Florida Department of State
Division of Elections
September 12, 1978 Primary Election
Official Results
Governor & Cabinet
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor | ||||||||||
| Leroy Eden / Maria Kay | Bob Graham / Wayne Mixson | Claude R. Kirk, Jr. / Mary L. Singleton | Robert L. Shevin / Jim Glisson | Bruce A. Smathers / Charles W. Boyd | Hans G. Tanzler / Manuel Arques | Jim Williams / Betty Castor | Jack Eckerd / Paula Hawkins | Lou Frey, Jr. / S. Peter Capua | ||
| Total | 27,728 | 523,944 | 125,068 | 729,464 | 170,596 | 249,412 | 248,854 | 488,788 | 276,874 | |
| % Votes | 1.0% | 18.4% | 4.4% | 25.7% | 6.0% | 8.8% | 8.8% | 17.2% | 9.7% | |
| Secretary of State | ||||||
| Beverly F. Dozier | Jim Fair | George Firestone | Joe Little | Richard "Dick" Renick | ||
| Total | 224,990 | 81,389 | 253,395 | 103,275 | 221,022 | |
| % Votes | 25.4% | 9.2% | 28.7% | 11.7% | 25.0% | |
| Attorney General | ||||
| Alan Becker | Barry Richard | Jim Smith | ||
| Total | 232,416 | 231,518 | 407,579 | |
| % Votes | 26.7% | 26.6% | 46.8% | |
| Comptroller | |||
| Don Dansby | Gerald (Jerry) Lewis | ||
| Total | 159,238 | 691,583 | |
| % Votes | 18.7% | 81.3% | |
| Treasurer | |||
| Bill Gunter | Don Hazelton | ||
| Total | 735,523 | 182,907 | |
| % Votes | 80.1% | 19.9% | |
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor | ||||||||||
| Leroy Eden / Maria Kay | Bob Graham / Wayne Mixson | Claude R. Kirk, Jr. / Mary L. Singleton | Robert L. Shevin / Jim Glisson | Bruce A. Smathers / Charles W. Boyd | Hans G. Tanzler / Manuel Arques | Jim Williams / Betty Castor | Jack Eckerd / Paula Hawkins | Lou Frey, Jr. / S. Peter Capua | ||
| Total | 27,728 | 523,944 | 125,068 | 729,464 | 170,596 | 249,412 | 248,854 | 488,788 | 276,874 | |
| % Votes | 1.0% | 18.4% | 4.4% | 25.7% | 6.0% | 8.8% | 8.8% | 17.2% | 9.7% | |