 In the run-up to the 2006 Arkansas elections, Halter initially ran for Governor of Arkansas, but dropped out in March 2006 and instead ran successfully for lieutenant governor.He won a Democratic primary election run-off against Tim Wooldridge and then defeated Jim L. Holt of Springdale, a conservative former Republican state legislator and Southern Baptist minister, in the general election.In 2007, there was speculation that Halter would run for the United States Senate against incumbent Mark Pryor in 2008, but this did not occur.