NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS : EDITION-TIME COMPILATIONS : State-by-State Election Reports of Key Races and Issues : Florida

Two-term Democratic Gov. Bob Graham ousted Republican Sen. Paula Hawkins, recapturing for the Democrats the Senate seat that she won in the 1980 Reagan landslide.

Former Tampa Mayor Bob Martinez, a Republican, won the race to succeed Graham as governor, defeating liberal Democratic ex-legislator Steve Pajcic.

With 92% of the precincts reporting in the Senate race, Graham had 55% of the vote, while Hawkins had 45%.

Graham portrayed himself as a pragmatic Democrat who had few quarrels with President Reagan. Hawkins, only the state’s second GOP senator since Reconstruction, said a Graham victory could help “tax-and-spend liberals” retake the Senate and hurt Reagan programs.

Hawkins, 59, pointed to her early roles in anti-drug, missing children and abused children legislation. Graham, 49, called her a cheerleader for causes no one opposed.

Martinez became the first Republican to win the governor’s mansion since Claude Kirk was elected in 1966.

In the race for state attorney general, Bob Butterworth, whose former wife fatally shot their only son and then killed herself the day before the election, easily defeated Republican opponent Jim Watt. All victory celebrations were canceled, however, at Butterworth’s request.