Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Sunday afternoon that she has scheduled March 3 special elections for the District 26 Senate seat previously held by state Sen. Gary Stubblefield, R-Branch, and for the District 70 House seat previously held by state Rep.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has set new dates for Arkansas Senate and House special elections in Districts 26 and 70 amid legal disputes over the original timelines.

Gov. Sanders has set dates for special elections in House District 70 and Senate District 26 to comply with the circuit court's Oct. 31 ruling.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the date for two special elections to fill vacant seats in the Arkansas State Senate and House of Representatives.They will be held March 3. This is for the vacant House of Representatives seat for District 70 and the vacant Senate seat for District 26.

While Sanders issued the dates to comply with a court order, she continued to contest the ruling, calling it "unlawful."

Top races that will be up for consideration in November 2026 will be Arkansas's next governor, lieutenant governor, U.S. representatives and senators, and more.

Sanders’ declarations resetting the election dates were distinctly combative in tone, casting the governor as the victim of rogue judges who Sanders accused of “intentionally ignoring statutory requirements” and “substitut[ing] judicially invented election policy for the General Assembly’s lawfully enacted statutes.

Election season has arrived, and we now have a good idea who's running next year. The flurry of filings closed today at noon.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the first to file for the November 2026 election, followed by other candidates for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Arkansas House, and Arkansas Senate.

The special election for Arkansas Senate District 26 will have at least five GOP candidates and one independent candidate. Wade Dunn of Greenwood will run as a Republican, and