- Lead
- 6,524
- Total
- 13,812
- vs nation
- D+48.7
Arkansas 74th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,968
- Total
- 15,632
- vs nation
- D+40.1
- Lead
- 5,465
- Total
- 14,349
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 4,723
- Total
- 14,474
- vs nation
- D+28.8
- Lead
- 4,805
- Total
- 14,557
- vs nation
- D+25.7
- Lead
- 4,477
- Total
- 13,816
- vs nation
- D+34.9
- Lead
- 3,505
- Total
- 11,635
- vs nation
- D+29.6
- Lead
- 5,078
- Total
- 12,054
- vs nation
- D+33.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+47.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,3272024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,226 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,6022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+4.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 78, VA · twin score 92.1
presidential history
Party record book
Arkansas 74th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
94.1%
1,234 votes · D+88.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 91.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
51.8%
3,941 votes · R+4.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 48.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,085votes
70.9% of the vote · D+44.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,965 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
5,305votes
46.9% of the vote · D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 4,756 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+78.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +74.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−3.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+26.1 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −14.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 59.2%6,457 | 40.8%4,454 | 10,911 |
| 2020 | D | 59.8%7,687 | 40.2%5,170 | 12,857 |
District 74 recorded a 47.2-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, making it a stark outlier in a state that tilts heavily Republican statewide. Its urban concentration likely drives the lopsided partisan lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 4.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.7 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.2 points.
A population of 30,327, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,602 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 78 and State House District 76.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Arkansas 74th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/05074/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.