Arkansas House of Representatives

Arkansas House of Representatives
95th Arkansas General Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	Members first elected on or before November 3, 2020: 16 years (consecutive or non-consecutive, both houses), eligible to run again 4 years after their last term ends. Members first elected after November 3, 2020: 12 years (consecutive, both houses), eligible to run again 4 years after their last term ends.
History
Founded	January 30, 1836 (1836-01-30)
New session started	January 15, 2025
Leadership
Speaker	Brian S. Evans (R) since January 15, 2025
Speaker pro tempore	Carlton Wing (R) since January 15, 2025
Majority Leader	Howard M. Beaty Jr. (R) since January 15, 2025
Minority Leader	Andrew Collins (D) since January 15, 2025
Structure
Seats	100
Political groups	Majority   Republican (81) Minority   Democratic (19)
Length of term	2 years
Authority	Article 8, Section 2, Arkansas Constitution
Salary	$39,399.84/year + per diem
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	November 5, 2024 (100 seats)
Next election	November 3, 2026 (100 seats)
Redistricting	Arkansas Board of Apportionment
Meeting place
House of Representatives Chamber Arkansas State Capitol Little Rock, Arkansas
Website
Arkansas House of Representatives

The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House has 100 members elected from an equal number of constituencies across the state. Each district has an average population of 30,137, according to the 2020 federal census. Members are elected to two-year terms and, since the 2014 Amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, limited to sixteen years cumulative in either house.^[1]

The Arkansas House of Representatives meets annually, in regular session in odd number years and for a fiscal session in even number years, at the State Capitol in Little Rock.^[2]