{"id":630,"date":"2025-12-17T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:41:26","slug":"special-election-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/?page_id=630","title":{"rendered":"Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Special Election House District 44 &#8211; Tuesday, June 2, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representative Stan Berry passed away on March 23, 2026. He was serving his seventh term in the Arkansas House. A special election is being held to fill his seat for the remainder of the term and the next two-year term. Four candidates filed to succeed the late Rep. Berry. The Special Primary Election will take place on June 2, with early voting starting on May 26, 2026. All four candidates had the opportunity to fill out the Arkansas Voter&#8217;s Guide, and you can see their answers below. One candidate refused to fill out the survey. <br><br>To learn more about the candidates and read their bios, visit the &#8220;Candidates&#8221; page for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\"  class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Special-Election-House-District-44.docx-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Special Election - House District 44.docx (2).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-fbfc5b3c-5893-46f5-a9dc-d57e400a557e\" href=\"https:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Special-Election-House-District-44.docx-2.pdf\">Special Election &#8211; House District 44.docx (2)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Special-Election-House-District-44.docx-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-fbfc5b3c-5893-46f5-a9dc-d57e400a557e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Election House District 44 &#8211; Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Representative Stan Berry passed away on March 23, 2026. He was serving his seventh term in the Arkansas House. A special election is being held to fill his seat for the remainder of the term and the next two-year term. Four candidates filed to succeed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arkansasvotersguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}