- Lead
- 13,598
- Total
- 37,729
- vs nation
- R+34.6
Arkansas 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,183
- Total
- 34,574
- vs nation
- R+39.7
- Lead
- 11,559
- Total
- 28,357
- vs nation
- R+42.9
- Lead
- 11,540
- Total
- 25,389
- vs nation
- R+49.3
- Lead
- 10,302
- Total
- 24,438
- vs nation
- R+49.4
- Lead
- 9,580
- Total
- 22,431
- vs nation
- R+40.3
- Lead
- 7,337
- Total
- 17,751
- vs nation
- R+41.9
- Lead
- 3,738
- Total
- 14,684
- vs nation
- R+34.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+36.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,0342024 5-year
- Population density
- 148 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 567 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,7122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.7 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, OK · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
Arkansas 35th 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
William J. Bryan1896
63.5%
694 votes · D+27.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 63.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
82.3%
6,684 votes · R+64.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 79.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,499votes
30.5% of the vote · R+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,648 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
25,097votes
66.5% of the vote · R+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 22,831 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
William J. Bryan1896
+33.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+27.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +15.4 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
+54.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.0 · U.S. D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +49.4 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 | 37.2%11,682 | 62.8%19,720 | 31,402 |
| 2020 | R | 39.0%11,852 | 61.0%18,575 | 30,427 |
Arkansas 35th State Senate District sits in the Mid-South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 64.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.0 points.
A population of 84,034, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,712 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 11.
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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Arkansas 35th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/05035/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.