European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 5, 1992 election 92 the stars and stripes Page 9 Grich s opponents across the country. Voters also approved a state lottery with proceeds earmarked to supplement education for preschool financial Aid scholarships and capital improvements. Republicans won two other House seats and were leading in a close race for a fourth. Georgia has never had More than two gop congressmen at any one time this Century. Three Blacks won election to Congress including Cynthia Mckinney the first Black woman Ever to win a congressional seat from Georgia. Only two Blacks have served the state in Congress since reconstruction. Prior to tuesdays election democrats held nine of the states 10 congressional seats. Kentucky democratic sen. Wendell h. Ford breezed past a Little known Republican state senator who had hoped to capitalize on anti incumbent fever and on Fords vote against the persian Gulf War. Ford a democratic whip in the . Senate won a fourth term gaining 833,002 votes or 64 percent to state sen. David Williams 475,874 votes or 36 percent. Bill Linton captured the states eight electoral votes in a fair tighter race. Doing his part former Federal judge Alyce Hastings arrives to cast his ballot in impeached him in 1989. Hastings was appointed a Federal judge Miramar Fla. He won election to the House the institution that by president Carter in 1979. T 4 with 100 precincts reporting Clinton had 662,587 votes or 45 percent to president Bush a 614,840 votes or 41 percent and Ford Ross Perot a 203,261 votes or 14 percent. The state will Send two newcomers to Congress democrats Tom Barlow and Scotty Baesler. Democrats will dominate Kentucky a House delegation with four seats to the republicans two. Democrats had held a 4-3 majority but the state lost one seat to reapportionment. Voters narrowly approved an amendment to the Century old state Constitution to allow the governor and other statewide officers to seek successive terms. Also approved was a measure legalizing Bingo for charitable organizations. An amendment was Defeated to eliminate the offices of state treasurer commissioner of agriculture and superintendent of Public instruction. Unharmed politically by a National Gay magazines Story said that he is a closet homosexual who opposes Gay issues in Congress. Mccrery called the a a trashy  democratic sen. John b. Breaux and most House incumbents were re elected in the states open primary last month. The outgoing House delegation consisted of four democrats and four republicans. Bush had 1,122,608 votes or 44 percent while Bill Clinton had 1,103,716 votes or 43 percent. Ross Perot had 353,845 votes 14 Tennessee allegation or 14 percent. Sen. Al Gore whose own Campaign for president fizzled in 1988, helped Bill Clinton put Tennessee into the democratic column for Only the third time in 40 years. Gores name near the top of the ballot was the big draw in Tennessee selection. Clinton and Gore won 933,071 votes or 47 percent to 840,443 votes or 43 percent for president Bush and 199,525 votes or 10 percent for Ross Perot in nearly Complete returns tuesday. All nine incumbent congressmen a three republicans and six democrats a were re elected and the state legislature kept its democratic majority. Gore sen. Jim Sasser and gov. Ned Ray Mcwhorter weren to facing re election and the nine incumbent congressmen had been favored to win. Since Harry Truman a missourian carried Tennessee in 1948, Only two other democrats a Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter both southerners a had won the state once part of a solidly democratic South. Gores election As vice president leaves vacant the Senate seat he has held since 1984, Mcwherter will appoint a successor who will serve until a special election in 1994. In for a a Mississippi Louisiana Louisiana gave its nine electoral votes to Bill Linton. Two congressmen were Defeated in face offs caused by reapportionment. It was the fourth time since 1944 that the state has supported a Democrat for president. It voted for Adlai Stevenson in 1952, John f. Kennedy in 1960 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. With All precincts in Clinton had 815,530 votes or 46 percent to 731,619, or 42 percent for president Bush and 210,703, or 12 percent for Ross Perot. Three term con Holloway Serva Tive Republican rep Richard h. Baker of Baton Rouge beat fellow gop rep Clyde Holloway of Forest Hill the two were thrown into a re apportioned 6th District that includes the Central area of the state Down to Baton Rouge since they differed Little on the issues the Campaign focused on bakery a Contention that Holloway should not have borrowed Money from a Federal disaster loan program for his farm Holloway said the Loans were Legal and that he was no different from any other Fanner financially crippled by Winter freezes. In a race brought about by reapportionment two term Republican Jim Mccrery swept past Democrat Jerry Huckaby the eight term Dean of the delegation who suffered from the House banking scandal. Mccrery apparently was president Bush captured the states seven electoral votes in a state that has supported a Democrat for president Only once since the 1940s, but the states five democratic congressmen All were re elected. Bush won 479,552 votes or 50 percent in Complete returns. Bill Clinton won 391,461 votes or 41 percent and Ross Perot had 83,728, or 9 percent. Rep. Jamie Whitten a Whiten Democrat who was elected to Congress a month before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor won re election even though he is 82 and ailing. He Defeated Republican Clyde Whitaker the former mayor of Tupelo. Rep. Mike Espy Mississippi a first Black congressman since reconstruction also was re elected and 41 Blacks were elected to the state legislature a gain of 16. Espy has been mentioned As a possible Clinton Cabinet member. Voters also lifted a 102-year-old ban on lotteries the last democratic presidential candidate to capture Mississippi a seven electoral votes was Jimmy Carter in 1976, rep Gene Taylor a Democrat won his congressional race against Republican Paul Harvey and Independent Shawn of Hara. North Carolina president Bush followed tradition by taking the states 14 electoral votes. Republican Lauch Faircloth a prot�g6 of gop sen. Jesse Helms Defeated democratic sen. Terry Sanford. Democrat James Hunt regained the governorship by beating Republican it. Gov. James c. Gardner. Hunt served As governor from 1976 to 1984 and was the first governor elected to two consecutive four year terms in the state. With 99 percent of precincts reporting with 99 percent of precincts reporting Faircloth had 1,276,831 votes or 52 percent to 1,176,939 votes or 48 percent for Sanford. Sanford blamed his loss on negative campaigning and heart surgery three Weels ago that kept him from doing much Active campaigning. Eva Gayton and fellow Democrat Melvin Watt became the first Blacks elected to Congress from North Carolina in this Century. With 98 percent of the precincts reporting Clayton had 68 percent of the vote to Republican Ted Tyler a 32 percent. Watt with 96 percent of the precincts reporting had 72 percent of the vote to Republican Barbara Washington a 28 percent. With 99 percent of precincts reporting Hunt had 1,352,637 votes or 53 percent to 1,108,549, or 43 percent for Gardner. New state auditor Ralph Campbell became the first Black Ever to win a statewide office. South Carolina democratic sen. Ernest f. Hollings narrowly won a fifth full term and Democrat James Clyburn became South Carolina s first Black congressman in a Century. Rep. Liz Patterson a Democrat was upset by Republican Bob Inglis in her upstate race. Four other incumbent congressmen were re elected. President Bush captured the states eight electoral votes. With returns nearly Complete Bush won 569,065 votes or 48 percent to Bill Clinton a 474,052 votes or 40 percent. Ross Perot won 137,022 votes or 12 percent. Hollings 70, a former governor first elected to the Senate in 1966, survived a Strong Challenge from former rep Tommy Hartnett. Hollings had Hollings 582,410 votes or 52 percent to Hartnette a 546,407, or 48 percent in nearly Complete returns. Clyburn beat Republican John Chase in the newly drawn 6th District in the Eastern part of the state to become the first Black since 1897 to represent South Carolina in Congress. About 58 percent of the districts population is Black. Virginia virginians broke two political barriers electing the states first Black congressman in a Century and its first congresswoman Ever. But president Bush continued one political tradition keeping the states 13 electoral votes for the republicans. With almost All precincts in Bush had 1,122,046 votes or 45 percent to 1,007,757, or 41 percent for Bill Clinton and 339,197, or 14 percent for Ross Perot Black democratic state sen Robert c. Scott Defeated a Black Republican in the 3rd congressional District which stretches from Richmond to Norfolk and was designed to maximize the Black vote. The states last Black congressman John Mercer Langston served in 1891. In the 11th District a new seat in Northern Virginia Democrat Leslie Byrne Defeated Republican Henry Butler to become the states first congresswoman. Three years ago Virginia gave the nation its first Black elected governor Democrat l. Douglas Wilder