Loading…

Akashic

state senate district

Arkansas 1st State Senate District

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1876–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1876 → 2024

2024

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

English10.7%12.3%9.5%

American6.7%7.5%5.3%

Irish6.6%8.9%9.4%

German3.9%9.2%12.5%

Scottish1.0%1.8%1.3%

Italian0.9%1.4%4.8%

French0.7%1.3%1.6%

Scotch-Irish0.6%0.6%—

African American†21.9%13.5%9.9%

African2.4%0.9%0.5%

Mexican4.9%6.3%11.3%

Salvadoran0.2%0.9%0.7%

Spaniard0.2%——

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Median age	41.8	38.8	39.1
Age 18–24	9.2%	9.4%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	19.6%	17.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Median household income	$49,293	$60,773	$84,427
Poverty rate	19.0%	16.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	18.2%	26.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Owner-occupied homes	70.6%	66.4%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	29.4%	33.6%	34.8%
Median home value	$112,500	$188,000	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$725	$947	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	44.5%	44.8%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	19.1%	13.5%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Mean commute	23.0 min	22.5 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	7.2%	5.6%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	86.2%	78.9%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%
Works from home	4.5%	8.8%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	5.6%	8.3%	22.3%
Spanish	4.8%	6.2%	13.6%

Religious landscape

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Catholic	—	5.2%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	38.2%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	42.5%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	AR SD 1	Arkansas	United States
Foreign-born residents	2.8%	5.4%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	0.7%	1.9%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	2.0%	3.6%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	5.5%	7.4%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.490	0.479	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic27.8%8,641TrumpRepublican70.8%22,013OtherAll other candidates1.4%440

R+43.0

Lead: 13,372
Total: 31,094
vs nation: R+41.5

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

BidenDemocratic30.0%10,328TrumpRepublican67.7%23,292OtherAll other candidates2.4%810

R+37.7

Lead: 12,964
Total: 34,430
vs nation: R+42.1

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ClintonDemocratic32.9%10,877TrumpRepublican65.4%21,615OtherAll other candidates1.7%576

R+32.5

Lead: 10,738
Total: 33,068
vs nation: R+34.6

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ObamaDemocratic36.7%12,333RomneyRepublican61.2%20,559OtherAll other candidates2.2%724

R+24.5

Lead: 8,226
Total: 33,616
vs nation: R+28.3

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ObamaDemocratic36.2%13,306McCainRepublican61.2%22,469OtherAll other candidates2.6%969

R+24.9

Lead: 9,163
Total: 36,744
vs nation: R+32.2

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

KerryDemocratic45.0%15,993BushRepublican54.0%19,172OtherAll other candidates1.0%347

R+9.0

Lead: 3,179
Total: 35,512
vs nation: R+6.5

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

GoreDemocratic48.5%15,959BushRepublican49.4%16,260OtherAll other candidates2.0%672

R+0.9

Lead: 301
Total: 32,891
vs nation: R+1.4

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ClintonDemocratic58.9%18,682DoleRepublican32.7%10,375OtherAll other candidates8.4%2,651

D+26.2

Lead: 8,307
Total: 31,708
vs nation: D+17.7

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+43.0MIT Election Lab
Population: 83,9962024 5-year
Population density: 20 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
Land area: 4,161 sq miTIGER/Line
Median household income: $49,2932024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 66.1%2024 5-year
Black: 24.4%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 5.6%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+86.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+52.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
Most similar: State Senate District 3, AR · twin score 97.5

presidential history

Party record book

Arkansas 1st State Senate 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

Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.

Democratic

Franklin D. Roosevelt1936

93.3%

7,121 votes · D+86.8 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 91.5%

Republican

Richard Nixon1972

75.9%

24,482 votes · R+52.0 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 70.8%

Most votes

Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.

Democratic

Jimmy Carter1976

21,883votes

65.4% of the vote · D+30.9 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · 20,971 votes

Republican

Richard Nixon1972

24,482votes

75.9% of the vote · R+52.0 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,292 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

Franklin D. Roosevelt1940

+68.2pts D vs U.S.

Place D+78.1 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +65.6 pts

Republican

Donald Trump2020

+42.1pts R vs U.S.

Place R+37.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +41.5 pts

current representation

Current officeholders

RBen GilmoreState Senate · 1

State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.

U.S. House elections · 2 House

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.

Source · Akashic county-allocated estimate from certified county returns, House; not precinct-counted.
Year	Vote lead	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	30.8%8,875	69.2%19,985	28,860
2020	R	26.7%8,272	73.3%22,730	31,002

With a 2024 presidential margin of R+43.0, this district in Arkansas anchors one end of the state's partisan spectrum. Its roughly 84,000 residents are concentrated in a part of the state where statewide Republican candidates routinely post some of their strongest numbers.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 52.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.0 points.

A population of 83,996, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,293 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 3 and State Senate District 2.

Political twins — state-senate districts

The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.

State Senate District 3

% unaffiliated% Evangelical2020–2024 trajectory

State Senate District 2

% Evangelical2008–2024 trajectory≠ % unaffiliated

State Senate District 3

% Evangelical2020–2024 trajectory% unaffiliated

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

Open the source-auditable district brief for electoral baseline, electorate, current-cycle coverage, geography, official dates, and methodology. Open campaign intelligence report → · Browse all comparisons →

Cite this page

All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.

Arkansas 1st State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/05001/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.

License: CC BY 4.0

Arkansas at the ballot boxAll elections →

Presidentcounty detail2024 US Senatestatewide2022 Governorstate + county2022 US Houseall districts2024

Places within Arkansas 1st State Senate District

counties it covers8

Ashley County Bradley County Chicot County Cleveland County Drew County Grant County Jefferson County Lincoln County

Frequently asked questions

How did Arkansas 1st State Senate District vote in 2024?

In 2024, Arkansas 1st State Senate District voted Republican by 43.0 points (R+43.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 31,094 votes cast, 8,641 went Democratic and 22,013 went Republican.

When did Arkansas 1st State Senate District last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which Arkansas 1st State Senate District voted Democratic was 1996.

How many people live in Arkansas 1st State Senate District?

Arkansas 1st State Senate District has a population of 83,996 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Arkansas 1st State Senate District?

Median household income in Arkansas 1st State Senate District is $49,293 — below the national median of $80,734. The Arkansas state median is $60,773.

What is the political history of Arkansas 1st State Senate District?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Arkansas 1st State Senate District from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.