Buddy MacKay - Electoral History

Electoral History

Florida Senate, 6th district (1974)

  • Buddy MacKay (D) - 26,418 (75.32%)
  • Charles E. Curtus (R) - 8,655 (24.68%)

Florida Senate, 6th district (1978)

  • Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) - elected unopposed

Florida United States Senate election, 1980 (Democratic primary)

  • Richard Stone (Inc.) - 355,287 (32.08%)
  • Bill Gunter - 335,859 (30.33%)
  • Buddy MacKay - 272,538 (24.61%)
  • Richard A. Pettigrew - 108,154 (9.77%)
  • James L. Miller - 18,118 (1.64%)
  • John B. Coffey - 17,410 (1.57%)

Florida's 6th congressional district, 1982

  • Buddy MacKay (D) - 85,825 (61.35%)
  • Ed Havill (R) - 54,059 (38.65%)

Florida's 6th congressional district, 1984

  • Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) - 167,409 (99.30%)
  • Eric Tarnley (write-in) - 1,174 (0.70%)

Florida's 6th congressional district, 1986

  • Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) - 143,598 (70.16%)
  • Larry Gallagher (R) - 61,069 (29.84%)

Florida United States Senate election, 1988 (Democratic primary)

  • Bill Gunter - 383,721 (38.00%)
  • Buddy MacKay - 263,946 (26.14%)
  • Dan Mica - 179,524 (17.78%)
  • Pat Frank - 119,277 (11.81%)
  • Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. - 51,387 (5.09%)
  • Fred Rader - 11,820 (1.17%)

Florida United States Senate election, 1988 (Democratic runoff)

  • Buddy MacKay - 369,266 (52.00%)
  • Bill Gunter - 340,918 (48.00%)

Florida United States Senate election, 1988

  • Connie Mack III (R) - 2,051,071 (50.42%)
  • Buddy MacKay (D) - 2,016,553 (49.57%)
  • Adam Straus (write-in) - 585 (0.01%)

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor, 1990

  • Buddy MacKay - 746,325 (69.49%)
  • Tom Gustafson - 327,731 (30.51%)

Florida gubernatorial election, 1990

  • Lawton Chiles/Buddy MacKay (D) - 1,995,206 (56.51%)
  • Bob Martinez/J. Allison DeFoor (R) - 1,535,068 (43.48%)

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor, 1994

  • Buddy MacKay (Inc.) - 603,657 (72.17%)
  • James H. King - 232,757 (27.83%)

Florida gubernatorial election, 1994

  • Lawton Chiles/Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) - 2,135,008 (50.75%)
  • Jeb Bush/Tom Feeney (R) - 2,071,068 (49.23%)

Florida gubernatorial election, 1998

  • Jeb Bush/Frank Brogan (R) - 2,191,105 (55.27%)
  • Buddy MacKay/Rick Dantzler (D) - 1,773,054 (44.72%)

Source: Our Campaigns - Candidate - Kenneth "Buddy" MacKay, Jr

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