Arkansas · U.S. Senate
AR Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Arkansas Secretary of State (Candidate Search portal) — AR candidate search portal home (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 0 · published here: 0 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. Official portal candidates.arkansas.gov is an interactive search app; site search (?s=2026) returns no candidate rows, no /candidates/ path (404), and no bulk export endpoint exposed without JS. sos.arkansas.gov/elections/for-candidates links only to forms and the portal.
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Polling
Not charted: fewer than 3 nonpartisan polls to identify the matchup.
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Arkansas
- Median household income$60,773± $467
- Poverty rate16.0%± 0.2 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)44.8%± 0.8 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate66.4%± 0.4 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)25.7%± 0.3 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
No contest in this release carries campaign-finance context.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Tom Cotton · Republican · Arkansas · served in 7 Congresses since 2013
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide C001095), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- S.4984-119 — Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Actsponsor latest action 2026-07-15: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · subjects: Labor and Employment
- S.4795-119 — FREEDOM Actsponsor latest action 2026-06-16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · subjects: Energy
- S.4380-119 — Critical Infrastructure Airspace Defense Actsponsor latest action 2026-04-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
- S.5028-119 — Ratepayer Protection Actcosponsor latest action 2026-07-16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · subjects: Energy
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.