United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014

United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014

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Nominee Tom Cotton Mark Pryor Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 478,819 334,174 Percentage 56.5% 39.4%
County results
U.S. Senator before election Mark Pryor Democratic Elected U.S. Senator Tom Cotton Republican

Mark Pryor
Democratic

Tom Cotton
Republican

The 2014 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Arkansas, concurrently with the election of the Governor of Arkansas, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Pryor ran for re-election to a third term in office. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary; U.S. Representative Tom Cotton was also unopposed for the Republican nomination. Cotton defeated Pryor by a wider-than-expected margin in the general election; most outlets called the race for Cotton within half an hour after the polls closed. This marks the first time since Reconstruction that Republicans hold both Senate seats in Arkansas, and where the Arkansas congressional delegation is entirely Republican. Elected at age 37, Cotton surpassed Connecticut's Chris Murphy as the youngest incumbent Senator.

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