- Lead
- 4,684
- Total
- 7,463
- vs nation
- D+64.2
Arkansas 79th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,884
- Total
- 9,114
- vs nation
- D+60.1
- Lead
- 5,371
- Total
- 8,627
- vs nation
- D+60.2
- Lead
- 4,977
- Total
- 8,599
- vs nation
- D+54.0
- Lead
- 5,081
- Total
- 8,730
- vs nation
- D+50.9
- Lead
- 4,814
- Total
- 8,309
- vs nation
- D+60.4
- Lead
- 3,838
- Total
- 6,833
- vs nation
- D+55.6
- Lead
- 4,662
- Total
- 7,219
- vs nation
- D+56.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+62.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 30,0652024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,467 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,3092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 15.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 56.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 77, AR · twin score 99.3
presidential history
Party record book
Arkansas 79th 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
97.4%
894 votes · D+94.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 95.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
36.4%
1,497 votes · D+27.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 32.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
7,383votes
81.0% of the vote · D+64.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 6,948 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
2,006votes
32.1% of the vote · D+35.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 1,821 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
+98.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+72.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +97.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−29.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+51.8 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −40.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Arkansas 79th State House District sits in the Mid-South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.8 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.8 points.
A population of 30,065, a 16% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,309 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 77 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 79th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/05079/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.