Arkansas's 1st congressional district

Arkansas's 1st congressional district
Arkansas's 1st congressional district
Representative
	Rick Crawford; R–Jonesboro
Area	17,521 sq mi (45,380 km2)
Distribution	55.5% rural; 44.5% urban;
Population (2019)	719,048
Median household; income	$43,193
Ethnicity	80.2% White; 16.6% Black; 1.9% Hispanic; 0.9% other; 0.4% Native American; 0.3% Asian;
Occupation	48.8% White-collar; 35% Blue-collar; 16.2% Gray-collar;
Cook PVI	R+17

Arkansas's 1st congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The district is in the eastern part of the state. The counties in the district are Arkansas, Baxter, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Desha, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, Prairie, Randolph, Saint Francis, Searcy, Sharp, Stone, and Woodruff. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district is represented by Republican Rick Crawford. When Crawford was elected in 2010 he was the first Republican to represent the district since 1875.

Election history change

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Marion Berry	129,701	67%
	Republican	Tommy F. Robinson	64,357	33%
Majority			65,344	33%
Total votes			194,058	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Marion Berry	162,388	67%
	Republican	Vernon Humphrey	81,556	33%
Majority			80,832	33%
Total votes			243,944	100.00
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Marion Berry	127,577	69%
	Republican	Mickey Stumbaugh	56,611	31%
Majority			70,966	39%
Total votes			184,188	100.00%
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Robert Marion Berry	124,304	100%
Majority				100%
Total votes			124,304	100%
	Democratic hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Rick Crawford	93,224	52%
	Democratic	Chad Causey	78,267	43%
	Green	Ken Adler	8,320	5%
	Write-in	Write-in	205	0.11%
Majority			14,957	9%
Total votes			180,016	100.00%
	Republican gain from Democratic

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Rick Crawford	138,800	56%
	Democratic	Scott Ellington	96,601	39%
	Libertarian	Jessica Paxton	6,427	3%
	Green	Jacob Holloway	5,015	2%
Majority			42,199	17.10%
Total votes			246,843	100.00%
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Rick Crawford	124,139	63%
	Democratic	Jackie McPherson	63,555	32%
	Libertarian	Brian Scott Willhite	8,562	5%
Majority			60,584	31%
Total votes			196,256	100.00%
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2016^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Rick Crawford	183,866	76.28%
	Libertarian	Mark West	57,181	23.72%
Majority			126,685	52.56%
Total votes			241,047	100.00%
	Republican hold

The 2018 election was held on November 6, 2018.

Arkansas' 1st congressional district, 2018
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Rick Crawford (incumbent)	138,757	68.9
	Democratic	Chintan Desai	57,907	28.8
	Libertarian	Elvis Presley	4,581	2.3
Total votes			201,245	100.0
	Republican hold

Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District House Election, 2020
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Rick Crawford (incumbent)	237,596	100.0
Total votes			237,596	100.0
	Republican hold

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
↑ "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.
↑ 2016 election results