR US Senate - D Primary
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> United States > Arkansas > Senate Class II
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| Office | Senate |
| Type | Primary Election |
| Filing Deadline | January 01, 1954 - 12:00pm |
| Polls Open | July 27, 1954 - 12:00am |
| Polls Close | July 27, 1954 - 11:00pm |
| Term Start | January 03, 1955 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | January 03, 1961 - 12:00am |
| Contributor | Ben |
| Last Modified | RBH September 30, 2019 10:12pm |
| Data Sources | Elwood Call-Leader, 8/6/1954 - Chambers/Ellis. Same report gives McMath's total as 126,172
Arkansas Historical Report 2008 [Link] - McClellan/McMath |
| Description | McClellan narrowly defeated McMath in an election now recognized to have been marked by widespread fraud. For example, record numbers of black voters, for whom McMath had only five years before secured the right to vote in Democratic primaries, were trucked to the polls (usually plantation stores or gin offices) in Eastern Arkansas by McClellan supporters among the planters of that region who held their workers' poll tax receipts and recorded how they voted. McMath lost some of those precincts by better than 9 to 1 margins. |
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164,905 (50.35%)