United States presidential elections in Arkansas

Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Arkansas, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1836, Arkansas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy.

Presidential elections in Arkansas

No. of elections	46
Voted Democratic	33
Voted Republican	12
Voted other	1[lower-alpha 1]
Voted for winning candidate	29
Voted for losing candidate	17

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

Elections from 1864 to present

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Counties Carried	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Counties Carried	Other national candidates[lower-alpha 2]	Votes	Percent	Counties Carried	Electoral Votes	Notes
2020[1]	Joe Biden	423,916	34.78	8	Donald Trump	760,613	62.40	67	—				6
2016[2]	Donald Trump[lower-alpha 3]	684,872	60.57	67	Hillary Clinton	380,494	33.65	8	—				6
2012[3]	Barack Obama	394,409	36.88	9	Mitt Romney	647,744	60.57	66	—				6
2008[4]	Barack Obama	422,310	38.86	9	John McCain	638,017	58.72	66	—				6
2004[5]	George W. Bush	572,898	54.31	54	John Kerry	469,953	44.55	21	—				6
2000[6]	George W. Bush[lower-alpha 3]	472,940	51.31	43	Al Gore	422,768	45.86	32	—				6
1996[7]	Bill Clinton	475,171	53.74	66	Bob Dole	325,416	36.80	9	Ross Perot	69,884	7.9	0	6
1992	Bill Clinton	505,823	53.21	70	George H. W. Bush	337,324	35.48	5	Ross Perot	99,132	10.43	0	6
1988	George H. W. Bush	466,578	56.37	52	Michael Dukakis	349,237	42.19	23	—				6
1984	Ronald Reagan	534,774	60.47	66	Walter Mondale	338,646	38.29	9	—				6
1980	Ronald Reagan	403,164	48.13	26	Jimmy Carter	398,041	47.52	49	John B. Anderson	22,468	2.68	0	6
1976	Jimmy Carter	499,614	64.94	72	Gerald Ford	268,753	34.93	3	—				6
1972	Richard Nixon	445,751	68.82	75	George McGovern	198,899	30.71	0	—				6
1968	Richard Nixon	189,062	31.01	19	Hubert Humphrey	184,901	30.33	6	George Wallace	235,627	38.65	50	6
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson	314,197	56.06	65	Barry Goldwater	243,264	43.41	10	—				6
1960	John F. Kennedy	215,049	50.19	52	Richard Nixon	184,508	43.06	23	—				8
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower	186,287	45.82	18	Adlai Stevenson II	213,277	52.46	57	T. Coleman Andrews/ Unpledged Electors[lower-alpha 4]	7,008	1.72	0	8
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower	177,155	43.76	15	Adlai Stevenson II	226,300	55.90	60	—				8
1948	Harry S. Truman	149,659	61.72	70	Thomas E. Dewey	50,959	21.02	2	Strom Thurmond	40,068	16.52	3	9
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt	148,965	69.95	71	Thomas E. Dewey	63,551	29.84	4	—				9
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt	158,622	79.02	73	Wendell Willkie	42,121	20.98	2	—				9
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	146,765	81.80	73	Alf Landon	32,039	17.86	2	—			0	9
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	189,602	85.96	75	Herbert Hoover	28,467	12.91	0	—				9
1928	Herbert Hoover	77,751	39.33	10	Al Smith	119,196	60.29	65	—				9
1924	Calvin Coolidge	40,564	29.28	2	John W. Davis	84,795	61.21	73	Robert M. La Follette	13,173	9.51	0	9
1920	Warren G. Harding	71,117	38.73	11	James M. Cox	107,409	58.49	64	Parley P. Christensen	—	—	0	9
1916	Woodrow Wilson	112,211	65.97	73	Charles E. Hughes	48,879	28.73	2	—				9
1912	Woodrow Wilson	68,814	55.01	74	Theodore Roosevelt	21,644	17.30	0	William H. Taft	25,585	20.45	1	9
1908	William H. Taft	56,624	37.30	10	William Jennings Bryan	87,015	57.31	65	—	5,842	3.85	0	9
1904	Theodore Roosevelt	46,860	40.25	11	Alton B. Parker	64,434	55.35	63	—				9
1900	William McKinley	44,800	35.04	9	William Jennings Bryan	81,142	63.46	66	—				8
1896	William McKinley	37,512	25.12	2	William Jennings Bryan	110,103	73.72	73	—				8
1892	Grover Cleveland	87,834	59.30	69	Benjamin Harrison	47,072	31.78	6	James B. Weaver	11,831	7.99	0	8
1888	Benjamin Harrison[lower-alpha 3]	59,752	38.04	17	Grover Cleveland	86,062	54.80	58	—	-		0	7
1884	Grover Cleveland	72,734	57.83	57	James G. Blaine	51,198	40.70	18	—				7
1880	James A. Garfield	41,661	38.66	18	Winfield S. Hancock	60,489	56.13	56	James B. Weaver	4,079	3.78	0	6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes[lower-alpha 3]	38,649	39.87	13	Samuel J. Tilden	58,086	59.92	61	—				6
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	41,373	52.17	28	Horace Greeley	37,927	47.83	32	—				6	Arkansas' electoral votes were rejected due to various irregularities, including allegations of electoral fraud.
1868	Ulysses S. Grant	22,112	53.7	24	Horatio Seymour	19,078	46.3	21	—				5
1864	Abraham Lincoln	n/a	n/a	n/a	George B. McClellan	n/a	n/a	n/a	—					No vote due to secession.

Election of 1860

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. 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.

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes
1860	Abraham Lincoln	no ballots		Stephen A. Douglas	5,357	9.9	John C. Breckinridge	28,732	53.1	John Bell	20,063	37.0	4

Elections prior to 1860

Year	Winner (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Runner-up (nationally)	Votes	Percent	Other national candidates[lower-alpha 2]	Votes	Percent	Electoral Votes	Notes
1856	James Buchanan	21,910	67.12	John C. Frémont	no ballots	-	Millard Fillmore	10,732	32.88	4
1852	Franklin Pierce	12,173	62.18	Winfield Scott	7,404	37.82	John P. Hale	no ballots		4
1848	Zachary Taylor	7,587	44.93	Lewis Cass	9,301	55.07	Martin Van Buren	no ballots		3
1844	James K. Polk	9,546	63.01	Henry Clay	5,604	36.99	—			3
1840	William Henry Harrison	5,160	43.58	Martin Van Buren	6,679	56.42	—			3
1836	Martin Van Buren	2,380	64.08	Hugh Lawson White	1,334	35.92	various[lower-alpha 5]			3

Notes

1. George Wallace in 1968
2. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
3. Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
4. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina
5. Three other candidates ran and received electoral votes nationally as part of the unsuccessful Whig strategy to defeat Martin Van Buren by running four candidates with local appeal in different regions of the country. The others were William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster, and Willie Person Mangum. None of these candidates appeared on the ballot in Arkansas.

References

1. "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
2. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
3. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
4. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
5. "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
6. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
7. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.

See also

• Elections in Arkansas