The Green Papers: Arkansas 2023 General Election
 
This page is for offices up for election in 2023. Find 2024 elections here.

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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
Governor:1 
2020 Census:3,013,756 (0.97% of 309,785,186)
2024, 2028 Electoral Votes:6(0.00% of 538)
2022-2030 Representatives:4(0.92% of 435)
Capital:Little Rock
 

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Arkansas State and Local Government

Arkansas Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats   Republicans


Primary elections are for Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican candidates only. If no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote, a runoff between the two top vote-getters will be held.

If the General Election filing date falls on a holiday, the deadline is extended 1 day.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 118th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2 Republican Senator Thomas B. "Tom" Cotton
First elected: 2014; re-elected: 2020.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
 Candidate list (1)
  Candidate Republican     Senator Thomas B. "Tom" Cotton
FEC S4AR00103

Class 3 Republican Senator John Nichols Boozman
First elected: 2010; re-elected: 2016, 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2028

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime, All Governors

  Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
First elected: 2022.
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Lieutenant Governor Leslie Rutledge
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

118th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2024, 2026. No Term Limit. 118th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
4 Republican (4 Undetermined)

Incumbent - 118th Congress
CD 1 Republican Member of Congress Eric Alan "Rick" Crawford
First elected: 2010
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2024
 Candidate list (2) - 119th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Rodney Govens
FEC H4AR01077
  Candidate Republican     Member of Congress Eric Alan "Rick" Crawford
FEC H0AR01083; 30 Sep 23; Tot $393,468; Dsb $196,208

Incumbent - 118th Congress
CD 2 Republican Member of Congress James French "French" Hill
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2024
 Candidate list (2) - 119th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Marcus A. Jones
FEC H4AR02232
  Candidate Republican     Member of Congress James French "French" Hill
FEC H4AR02141; 30 Sep 23; Tot $1,082,080; Dsb $369,314

Incumbent - 118th Congress
CD 3 Republican Member of Congress Stephen A. "Steve" Womack
First elected: 2010
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2024
 Candidate list (3) - 119th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Caitlin Rae Draper Mattelin
aka Caitlin Draper

FEC H4AR03065
  Candidate Republican     state Senator Clint Penzo
FEC H4AR03073
  Candidate Republican     Member of Congress Stephen A. "Steve" Womack
FEC H0AR03055; 30 Sep 23; Tot $544,642; Dsb $313,037

Incumbent - 118th Congress
CD 4 Republican Member of Congress Bruce Westerman
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2024
 Candidate list (3) - 119th Congress
  Candidate Democratic     Risie R. "Risi" Howard
FEC H4AR04089
  Candidate Republican     Member of Congress Bruce Westerman
FEC H4AR04048; 30 Sep 23; Tot $1,132,185; Dsb $314,514
  Candidate Independent     John White

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime

  Republican Secretary of State John Thurston
First elected: 2018; re-elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
The current Secretary of State is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Seat - At term limit.
9 August 2023: Special Election candidate for Treasurer in 2024.

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Attorney General John Timothy "Tim" Griffin
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Treasurer Larry W. Walther
Appointed: 3 August 2023 [re: death of Treasurer Mark Lowery (Republican)]
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
Open Seat - Not a candidate for election in 2024.
 March 2023: Arkansas state Treasurer Mark Lowery suffered an ischemic stroke.
30 June 2023: Treasurer Mark Lowery suffered another stroke. The office operating under the direction of Treasury Chief of Staff Stephen Bright and Chief Deputy Treasurer Eric Munson.
25 July 2023: Treasurer Mark Lowery announced that he will resign on 30 September 2023.
26 July 2023: Arkansas State Treasurer Mark Lowery (Republican), 66, who was first elected in 2022, died.
3 August 2023: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) names Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Larry Walther (Republican) to fill the seat until 2025. The winner of the 5 November 2024 special election will fill the seat for the remainder of the term which ends in 2027.

   
Seat up for special election: Tuesday 5 November 2024 (presumably)
Special Election - To fill the seat of state Treasurer Mark Lowery (Republican) who died on 26 July 2023 for the remainder of the term which ends in 2027.
 Candidate list (2)
  Candidate Democratic     John Pagan
  Candidate Republican     Secretary of State John Thurston
9 August 2023: Special Election candidate for Treasurer in 2024.

Auditor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026

  Republican Auditor Dennis Milligan
First elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026

Commissioner of State Lands  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2026. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime

  Republican State Lands Commissioner Tommy Land
First elected: 2018; re-elected: 2022.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2026
The current Commissioner of State Lands is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Seat - At term limit
 

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 5 candidates
  Republican: 13 incumbents, 7 candidates
Independents
  (blank): 1 incumbent
  Independent: 1 candidate
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


 


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