Wallace was easily re-elected with 637,046 (74.51%) votes against Cashin who won only 125,491 (14.68%). The American bald eagle was the symbol of the NDPA, which was often opposed by the Democratic Rooster in local Democratic elections. ANDP candidates ran in many other statewide races, but never polled above 31% or won any statewide office until losing ballot access in 1982. The party became a prominent voice for African American voting rights and an important player in local politics in Black-dominated communities such as Greene County, Hale County, Perry County, Lowndes County and Dallas County, although it failed to make a lasting impact on state politics. The NDPA was able to get around a hundred local officials elected, especially in the western part of the state. The importance of the NDPA must be viewed in terms of the impact that it had on politics in the Alabama Black Belt. A number of elected officials credited Cashin and the NDPA for their success including Probate Judge William McKinley Branch, Sheriff without a Gun Thomas Gilmore and Peter Kirksey. Even after the revolution of the mid-1960s that brought these pioneers to power in Greene County, the shadow of the eagles hovered over Greene County for a generation.