Presidential elections in Arkansas Number of elections 46 Voted Democratic 32 Voted Republican 12 Voted other 2[ a] Voted for winning candidate 27 Voted for losing candidate 19
Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States .[ 1] Since its admission to the Union in June 1836, it has participated in 46 United States presidential elections . In the realigning 1860 election , Arkansas was one of the ten slave states that did not provide ballot access to the Republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln .[ 2] Subsequently, John C. Breckinridge won the state by a comfortable margin, becoming the first third party candidate to win Arkansas. Soon after this election, Arkansas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy .[ 4] Following the secession, Arkansas did not participate in the 1864 presidential election . After the Civil War , Arkansas was readmitted to the Union in 1868.[ 6] In the 1872 election , all six of Arkansas's electoral votes were invalidated due to various irregularities including allegations of electoral fraud.[ 7]
Until 1964, Arkansas was considered a stronghold state for the Democratic Party , which usually carried the state by huge margins; however, recent political realignment has led to the dominance of the Republican Party.[ 8] In the 1968 presidential election , American Independent Party candidate George Wallace became the second third-party presidential candidate to win Arkansas.[ 9] Arkansas was the only state in the 1992 presidential election to be won by a majority of the popular vote; Bill Clinton , its governor at the time, won Arkansas with 53.21 percent of the vote.[ 11] Since Clinton won re-election in 1996, however, the state has voted consistently for the Republican Party.[ 12]
Presidential elections [ edit ]
Key for parties
Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner.
Presidential elections in Arkansas from 1836 to 1856
Year
Winner
Runner-up
EV
Ref.
Candidate
Votes
%
Candidate
Votes
%
1836
Martin Van Buren (D) ‡
2,380
64.08%
Hugh Lawson White (W)
1,334
35.92%
3
1840
Martin Van Buren (D)
6,679
56.42%
William Henry Harrison (W) ‡
5,160
43.58%
3
1844
James K. Polk (D) ‡
9,546
63.01%
Henry Clay (W)
5,604
36.99%
3
1848
Lewis Cass (D)
9,301
55.07%
Zachary Taylor (W) ‡
7,587
44.93%
3
1852
Franklin Pierce (D) ‡
12,173
62.18%
Winfield Scott (W)
7,404
37.82%
4
1856
James Buchanan (D) ‡
21,910
67.12%
Millard Fillmore (KN)
10,732
32.88%
4
The election of 1860 was a complex realigning election in which the breakdown of the previous two-party alignment culminated in four parties each competing for influence in different parts of the country.[ 30] The result of the election, with the victory of an ardent opponent of slavery , spurred the secession of eleven states and brought about the American Civil War .[ 31]
Presidential elections in Arkansas from 1864 to present
Year
Winner
Runner-up
Other candidate[ c]
EV
Ref.
Candidate
Votes
%
Candidate
Votes
%
Candidate
Votes
%
Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡
22,112
53.68%
Horatio Seymour (D)
19,078
46.32%
–
–
–
5
Ulysses S. Grant (R) ‡
41,373
52.17%
Horace Greeley (LR) [ d]
37,927
47.83%
–
–
–
Samuel J. Tilden (D)
58,086
59.92%
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) ‡
38,649
39.87%
Peter Cooper (GB)
211
0.22%
6
Winfield Scott Hancock (D)
60,489
55.56%
James A. Garfield (R) ‡
41,661
38.27%
James B. Weaver (GB)
4,079
3.75%
6
Grover Cleveland (D) ‡
72,734
57.83%
James G. Blaine (R)
51,198
40.7%
Benjamin F. Butler (GB)
1,847
1.47%
7
Grover Cleveland
86,062
54.8%
Benjamin Harrison (R) ‡
59,752
38.04%
Alson J. Streeter (L)
10,630
6.77%
7
Grover Cleveland (D) ‡
87,834
59.3%
Benjamin Harrison (R)
47,072
31.78%
James B. Weaver (PO)
11,831
7.99%
8
William Jennings Bryan (D)
110,103
73.7%
William McKinley (R) ‡
37,512
25.11%
Joshua Levering (PRO)
889
0.6%
8
William Jennings Bryan (D)
81,242
63.49%
William McKinley (R) ‡
44,800
35.01%
Wharton Barker (PO)
972
0.76%
8
Alton B. Parker (D)
64,434
55.39%
Theodore Roosevelt (R) ‡
46,760
40.2%
Thomas E. Watson (PO)
2,318
1.99%
9
William Jennings Bryan (D)
87,020
57.31%
William Howard Taft (R) ‡
56,684
37.33%
Eugene Debs (S)
5,842
3.85%
9
Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡
68,814
55.01%
William Howard Taft (R)
25,585
20.45%
Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912)
21,644
17.3%
9
Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡
112,211
66.65%
Charles Evans Hughes (R)
48,879
29.03%
Allan L. Benson (S)
6,999
4.16%
9
James M. Cox (D)
107,409
58.49%
Warren G. Harding (R) ‡
71,117
38.73%
Parley P. Christensen (FL)
5,111
2.78%
9
John W. Davis (D)
84,790
61.2%
Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡
40,583
29.29%
Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924)
13,167
9.5%
9
Al Smith (D)
119,196
60.28%
Herbert Hoover (R) ‡
77,784
39.34%
Norman Thomas (S)
429
0.22%
9
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡
186,829
86.27%
Herbert Hoover (R)
27,466
12.68%
Norman Thomas (S)
1,166
0.59%
9
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡
146,765
81.79%
Alf Landon (R)
32,039
17.86%
Norman Thomas (S)
446
0.25%
9
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡
157,213
78.44%
Wendell Willkie (R)
42,121
21.02%
Roger Babson (PRO)
793
0.4%
9
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡
148,965
69.95%
Thomas E. Dewey (R)
63,551
29.84%
Norman Thomas (S)
438
0.21%
9
Harry S. Truman (D) ‡
149,659
61.72%
Thomas E. Dewey (R)
50,959
21.02%
Strom Thurmond (DI)
40,068
16.52%
9
Adlai Stevenson (D)
226,300
55.9%
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡
177,155
43.76%
Stuart Hamblen (PRO)
886
0.22%
8
Adlai Stevenson (D)
213,277
52.46%
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡
186,287
45.82%
T. Coleman Andrews (C)
7,008
1.72%
8
John F. Kennedy (D) ‡
215,049
50.19%
Richard Nixon (R)
184,508
43.06%
Orval Faubus (NSR)
28,952
6.76%
8
Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡
314,197
56.06%
Barry Goldwater (R)
243,264
43.41%
John Kasper (NSR)
2,965
0.53%
6
George Wallace (AI)
240,982
38.87%
Richard Nixon (R) ‡
190,759
30.77%
Hubert Humphrey (D)
188,228
30.36%
6
Richard Nixon (R) ‡
448,541
68.87%
George McGovern (D)
198,892
30.54%
John G. Schmitz (AI)
2,887
0.44%
6
Jimmy Carter (D) ‡
499,614
65.09%
Gerald Ford (R)
268,753
35.02%
Eugene McCarthy (I)
647
0.08%
6
Ronald Reagan (R) ‡
403,164
48.13%
Jimmy Carter (D)
398,041
47.52%
John B. Anderson (I)
22,468
2.68%
6
Ronald Reagan (R) ‡
534,774
60.47%
Walter Mondale (D)
338,646
38.29%
David Bergland (LI)
2,221
0.25%
6
George H. W. Bush (R) ‡
466,578
56.37%
Michael Dukakis (D)
349,237
42.19%
David Duke (PO-1984)
5,146
0.62%
6
Bill Clinton [ f] (D) ‡
505,823
53.21%
George H. W. Bush (R)
337,324
35.48%
Ross Perot (I)
99,132
10.43%
6
Bill Clinton [ f] (D) ‡
475,171
53.74%
Bob Dole (R)
325,416
36.8%
Ross Perot (RE)
69,884
7.9%
6
George W. Bush (R) ‡
472,940
51.31%
Al Gore (D)
422,768
45.86%
Ralph Nader (G)
13,421
1.46%
6
George W. Bush (R) ‡
572,898
54.31%
John Kerry (D)
469,953
44.55%
Ralph Nader (I)
6,171
0.58%
6
John McCain (R)
638,017
58.72%
Barack Obama (D) ‡
422,310
38.86%
Ralph Nader (I)
12,882
1.19%
6
Mitt Romney (R)
647,744
60.57%
Barack Obama (D) ‡
394,409
36.88%
Gary Johnson (LI)
16,276
1.52%
6
Donald Trump (R) ‡
684,872
60.57%
Hillary Clinton (D)
380,494
33.65%
Gary Johnson (LI)
29,829
2.64%
6
Donald Trump (R)
760,647
62.4%
Joe Biden (D) ‡
423,932
34.78%
Jo Jorgensen (LI)
13,133
1.08%
6
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