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Arkansas

Created by the Arkansas Stance on Science team. Please contact arkansasstanceonscience@gmail.com with any questions.

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Arkansas will face many challenges in the coming years, and it is increasingly critical that our policymakers understand the importance of evidence-based decision-making. The goals of this resource are to:

  1. Provide voters with clear, accessible information so they can see how candidates value science in decision-making.
  2. Hold candidates accountable by sharing their responses publicly on our website and via local media.
  3. Encourage thoughtful engagement between communities and policymakers on science policy-related topics in our state.

Through Stance on Science, we hope to help Arkansans understand how their elected representatives will utilize science to improve the state that they love. Learn more about this initiative on the home page.

How to use this resource

This webpage houses the responses to 3 questions crafted by the Arkansas Stance on Science team.

Only official candidates who will appear on ballots were contacted.

Candidates were contacted in August 2026 (with a follow-up to those who did not initially respond) and given the opportunity to answer all questions. Only the responses of candidates who answered the questions are included. None of the candidates' responses were modified in any way before being published on this resource page.

For the November 2026 general election, only candidates in the following elections were contacted:

US Senate general election
US House of Representative general election
  • District 1
  • District 2
  • District 3
  • District 4
Governor general election
The questions posed
  1. America has a growing AI industry, supporting cutting-edge innovation but raising issues of resource use, privacy, and economics. In your opinion, what are the costs and benefits of new data center construction in Arkansas and how would your policies accomplish a balance between them? (see "Artificial Intelligence")
  2. Making the US competitive in the bioeconomy (using technology applied to renewable biological resources to produce food, energy, and industrial goods) requires innovation and investments in business, academia, and government. Please describe policies you will support, if any, that relate to workforce development in Arkansas’ strengths such as agriculture and biotechnology; and explain their rationale. (see "Jobs and Workforce")
  3. What are your opinions on the current state of science literacy, and how could K-12 education standards be adapted to improve the public understanding of and relationship building in science? (see "K-12 Science Education")

Disclaimer

The responses of candidates shared on this webpage do not reflect the views of the Arkansas Stance on Science team or the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) Coalition. SNAP is a non-partisan organization (please see more about SNAP here). SNAP and the Arkansas Stance on Science team do not endorse any candidates. The goals of this initiative can be found here. Please contact arkansasstanceonscience@gmail.com with any questions.

To find your districts for state and federal races and see who is on your ballot, please visit the Arkansas Secretary of State "Voter View" website.

November 2026 general election

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