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The 2022 Arkansas Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2022
United States elections
Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people of each state, through an Electora ...
. Arkansas voters elected state senators to the Arkansas Senate in 18 of the state's 35 senate districts. The primary elections in March 2022, determined which candidates would appear on the November 8, 2022, general election ballot.
Composition
Retirements
Democrats
#District 10:Larry Teague
Larry R. Teague (from Nashville, Arkansas) is a former American politician and was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate representing District 10, which includes Howard County, Arkansas, Howard, Montgomery C ...
retired.
#District 24: Keith Ingram retired due to term limits.
#District 31: Joyce Elliott retired due to term limits.
Independents
#District 2:Jim Hendren
James Paul Hendren (born August 12, 1963) is an American politician serving as a member of the Arkansas Senate from the 2nd district. From January 2019 to January 2021, he also served as Senate Majority Leader. Until February 2021, he was a Repub ...
retired.
Republicans
#District 3: Cecile Bledsoe retired. #District 7:Colby Fulfer
Colby Fulfer is an American politician who served in the Arkansas Senate representing the Springdale area from 2022 to 2023.
Education
Fulfer graduated from the Shiloh Christian School.
Career
Fulfer worked at the Westfield Chapel Funera ...
retired.
#District 8: Mathew Pitsch
Mathew "Mat" Pitsch (born ) is an American politician serving as a member of the Arkansas Senate from the 8th district. Elected in November 2018, he assumed office on January 14, 2019. Pitsch served as a member of the Arkansas House of Representa ...
retired to run for treasurer of Arkansas.
#District 27: Trent Garner retired.
#District 35: Jason Rapert
Stanley Jason Rapert (born April 3, 1972) is an American politician from the state of Arkansas, who served as a member of the Arkansas State Senate from 2011 to 2023 and represented the 35th district.
Political career
Rapert was elected in 201 ...
retired to run for lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
Incumbents defeated
In primaries
Republicans
#District 3: Charles Beckham lost renomination to former Magnolia, Arkansas City Councilman Steve Crowell after being redistricted from District 12. #District 6:Bill Sample
Bill Sample (born April 16, 1946) is a state legislator in Arkansas.
Career
A Republican, he has served in the Arkansas Senate since 2011 representing Hot Springs. He served three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives beginning in 2005. ...
lost renomination to Garland County Justice of the Peace Matt McKee after being redistricted from District 14.
#District 22: James Sturch
James Marvin Sturch (born December 8, 1990) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member for the 63rd district of the Arkansas House of Representatives and also the 19th district of the Arkansas Senate.
Sturch was born in Batesv ...
lost renomination to House Representative John Payton after being redistricted from District 19.
#District 28: Bob Ballinger
Bob Ballinger (born January 31, 1974) is an American attorney and politician. He served in the Arkansas General Assembly from 2013 to 2023.
Early life and education
Ballinger was born in Bremerton, Washington and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He ...
lost renomination to former Senator Bryan King after being redistricted from District 5.
Predictions
Summary
*Note: All districts were renumbered following theredistricting
Redistribution (re-districting in the United States and in the Philippines) is the process by which electoral districts are added, removed, or otherwise changed. Redistribution is a form of boundary delimitation that changes electoral dist ...
process.
Closest races
Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%: # #Detailed results
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
District 16
District 17
District 18
District 19
District 20
District 21
District 22
District 23
District 24
District 25
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
See also
*2022 Arkansas elections
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. Pr ...
* 2022 Arkansas House of Representatives election
The 2022 Arkansas House of Representatives elections was held on November 8, 2022. Elections were held to elect representatives from all 100 Arkansas House of Representatives, House of Representatives districts across the U.S. state of Arkansas. ...
* Arkansas Senate
References
External links
{{ArkansasSenate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
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