Arkansas's 4th congressional district

Arkansas's 4th congressional district
Arkansas's 4th congressional district
Representative
	Bruce Westerman; R–Hot Springs
Area	20,951 sq mi (54,260 km2)
Distribution	66.2% urban; 33.8% rural;
Population (2019)	701,945
Median household; income	$43,824
Ethnicity	71% White; 24.4% Black; 2.7% Hispanic; 0.5% Native American; 0.4% Asian; 0% other;
Cook PVI	R+17

Arkansas's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is the southwest part of the state and is the largest district. The cities in the district are Camden, Hope, Hot Springs, Magnolia, Pine Bluff, and Texarkana. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. Republican Bruce Westerman became the representative in 2014

Election history

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Michael Avery Ross*	119,633	60.56%
	Republican	Jay Dickey	77,904	39.44%
Majority			41,729	21.12%
Total votes			197,537	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Michael Avery Ross*	243,003	100.00%
Majority			243,003	100.00%
Total votes				100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Michael Avery Ross*	128,236	74.73%
	Republican	Joe Ross	43,360	25.27%
Majority			84,876	49.46%
Total votes			171,596	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Michael Avery Ross*	203,178	86.17%
	Green	J. Joshua Drake	32,603	13.83%
Majority			170,575	72.34%
Total votes			235,781	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Michael Avery Ross*	102,479	57.53%
	Republican	Beth Anne Rankin	71,526	40.15%
	Green	J. Joshua Drake	4,129	2.32%
Majority			30,953	17.38%
Total votes			178,134	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Tom Cotton	154,149	59.53%
	Democratic	Gene Jeffress	95,013	36.69%
	Libertarian	Bobby Tullis	4,984	1.92%
	Green	J. Joshua Drake	4,807	1.86%
Majority			59,136	22.84%
Total votes			258,953	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Bruce Westerman	110,789	54%
	Democratic	James Lee Witt	87,742	43%
	Libertarian	Ken Hamilton	7,598	3%
Majority			23,047	11%
Total votes			206,131	100.00%
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Bruce Westerman	182,885	75%
	Libertarian	Ken Hamilton	61,274	25%
Majority			121,611	50%
Total votes			244,159	100.00%
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2018^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bruce Westerman (incumbent)	136,740	66.74%
	Democratic	Hayden Shamel	63,984	31.23%
	Libertarian	Tom Canada	3,952	1.93%
	Write-in		216	0.11%
Total votes			204,892	100%
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District House Election, 2020
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bruce Westerman (incumbent)	191,617	69.7
	Democratic	William Hanson	75,750	27.5
	Libertarian	Frank Gilbert	7,668	2.8
Total votes			275,035	100.0
	Republican hold

↑ "My Congressional District".
↑ "My Congressional District".
↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
↑ "2018 Arkansas general election results". Arkansas Secretary of State. Retrieved June 9, 2019.