This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arkansas was Nov. 12, 2025.

Eleven candidates — six Democrats and five Republicans — are running for Arkansas’ four U.S. House districts. That’s 2.8 candidates per district. There were 2.3 candidates per district in 2024, three in 2022, 1.8 in 2020, 3.3 in 2018, 1.5 in 2016, and 2.5 in 2014.

Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings:

• No districts are open this year, meaning all incumbents — four Republicans — are running for re-election. The last year there was an open district was 2014, when two were open.
• Three primaries — two Democratic and one Republican — are contested this year. In total, there was one contested primary in 2024, three in 2022, zero in 2020, three in 2018, one in 2016, and two in 2014.

• Four candidates — two Democrats and two Republicans — are running for the 2nd district, the most candidates running for a district this year.
• Rep. French Hill (R-2nd) is the only incumbent facing a primary challenger this year. There was one incumbent in a contested primary in 2024, three in 2022, none in 2020, two in 2018, one in 2016, and none in 2014.
• Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all four districts, meaning no districts are guaranteed to either party.

Arkansas and two other states — Texas and North Carolina — are holding U.S. House primaries on March 3, 2026. If needed, Arkansas will hold runoff elections on March 31, 2026.

In Arkansas, a primary candidate must win a majority of the votes cast for the office they seek to secure the nomination. If no candidate for an office wins a majority of votes cast in the primary, a runoff election between the top two vote-getters is held.