Stephen Meeks (born October 30, 1970) is an American politician serving as a member of the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...

from the 67th district in

Faulkner County Faulkner County is located in the Central Arkansas region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 113,237, making it the fifth most populous of Arkansas's 75 counties. The county seat and largest city is Conwa ...

since 2011.

Political career

Election

Meeks was elected in the

general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

on November 2, 2010, winning 55 percent of the vote over 45 percent for Democratic candidate Eddie Hawkins. He represented the 47th district. Meeks was reelected in 2012 with 73% of the vote, representing the 67th district. He ran unopposed in 2014 and 2016. He was reelected in 2018 with 79% of the vote, and in 2020 with 75% of the vote.

References

Meeks, Stephen Living people 21st-century American politicians 1970 births {{Arkansas-politician-stub