Arkansas’s congressional map was enacted by statute in October 2021 and remains in effect after multiple court challenges failed. The General Assembly approved identical bills (SB 743) redefining the four districts; Governor Asa Hutchinson allowed them to become law without his signature on October 13, 2021, and the plan took effect as Act 1116. Subsequent lawsuits targeted the Pulaski County split and alleged racial gerrymandering. Two early cases were dismissed, and in June 2025, a three-judge court granted summary judgment to the state and rejected the racial-gerrymander and intentional-discrimination claims in Christian Ministerial Alliance v. Thurston. The result is that Arkansas’s 2021 congressional plan remains in place.

State legislative maps followed the constitutionally prescribed Board of Apportionment process. The three-member board adopted new House and Senate plans on November 29, 2021, after public comment, as required under state law, they became operative 30 days later for the 2022 cycle. Advocacy groups challenged the House plan under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, but the district court dismissed the case for lack of a private right of action. The Eighth Circuit affirmed that ruling on November 20, 2023. Those decisions left the board-adopted legislative districts in force.