Arkansas's electoral votes in U.S. presidential elections 1836-2020
1872**), giving it a success rate of 58 percent. Arkansas has voted for the Democratic candidate in 33 elections, the Republican candidate in 11**, and the 1968 election was the only time where a third party candidate won Arkansas' electoral votes in a presidential election. Arkansas has generally voted for the more conservative candidate from the two major parties, making the transition from Democrat to Republican during the civil rights era in the 1960s. In the 2020 election, Donald Trump won the state comfortably with a 28 percent margin of the popular vote.
The U.S. presidential election has been contested in Arkansas on 45 occasions, and the Natural State has correctly voted for the winning candidate 26 times (not including in