United States House elections in Arkansas, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primaries)
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The 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arkansas took place on November 3, 2020. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's four congressional districts. This page focuses on the Democratic primaries that took place in Arkansas on March 3, 2020.
Click here for more information about the Republican primaries.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Arkansas utilizes an open primary system. Registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Candidates
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District 1
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
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District 3
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
One of 75 Arkansas counties—1.33 percent—is a Pivot County. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
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| County | Trump margin of victory in 2016 | Obama margin of victory in 2012 | Obama margin of victory in 2008 | ||||
| Woodruff County, Arkansas | 8.91% | 4.21% | 7.46% | ||||
In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) won Arkansas with 60.6 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton (D) received 33.7 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Arkansas voted Democratic 66.67 percent of the time and Republican 30 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Arkansas voted Republican all five times.
See also
- United States House elections in Arkansas, 2020 (March 3 Republican primaries)
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2020
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2020
- United States House elections in Arkansas (May 22, 2018 Republican primaries)
- United States House elections in Arkansas (May 22, 2018 Democratic primaries)
Footnotes
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures Website, "State Primary Election Types," accessed April 3, 2023
- ↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
