Following a change to the law in 2025, Arkansas’s preferential primary elections and nonpartisan judicial elections no longer bounce between March and May depending on whether it is a presidential election year. The state’s primaries and judicial elections now occur in March of every even-numbered year, which means the candidate filing period is now in early November of each odd-numbered year.

This year, due to the deadline falling on Veterans Day, the candidate filing period for most candidates will run from noon on Nov. 3 until noon on Nov. 12 . With less than a month before that period opens, we thought it would be helpful to gather all of the contested races and races for open seats in federal races, state constitutional offices, and the state Legislature in one place.

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