Betty Overbey (born January 9, 1946) is an American politician and a Democratic former member of the

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for District 69 from January 2011 to January 2017. Overbey's husband,

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, held the seat from 2005 until 2011. The district encompasses

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and

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in northwestern

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Elections

*2010 When District 69 Representative George Overbey left the legislature, Mrs. Overbey placed first in the three-way Democratic

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held on May 18. She polled 2,218 votes (46.2 percent). She then won the June 8

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with 1,812 votes (50.4 percent) and was unopposed in the 2010 general election. *2012 Overbey was unopposed for the May 22, 2012 Democratic primary and won the November 6, 2012 general election with 4,770 votes (50.8 percent) against Republican nominee Dwight Hoyle, who in 2010 had been a Democratic primary candidate and Overbey's runoff opponent. *2016 Overbey was unseated in the

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held on November 8, 2016, by the young Republican Aaron Pilkington, a health care administrator from Clarksville in Johnson County.

References

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Betty Overbey
at the National Institute on Money in State Politics Place of birth missing (living people) 1946 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Arkansas General Assembly People from Johnson County, Arkansas Women state legislators in Arkansas 21st-century American women politicians {{Arkansas-politician-stub