LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Tuesday special primary elections in Arkansas presented a clear winner in the District 70 House seat and a runoff ahead for the Senate District 26 seat with 100% of the precincts reported by the Arkansas Secretary of State.
North Little Rock’s District 70 held a primary to select the Democratic candidate to run against Republican Bo Renshaw on March 3, pitting Alex Holladay against Cordelia Smith-Johnson. Holladay won with 79.3% of the vote to Smith-Johnson’s 20.37% of the vote, out of 805 total votes.
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The House seat became open after former Republican Rep. Gus Wing resigned to take a position as head of Arkansas PBS, which is now Arkansas TV.
Holladay, who ran against Wing in 2024, suffered a narrow defeat of 7,255 votes to Wing’s 7,541 votes, a 51% to 49% defeat in that race. Neither candidate faced a primary challenge in that election…