LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The 2024 election is officially over, so it's time to crunch some numbers and analyze voter turnout in Arkansas.
According to the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, fewer Arkansans turned out to vote in 2024 than in 2020. However, an analysis of the Secretary of State's election records said Arkansas's turnout rate was on par with 2016.
Unofficial numbers show Saline County topped this year's election list with a 71.66% voter turnout, the state's highest mark, and only a few hundred more voters than in 2020. The county had a population of 123,416 in the 2020 Census.
Nevada County was the only county with fewer than 50% of voters turning out.
The Secretary of State's Office reported that 64.94% of Arkansas's 1,828,133 registered voters turned out for early voting and Election Day voting as of Nov. 7. That represents 1,187,243 ballots cast.
Top 10 Arkansas counties for voter turnout
Unofficial numbers for the 2024 election as of Nov. 7
- Saline County — 71.66% (57,927 votes cast/80,841 registered voters)
- Grant County — 71.04% (8.108 votes cast/11,414 registered voters)
- Calhoun County — 71.03% (2,096 votes cast/2,951 registered voters)
- Cleburne County — 70.29% (12,804 votes cast/18,215 registered voters)
- Little River County — 70.18% (4,909 votes cast/6,995 registered voters)
- Montgomery County — 70.03% (3,709 votes cast/5,296 registered voters)
- Faulkner County — 69.94% (54,709 votes cast/78,220 registered voters)
- Cleveland County — 69.75% (3,385 votes cast/4,853 registered voters)
- Stone County — 69.63% (6,024 votes cast/8,652 registered voters)
- Carroll County — 69.29% (11,522 votes cast/16,629 registered voters)
Bottom 10 Arkansas counties for voter turnout
Unofficial numbers for the 2024 election as of Nov. 7
- Nevada County — 49.95% (2,867 votes cast/5,740 registered voters)
- Desha County — 50.30% (3,508 votes cast/6,974 registered voters)
- Crittenden County — 52.09% (14,743 votes cast/28,301 registered voters)
- Mississippi County — 53.39% (10,699 votes cast/20,039 registered voters)
- Ouachita County — 54.14% (8,628 votes cast/15,935 registered voters)
- Woodruff County — 55.53% (2,324 votes cast/4,185 registered voters)
- Dallas County — 55.62% (2,332 votes cast/4,193 registered voters)
- Phillips County — 55.73% (4,933 votes cast/8,852 registered voters)
- Union County — 55.67% (15,509 votes cast/27,366 registered voters)
- Izard County — 56.82% (5,594 votes cast/10,487 registered voters)
Arkansas voter turnout comparison to previous years
- 2024 — 64.94% (1,187,243 votes cast/1,828,133 registered voters)
- 2022 — 50.81% (914,227 votes cast/1,799,136 registered voters)
- 2020 — 66.92% (1,223,777 votes cast/1,828,811 registered voters)
- 2018 — 50.38% (898,793 votes cast/1,784,015 registered voters)
- 2016 — 64.65% (1,137,772 votes cast/1,759,974 registered voters)
- 2014 — 50.43% (852,642 votes cast/1,690,577 registered voters)
- 2012 — 66.65% (1,078,548 votes cast/1,618,320 registered voters)
- 2010 — 47.61% (779,957 votes cast/1,638,135 registered voters)
- 2008 — 64.52% (1,086,617 votes cast/1,684,240 registered voters)