Bad luck.

According to Electoral-Vote.com, Mark Pryor, the Democratic Governor, has not attracted any Republican challengers and - with the deadline for nominations now past - will be elected unopposed in November. Extraordinary that this should happen in a statewide contest: unopposed re-election happens in local council elections in the UK sometimes, but I can’t recall it ever happening in Parliament (other than the Speaker).

Update: OK, it looks like the most recent unopposed election not of the speaker was the 1945 election of David Logan (Lab) in the Scotland constituency of Liverpool (around Scotland Road). The most recent Tory unopposed election I could find was Duff Cooper in 1931 (for the London constituency of St. George’s Hanover Square). Any advance?

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