- Lead
- 4,803
- Total
- 38,303
- vs nation
- R+11.1
Arkansas 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,312
- Total
- 39,246
- vs nation
- R+15.4
- Lead
- 4,759
- Total
- 32,566
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 4,820
- Total
- 30,535
- vs nation
- R+19.6
- Lead
- 3,119
- Total
- 30,814
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 1,544
- Total
- 28,252
- vs nation
- R+3.0
- Lead
- 538
- Total
- 22,758
- vs nation
- R+2.9
- Lead
- 3,254
- Total
- 20,121
- vs nation
- D+7.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+12.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 88,2912024 5-year
- Population density
- 306 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 288 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,8982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+22.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 37, OK · twin score 90.1
presidential history
Party record book
Arkansas 17th 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
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
87.1%
2,226 votes · D+74.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 85.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
61.1%
6,841 votes · R+22.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 59.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,858votes
43.0% of the vote · R+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,222 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
21,170votes
53.9% of the vote · R+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 21,025 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
John W. Davis1924
+71.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +69.5 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+19.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +17.4 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 | R | 36.9%13,405 | 63.1%22,902 | 36,307 |
| 2020 | R | 38.7%14,502 | 61.3%23,017 | 37,519 |
Arkansas 17th State Senate District sits in the Mid-South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 22.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.5 points.
A population of 88,291, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,898 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 37 and State Senate District 42.
The state-senate 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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