2010 Arkansas gubernatorial election
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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As of 2024, this alongside several concurrent elections are 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. 2010 marked the last time that a gubernatorial nominee and a lieutenant gubernatorial nominee of different political parties were elected in Arkansas.