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The elections coincided with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The primary election took place on March 5, 2024, and, if necessary, the runoff election is scheduled for April 2, 2024.
Incumbent Republican treasurer Larry Walther cannot seek a full term following his appointment by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders after the death of Mark Lowery. [2] Secretary of State John Thurston entered the race as a Republican candidate. [3]
In the 2020 Presidential Election, Republican Donald Trump won 81 of Arkansas' House districts, while Democrat Joe Biden won 19. Going into the 2024 Arkansas House Election, Democrats held one Trump-won district: District 56 in Conway (Trump +4%).
Arkansas election officials on Wednesday rejected petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure that organizers hoped to put before voters this fall in a predominantly Republican state.
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
The number of elections in Arkansas varies by year, but usually municipal elections occur every year, plus primary and general elections for federal and state offices occur during even-numbered years. The state was historically part of the Solid South, and was a one-party state dominated by Democrats.
The state of Arkansas has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. [ 1 ] Trump easily carried the state for the third time in a row in 2024, this time by a 30.64% margin, [ 2 ] the largest since 1972 .
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Arkansas on November 8, 2022. All of Arkansas' executive officers were up for election as well as all four of the state's seats in the United States House of Representatives and a U.S. senator. Primaries were held on May 24, 2022, with runoff primaries on June 21.