The
Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the
Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. The 35-member Senate consists of twenty-two
Republicans and thirteen
Democrats. There are eight women, twenty-seven men, thirty-one
White Americans, and four African Americans.