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      Nov. 8, 2011 Governor

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+Phil Bryant (R)
544,851
 		60.98%
Johnny DuPree (D)
348,617
 		39.02%

893,468
Plurality: 196,234 votes (21.96 percentage points).
 MS Secretary of State


Notes: Gov. Haley Barbour (R) was term-limited.  Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant (R) defeated Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree (D) by a wide margin to keep the seat in the Republican column. 

Five candidates competed in the Aug. 2 Republican primary.  Bryant won with 59.46% of the vote (172,300 of 289,788 votes tallied); his nearest competitor was Dave Dennis, a contractor from Gulfport, at 25.72%. 

Four candidates were on the Democratic primary ballot.  Top candidates were DuPree and Bill Luckett (>).  DuPree was elected Mayor of Hattiesburg in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 and 2009; he previously served ten years on the Forrest County Board of Supervisors.  Bill Luckett was an attorney and owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in the Delta town of Clarksdale.  In the Aug. 2 primary DuPree finished ahead of Luckett by 179,748 votes (43.57%) to 161,833 (39.23%) of 412,530 votes tallied.  In the Aug. 23 runoff, DuPree defeated Luckett by 177,767 votes (54.99%) to 145,517 (45.01%) of 323,284 votes tallied.  DuPree became the first major party African-American nominee for governor in Mississippi since Reconstruction.

Additionally, Will Oatis, a veteran from Silver Creek, announced an independent candidacy on June 12, but dropped out in September.
 
During the primary, seven candidates participated in a gubernatorial debate hosted by Mississippi College School of Law on July 21.  In the general election, Bryant and DuPree engaged in one debate, on Oct. 14 sponsored by AARP Mississippi and televised by WLBT-TV3 from the MC Law auditorium.

 

Campaign Managers:
Phil Bryant:  Kirk Sims
 Policy director to Lt. Gov. Bryant.  Worked for Stratacomm, a strategic communications and public affairs company in Washington, DC.  Campaign manager on U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker's 2006 re-election.  B.A. in English language and literature from University of Mississippi, 2006.
 
Johnny DuPree:  Sam Hall
A founding partner (Jan. 2008) of Blue Dot Group.  Executive director of the Mississippi Democratic Party, Apr. 2009-July 2010.  Vice President and publisher of The Demopolis Times, 2006-08.  Editor and publisher at The Scott County Times, 2003-06.  Editor and publisher at The Times-Post, 2002-03.  Managing editor at the Natchez Democrat, 2001-02.  News editor at The Rankin Record, 1998-2001.  B.S. in political science from Milsaps College, 1998.



See also:
Kathy Lohr.  "Win or Lose, DuPree Makes History In Mississippi."  NPR, Nov. 7, 2011

--.  "Johnny DuPree wins historic Miss. nomination"  AP, Aug. 24, 2011.

 
















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