The 1990 Arkansas gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1990. Incumbent Democratic governor

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

won re-election in a two-way race against Democrat turned Republican

Sheffield Nelson Edward Sheffield Nelson (born April 23, 1941) is an American attorney, businessman and politician from the capital city of Little Rock, Arkansas. Originally a Democrat, Nelson in 1990 ran for governor of Arkansas as a Republican against then g ...

with 57.5% of the vote. This was Clinton's fourth consecutive, and fifth overall, term as

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, as well as his final term ( he was elected to the presidency in 1992). Nelson had defeated Representative Tommy F. Robinson for the Republican nomination.

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