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Remmel not only defeated Wassel: he won by a landslide, 7,794 votes (68 percent) to 3,668 (32 percent). He won all but three of the city's then twenty-six precincts. He was the first Republican to have sought the position in a quarter century. Then Democratic Governor Sidney Sanders McMath attributed Remmel's victory to local factors, particularly a divisive Democratic primary between Massell and Alderman Franklin E. Loy (February 10, 1915 – February 6, 1999), also an insurance agent.[12]  

Remmel not only defeated Wassel: he won by a landslide, 7,794 votes (68 percent) to 3,668 (32 percent). He won all but three of the city's then twenty-six precincts. He was the first Republican to have sought the position in a quarter century. Then Democratic Governor Sidney Sanders McMath attributed Remmel's victory to local factors, particularly a divisive Democratic primary between Massell and Alderman Franklin E. Loy (February 10, 1915 – February 6, 1999), also an insurance agent.[12]  

The Little Rock election caught the eye of Republican [[U.S. Senato]]r [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] who told an audience in Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], that he hoped Remmel's victory would be "indicative of a new trend in the South."[13]At the 1952 Republican convention in [[Chicago]], Remmel first favored a largely ceremonial choice, General [[Douglas MacArthur]], a fellow Little Rock native whom he had hosted when the general visited the city.[14] Delegates Remmel, his mother "Nell" Remmel, National Committeeman [[Wallace Townsend]] and state GOP chairman [[Osro Cobb]] all voted at the convention for Taft. The Arkansas delegation split 6-4 for Taft, and an eleventh delegate abstained.[15] When the nomination went to [[Dwight Eisenhower]]], a [[Texas]] native who grew up in [[Kansas]], Remmel worked for the national ticket, but the [[Adlai Stevenson]]-[[John Sparkman]] electors still won in Arkansas, a traditional Democratic political bastion at that time.  

The Little Rock election caught the eye of Republican [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]] who told an audience in Biloxi, [[Mississippi]], that he hoped Remmel's victory would be "indicative of a new trend in the South."[13]At the 1952 Republican convention in [[Chicago]], Remmel first favored a largely ceremonial choice, General [[Douglas MacArthur]], a fellow Little Rock native whom he had hosted when the general visited the city.[14] Delegates Remmel, his mother "Nell" Remmel, National Committeeman [[Wallace Townsend]] and state GOP chairman [[Osro Cobb]] all voted at the convention for Taft. The Arkansas delegation split 6-4 for Taft, and an eleventh delegate abstained.[15] When the nomination went to [[Dwight Eisenhower]]], a [[Texas]] native who grew up in [[Kansas]], Remmel worked for the national ticket, but the [[Adlai Stevenson]]-[[John Sparkman]] electors still won in Arkansas, a traditional Democratic political bastion at that time.

==Reelection as mayor, 1953==

==Reelection as mayor, 1953==