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Arkansas State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | March 5, 2024 |
| Primary runoff | April 2, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Arkansas State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was March 5, 2024, and the primary runoff was April 2, 2024. The filing deadline was November 14, 2023.
Following the election, Republicans maintained a 29-6 veto-proof majority.
The Arkansas State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 6 | 6 | |
| Republican Party | 29 | 29 | |
| Total | 35 | 35 | |
Candidates
General election
Arkansas State Senate general election 2024 |
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R. Asher Williams (Libertarian Party) |
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Lonny Goodwin (Libertarian Party) |
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Primary
Arkansas State Senate primary 2024 |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 3 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 4 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 5 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 6 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 8 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 12 |
The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 17 |
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| District 18 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 19 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 22 |
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| District 23 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 26 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 29 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 33 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Arkansas
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. This was less than the average of 1.0 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. The last time this occurred was in 2016.
Retiring incumbents
One incumbent did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] This number was tied with 2020 as the smallest number of retirements since Ballotpedia began gathering data in 2010. Those incumbents were:
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Linda Chesterfield | Senate District 12 |
Incumbents who did not advance to the general election
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. The last time this occurred was in 2016.
Retiring incumbents
One incumbent did not file for re-election in 2024.[2] This number was tied with 2020 as the smallest number of retirements since Ballotpedia began gathering data in 2010. Those incumbents were:
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Linda Chesterfield | Senate District 12 |
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Arkansas. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Arkansas in 2024. Information below was calculated on Feb. 28, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Arkansas had 24 contested state legislative primaries in 2024, a 61% decrease from 2022.
Of the 24 contested primaries, there were 10 for Democrats and 14 for Republicans. For Democrats, this was the same as in 2022, and a decade high. For Republicans, the number was down 73% from 52 in 2022.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners, "Running for Public Office: A 'Plain English' Handbook for Candidates," 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Arkansas Code of 1987, "Title 7, Elections," accessed February 20, 2025
- ↑ Arkansas State Board of Election Commissioners, "Running for Public Office: A 'Plain English' Handbook for Candidates," 2016
- ↑ On December 15, 2017, a federal judge ruled that Arkansas' March 1 deadline for independent candidates was unconstitutional.
- ↑ Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023), "Section 7-5-205," accessed February 21, 2025
- ↑ WKY 3, "Arkansas governor signs several bills that change elections in the Natural State," March 18, 2023
- ↑ Arkansas Code, "Section 7-8-102," accessed February 20, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "Arkansas Constitution Article 5 - Legislative Department Section 5 - Time of meeting," accessed October 26, 2021
- ↑ American Independent Party
