Arkansas § 7-8-201 - Preferential elections required — Apportionment of delegates.
Full text of Arkansas Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated § 7-8-201 — Preferential elections required — Apportionment of delegates., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 7-8-201. Preferential elections required — Apportionment of delegates.
Each political party in the state desiring to select delegates to attend a quadrennial national nominating convention of the party to select a nominee for the office of President of the United States shall hold a preferential primary election in the state, and the delegates to the national party convention shall be apportioned to the presidential candidates whose names were on the ballot at the preferential primary or to “uncommitted” in the proportion that the votes cast for each candidate or for “uncommitted” bear to the total votes cast at the election, rounded to the closest whole number.
Source: official Arkansas text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 7-8-201 ("Preferential elections required — Apportionment of delegates.") is part of the Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated, the codified statutory law of Arkansas. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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