In Tuesday’s Preferential Primary and Nonpartisan General Election, Mountain Home attorney Johnnie Copeland lost her bid to unseat Judge Bart Virden for the Court of Appeals Judge, District 2, Position 1 seat.
Virden won the race by just under 3,300 votes, ending up with 53 percent of the vote while Copeland had 47 percent. Copeland carried 11 of the 18 counties that make up District 2, but Virden, who is from Morrilton, did very well close to home, winning the more populous counties of Faulkner, Conway and Pope along with Independence County.
The race featured a politcal group from Washington D.C. buying TV commercials against Virden.
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