Unofficial numbers representing the votes from Chicot County merged with those from around the state during the May 24 preferential primary and non-partisan elections.
U.S. Representative Rick Crawford is expected to clinch the Republican nomination for the first Congressional district in the Arkansas primary. He will face challenges by Democratic State Representative Monte Hodges and Independent candidate Roger B. Daugherty in November.
WASHINGTON The state's Republican primary on Tuesday will all but decide the next congressional delegation from Arkansas given the unlikelihood of Democratic upsets in November, according to political observers and strategists.
The campaign of Republican U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford is questioning the veteran status of his primary opponent Brandt Smith, disputing Smith's descriptions of his ties to the military.