United States House of Representatives elections in Arkansas, 2014

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	2014 U.S. Senate Elections

The 2014 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arkansas took place on November 4, 2014. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's four congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
March 3, 2014	May 20, 2014	November 4, 2014

Primary: A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Arkansas utilizes an open primary system. Registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.^[1]^[2]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

Voter registration: To vote in the primary, voters had to register to vote by April 20, 2014. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 5, 2014.^[3]

See also: Arkansas elections, 2014

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 4 election, the Republican Party held all four of the congressional seats from Arkansas.

Members of the U.S. House from Arkansas -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2014	After the 2014 Election
	Democratic Party	0	0
	Republican Party	4	4
Total		4	4

Incumbents

Heading into the 2014 election, the incumbents for the four congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Rick Crawford	Republican	1
Tim Griffin	Republican	2
Steve Womack	Republican	3
Tom Cotton	Republican	4

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 4 seats up for election in 2014 in Arkansas. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the two candidates who received the most votes. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100 percent.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
District 1	Rick Crawford	30.9%	196,256	Jackie McPherson
District 2	French Hill	8.3%	237,330	Patrick Hays
District 3	Steve Womack	58.8%	190,935	Grant Brand
District 4	Bruce Westerman	11.2%	206,131	James Lee Witt