The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. The 46th and current governor is Asa Hutchinson R. Hutchinson succeeded Mike Beebe D , who was barred by term limits from running for a third consecutive term in the governor's office in the elections.
Arkansas Constitution, Article 6, Section 2. The supreme executive power of this State shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled "the Governor of the State of Arkansas. Under Article VI, Section 11 of the Constitution , the governor may not hold any federal office, any civil or military commission, any office in another state, or any other office in Arkansas concurrently with his or her gubernatorial term.
Per Article VI, Section 5 , the governor must be at least 30 years old, an American citizen, and a resident of Arkansas for at least seven years on election day. Constitution of Arkansas, Article 6, Section No member of Congress, or other person holding office under the authority of this State, or of the United States, shall exercise the office of Governor, except as herein provided.
Constitution of Arkansas, Article 6, Section 5. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor except a citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of thirty years, and shall have been seven years a resident of this State. Arkansas elects governors during federal midterm election years e. The gubernatorial inauguration is always set for the second Tuesday in January following the election. If two candidates are tied after the general election, then a joint session of the legislature will choose the winner by simple balloting when the Arkansas State Legislature convenes.
Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. There were no incumbents in this race. Arkansas Constitution of , Amendment The chart below shows the partisan breakdown of Arkansas governors from to Details of vacancy appointments are addressed under Article 6, Sections 12 to If the elected governor resigns, dies, is removed, or is otherwise unable to discharge the office, the lieutenant governor is the first to succeed, serving as the governor until an election is held.
The lieutenant governor also serves as acting governor if the incumbent is temporarily unable to exercise the office. The next in line is the speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives. In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor also serves as the president of the Arkansas State Senate.
If the next scheduled general election is more than 12 months away when the acting governor assumes office, she or he must call a special election, with a minimum of 60 days notice, run according to the same rules that administer a regular election.
The governor is the commander-in-chief of all the state's military and naval forces except when either force is already under federal command. The governor must deliver periodic traditionally annual addresses to the legislature. These "State of the State" speeches concern the condition of the state and includes the governor's recommendation for specific policies and steps.
He is required to deliver one such address at the end of his official term. The governor has veto power over all legislative actions, including appropriation bills, concurrent orders and resolutions. In the case of orders and resolutions, the gubernatorial veto does not extend to an order to adjourn the legislature. Lawmakers may override a gubernatorial veto by a simple majority of both houses.
The Arkansas Constitution grants the governor, "power to grant reprieves, commutations of sentence, and pardons, after conviction; and to remit fines and forfeitures, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by law.
In cases of treason, the governor may grant reprieves with the advice and consent of the Senate. The governor must inform the legislature each time she or he grants a pardon, along with the reason for doing so. Note: Ballotpedia's state executive officials project researches state official websites for information that describes the divisions if any exist of a state executive office. That information for the Governor of Arkansas has not yet been added.
After extensive research we were unable to identify any relevant information on state official websites. The state operates on a biennial budget cycle. The sequence of key events in the budget process is as follows: [5] [6]. Arkansas is one of 44 states in which the governor has line item veto authority. The governor is required by statute to submit a balanced budget. The legislature is not legally required to pass a balanced budget.
The compensation of all state constitutional officers is set by Amendment 70 to the Arkansas Constitution , which was amended in by Arkansas voters who passed the Elected Officials Ethics, Transparency and Financial Reform Amendment. A commission was established under this amendment to set and approve new salaries for public officials in Arkansas.
Some on the panel criticized the majority, saying that they ignored public opposition to the plan. The five members of the commission who voted for the raise responded that they had followed the text of the amendment that had set up the commission and that "the vast of majority of people [in Arkansas] that are not commenting are reasonably comfortable and satisfied with this.
The first Arkansas Constitution , ratified in , established four-year terms for governors and the requirement that they be residents of the state for 10 years before election.
The fifth constitution in , following the American Civil War and Reconstruction, limited the executive's power while lowering gubernatorial terms to two years and changing the residency requirement to seven years. Amendment 63 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in , increased the terms of both the governor and lieutenant governor to four years. A referendum in limited a governor to two consecutive four-year terms.
From , the Democratic Party was the majority in the Arkansas State House of Representatives for the first 21 years while the Republicans were the majority for the last year.
The Arkansas State House is one of 18 state Houses that was Democratic for more than 80 percent of the years between The final year of the study depicted a shift in the Arkansas House of Representatives which changed to Republican control for the first time. Across the country, there were Democratic and Republican State Houses of Representatives from to Over the course of the year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan.
At the outset of the study period , 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied. The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of Arkansas , the Arkansas State Senate and the Arkansas House of Representatives from to The chart below depicts the partisanship of the Arkansas state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied.
For the SQLI, the states were ranked from , with 1 being the best and 50 the worst. Arkansas has never had a Republican trifecta, but did have two Democratic trifectas, between and and also between and Arkansas has ranked in the bottom of the SQLI ranking for each year of the study.
His platform includes criminal justice reform, and a focus on healthcare and foreign policy, according to his candidate Twitter page. During his tenure with the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, Jones worked with students to help them develop technical skills, pair them with mentors and improve their literacy.
He was also responsible for organizing members of the hub to make and supply PPE. Jones said that if he were elected his priorities would be infrastructure, economic development, and education.
He runs an outpatient mental health clinic in Little Rock. Rutledge was elected attorney general in and won re-election in She is the first Republican and first female elected attorney general of Arkansas. In her first four years as attorney general, Rutledge says she had more Medicaid fraud convictions than the previous 16 years combined.
Rutledge has also defended the state's abortion restrictions and its efforts to execute multiple inmates before a lethal injection drug expired in Rutledge served as Deputy Counsel in the Office of Gov.
During her time in Washington, D. She is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee and was the first working mother and the third woman to serve as White House press secretary. Sanders has previously worked in leadership roles for U.
In Arkansas, she was a senior advisor to U. Tom Cotton in when he defeated incumbent Democratic U. Mark Pryor, and she was campaign manager for U.
John Boozman in when he defeated incumbent Democratic U.
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