{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ar",
  "name": "Arkansas",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ar",
  "slug": "ar",
  "state": "ar",
  "state_name": "Arkansas",
  "state_id": "us-ar"
 },
 "question": "How did Arkansas vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "John Boozman (Republican) won by 34.6 points",
  "value": 34.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "John Boozman (Republican) 65.7%, Natalie James (Democrat) 31.1%, Kenneth Cates (Libertarian) 3.2%",
   "901,306 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Arkansas since 1978",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 10 and Republicans in 6.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1978,
       60.177,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       18.215,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       14.696,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       24.56,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       99.833,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       20.354,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -5.4,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       12.843,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       7.792,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       11.828,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       79.533,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -20.958,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -17.067,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -23.601,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -66.53,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       -34.644,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 517138,
    "votes": {
     "David Pryor": 395506,
     "Tom Kelly": 84308,
     "John Graham Black": 37211
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 808812,
    "votes": {
     "Dale Bumpers": 477905,
     "Bill Clark": 330576
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 875956,
    "votes": {
     "David Pryor": 502341,
     "Ed Bethune": 373615
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 695487,
    "votes": {
     "Dale Bumpers": 433122,
     "Asa Hutchinson": 262313
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 494735,
    "votes": {
     "David H. Pryor": 493910
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 920008,
    "votes": {
     "Dale Bumpers": 553635,
     "Mike Huckabee": 366373
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 846183,
    "votes": {
     "Y. Tim Hutchinson": 445942,
     "Winston Bryant": 400241
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 700831,
    "votes": {
     "Blanche Lambert Lincoln": 385878,
     "Fay Boozman": 295870,
     "Charley E. Heffley": 18896
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 804121,
    "votes": {
     "Mark Pryor": 433386,
     "Tim Hutchinson": 370735
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1039349,
    "votes": {
     "Blanche L. Lincoln": 580973,
     "Jim Holt": 458036
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1011754,
    "votes": {
     "Mark L. Pryor": 804678,
     "Rebekah Kennedy": 207076
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 779957,
    "votes": {
     "John Boozman": 451618,
     "Blanche L. Lincoln": 288156,
     "Trevor Drown": 25234,
     "John Laney Gray Iii": 14430
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 847505,
    "votes": {
     "Tom Cotton": 478819,
     "Mark L. Pryor": 334174,
     "Nathan Lafrance": 17210,
     "Mark H. Swaney": 16797
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1107522,
    "votes": {
     "John Boozman": 661984,
     "Conner Eldridge": 400602,
     "Frank Gilbert": 43866
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1193261,
    "votes": {
     "Tom Cotton": 793871,
     "Ricky Dale Harrington Jr.": 399390
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 901306,
    "votes": {
     "John Boozman": 592437,
     "Natalie James": 280187,
     "Kenneth Cates": 28682
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022",
    "John Boozman (R) 65.7%",
    "Natalie James (D) 31.1%",
    "34.6 pts",
    "901,306"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Tom Cotton (R) 66.5%",
    "Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. (L) 33.5%",
    "33.1 pts",
    "1,193,261"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "John Boozman (R) 59.8%",
    "Conner Eldridge (D) 36.2%",
    "23.6 pts",
    "1,107,522"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Tom Cotton (R) 56.5%",
    "Mark L. Pryor (D) 39.4%",
    "17.1 pts",
    "847,505"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "John Boozman (R) 57.9%",
    "Blanche L. Lincoln (D) 36.9%",
    "21.0 pts",
    "779,957"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Mark L. Pryor (D) 79.5%",
    "Rebekah Kennedy (I) 20.5%",
    "59.1 pts",
    "1,011,754"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Blanche L. Lincoln (D) 55.9%",
    "Jim Holt (R) 44.1%",
    "11.8 pts",
    "1,039,349"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Mark Pryor (D) 53.9%",
    "Tim Hutchinson (R) 46.1%",
    "7.8 pts",
    "804,121"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D) 55.1%",
    "Fay Boozman (R) 42.2%",
    "12.8 pts",
    "700,831"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Y. Tim Hutchinson (R) 52.7%",
    "Winston Bryant (D) 47.3%",
    "5.4 pts",
    "846,183"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Dale Bumpers (D) 60.2%",
    "Mike Huckabee (R) 39.8%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "920,008"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "David H. Pryor (D) 99.8%",
    "unopposed",
    "99.8 pts",
    "494,735"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Dale Bumpers (D) 62.3%",
    "Asa Hutchinson (R) 37.7%",
    "24.6 pts",
    "695,487"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "David Pryor (D) 57.3%",
    "Ed Bethune (R) 42.7%",
    "14.7 pts",
    "875,956"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Dale Bumpers (D) 59.1%",
    "Bill Clark (R) 40.9%",
    "18.2 pts",
    "808,812"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "David Pryor (D) 76.5%",
    "Tom Kelly (R) 16.3%",
    "60.2 pts",
    "517,138"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-ar/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}