Johnny DuPree

Johnny DuPree
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Candidate for
Governor of Mississippi
Party	Democratic
Prior offices
Mayor of Hattiesburg
2001 - Present
Websites
Campaign website

Johnny DuPree is the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and was a Democratic candidate for Governor of Mississippi in the 2011 elections. He finished first in the primary election, but fell short of the requisite 50% plus one needed to secure the party nomination. In a primary runoff election held August 23, 2011, he defeated Clarksdale attorney Bill Luckett, Jr. to win the party nomination. DuPree was defeated in the general election by then-lieutenant governor Phil Bryant.

Biography

DuPree was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, and moved to Mississippi as a young child. His parents separated, and at eight years old, he worked as a newspaper carrier to help support his family. He later went on to work at Sears & Roebuck for fifteen years before starting his own company, DuPree Realty, with his wife.

Political experience

DuPree was first appointed to the Hattiesburg Public School Board in 1987. In 1991, he was elected to the Forrest County Board of Supervisors, where he served for ten years up until his election as Mayor of Hattiesburg in 2001.

Issues

DuPree highlights the following issues on his website:

• Education
• Economic development and job creation
• Budgeting priorities
• Medicaid
• Corrections reform

Elections

2011

General

The general election was held on November 8, 2011. DuPree was defeated by Phil Bryant.

Governor of Mississippi, 2011
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Phil Bryant	61%	544,851
	Democratic	Johnny DuPree	39%	348,617
Total Votes				893,468

Primary

DuPree finished first in the primary election, capturing 43.5% of the vote.

Gubernatorial Democratic Primary election
Party		Candidate	Vote Percentage
	Democratic Party	William Bond Compton, Jr.	9.8%
	Democratic Party	aJohnny DuPree	43.5%
	Democratic Party	aBill Luckett, Jr.	39.2%
	Democratic Party	Guy Dale Shaw	7.3%
Total Votes			412,530

In Mississippi, a majority of the primary vote is required in order to advance to the general election. Because neither DuPree nor Luckett, Jr. won a clear majority, the two will faced off in a primary runoff on August 23. Dupree won that contest, and with that win earned the Democratic seat on the ballot in November.

Primary runoff

Because DuPree fell short of the requisite 50% plus one needed to secure the party nomination, he and Clarksdale attorney Bill Luckett, Jr. faced off in a run-off primary election on August 23, 2011. With roughly 55% of the vote, DuPree defeated Luckett and became Mississippi's first black gubernatorial candidate in the state's history.

Governor - Democratic primary runoff results (Unofficial)
Party		Candidate	Vote Percentage
	Democratic Party	aJohnny DuPree	55%
	Democratic Party	Bill Luckett, Jr.	45%
Total Votes			309,728

Personal

DuPree and his wife, Johniece, have two daughters and one grandchild.

See also

2011 State Executive elections

Kentucky • Louisiana Mississippi • West Virginia

Gubernatorial • Lt. Governor Attorney General • Secretary of State Down ballot offices: (KY, LA, MS)

News • Calendar

• Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2011
• Mississippi lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2011
• Gubernatorial elections, 2011
• Governor of Mississippi
• Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

External links

Suggest a link

• JohnnyDuPree.com