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Last updated: Oct. 10, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Arkansas within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include office for four U.S. Representatives, state treasurer, 100 state Representatives, 18 state Senators, one supreme court justice and one intermediate appellate court justice. Additionally, there are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Arkansas. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Arkansas
- The elected offices that Arkansas voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Arkansas that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Arkansas will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Arkansas' congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Arkansas
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Arkansas
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Arkansas
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Arkansas
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Arkansas elections, 2024
Arkansas voters will elect four U.S. Representatives. Incumbents are running in all four districts.
One statewide executive office, the Arkansas Treasurer, is holding a special election. The incumbent is Larry Walther (R), who succeeded Mark Lowery (R), who died on July 26, 2023. This is an open race.
All 100 seats in the state House are up for election. 18 seats in the state Senate are up for a regularly scheduled election.
One seat on the state supreme court and one seat on the state court of appeals are up for election. Arkansas is one of 13 states that use nonpartisan elections at the state supreme court level and one of 16 states that use this method for at least one type of court below the supreme court level. An incumbent holds the supreme court seat. The court of appeals seat is an open race.
School board elections are being held in Little Rock. An incumbent holds one seat, and the other is an open seat. The Little Rock School District is one of 475 school districts included in Ballotpedia's coverage of school board elections. This includes all school districts in the 100 largest cities by population and the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment.
Municipal elections will be held in Little Rock for the city council. Incumbents are running in all four seats. Little Rock is one of 82 cities included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Below is a list of Arkansas elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Arkansas elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | — | — |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | ✓ | Click here |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct 10, Ballotpedia has not identified any elections as noteworthy.
Ballot measures
- See also: Arkansas 2024 ballot measures
There are two statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Arkansas.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 1 | Allow state lottery proceeds to fund scholarships and grants for vocational-technical schools and technical institutes |
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1,029,102 (90%) |
119,527 (10%) |
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| Issue 2 | Repeal the authorization for a casino license in Pope County and require countywide voter approval for any new casino licenses |
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638,655 (56%) |
505,772 (44%) |
From 1996 to 2022, 58 ballot measures were on the ballot in Arkansas. Voters approved 38 measures and defeated 20.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Republicans represent all four districts in Arkansas' U.S. House delegation. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Arkansas' U.S. Senators—John Boozman and Tom Cotton—are Republicans. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 29-6 majority in the state Senate and an 82-18 majority in the state House. Republicans have held a majority in both chambers since 2013.
Because the governor is a Republican, Arkansas is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2015, when Asa Hutchinson (R) took office as governor. Arkansas' attorney general and secretary of state are Republicans. This makes Arkansas one of 25 states with Republican triplexes. It has held this status since 2015.
Past presidential election results in Arkansas
- See also: Presidential election in Arkansas, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 80.4% of Arkansans lived in one of the state's 66 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 19.4% lived in one of eight Solid Democratic counties. Overall, Arkansas was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Arkansas following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Arkansas county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Republican | 66 | 80.4% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 8 | 19.4% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 1 | 0.2% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 8 | 19.4% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 67 | 80.6% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Arkansas had a Competitiveness Index of 22.4, ranking it 41st of the 44 states that held elections.
- 13 of the 118 seats up for election were open (11%).
- 10 of the 105 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (10%).
- 55 of the 118 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (47%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Arkansas, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 45.3% | 6.3% | 32.5% | 28.0 | 30 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 34.8% | 13.6% | 47.4% | 31.9 | 29 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 26.3% | 9.2% | 31.4% | 22.3 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 12.8% | 9.8% | 23.9% | 15.5 | 43 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 19.5% | 15.8% | 39.8% | 25.0 | 38 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 8.5% | 10.3% | 39.3% | 19.4 | 43 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 23.7% | 27.9% | 35.6% | 29.1 | 34 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 11.0% | 9.5% | 46.6% | 22.4 | 41 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
Hover over column headings to learn more about their contents. Click on headings for more state-specific information.
| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Arkansas, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 12.0% | 9.1% | 50.0% | 23.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 5.6% | 11.8% | 27.8% | 15.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 11.0% | 9.5% | 46.6% | 22.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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