United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arkansas were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's four U.S. House districts. The primary was March 5, 2024, and a primary runoff was April 2, 2024. The filing deadline was November 14, 2023.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Arkansas -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Republican Party | 4 | 4 | |
| Total | 4 | 4 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Rick Crawford (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Rodney Govens (Democratic Party)
- Steven Gene Parsons (Libertarian Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Rick Crawford (Incumbent) ✔
Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
District 2
General election candidates
- French Hill (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Marcus Jones (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- French Hill (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election candidates
- Steve Womack (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Caitlin Draper Mattelin (Democratic Party)
- Bobby Wilson (Libertarian Party)
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- Steve Womack (Incumbent) ✔
- Clint Penzo
Minor Party convention candidates
Libertarian Party
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District 4
General election candidates
- Bruce Westerman (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Risie Howard (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- John White (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Bruce Westerman (Incumbent) ✔
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Arkansas
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Arkansas' 1st Congressional District
- Arkansas' 2nd Congressional District
- Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District
- Arkansas' 4th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Arkansas in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Arkansas, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Arkansas | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | Fixed by party | 11/14/2023 | Source |
| Arkansas | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 3% of qualified voters in the district, or 2,000, whichever is less | N/A | 11/14/2023 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Arkansas.
| Arkansas U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 25.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 37.5% | 3 | 75.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 37.5% | 2 | 50.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 25.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 25.0% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Arkansas in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/22/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Nine candidates filed to run for Arkansas' four U.S. House districts—four Democrats and five Republicans. That's 2.25 candidates per district, fewer than the three candidates per district in 2022, but more than the 1.75 candidates in 2020. In 2018, 3.25 candidates ran per district, the most this decade.
Incumbents filed to run in every district. The last year there was an open seat in Arkansas was 2014, when two incumbents didn’t run.
The Republican primary in the 3rd district was 2024's only contested primary. Three primaries—all Republican—were contested in 2022, tying 2018 as the most this decade. No primaries were contested in 2020.
Rep. Steve Womack (R), the incumbent in the 3rd district, was the only incumbent facing a primary challenger this cycle.
Democratic and Republican candidates ran in all four districts, meaning no districts were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for Arkansas, 2024 | |||
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| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| Arkansas' 1st | Rick Crawford |  Republican |
R+22 |
| Arkansas' 2nd | French Hill | Republican |
R+9 |
| Arkansas' 3rd | Steve Womack | Republican |
R+15 |
| Arkansas' 4th | Bruce Westerman | Republican |
R+20 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, Arkansas[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
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Donald Trump
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| Arkansas' 1st | 28.1% | 69.0% | ||
| Arkansas' 2nd | 42.1% | 55.2% | ||
| Arkansas' 3rd | 36.8% | 60.2% | ||
| Arkansas' 4th | 31.0% | 66.2% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Arkansas' congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Arkansas | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 4 | 6 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Arkansas' top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Arkansas, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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| Lieutenant Governor | Leslie Rutledge
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| Secretary of State | John Thurston
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| Attorney General | Tim Griffin
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State legislature
Arkansas State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 6 | |
| Republican Party | 29 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 35 | |
Arkansas House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 18 | |
| Republican Party | 82 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Arkansas Party Control: 1992-2024
Eleven years of Democratic trifectas • Ten years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
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