Political newcomer Bart Hester topped current Rep. Tim Summers in the District 1 state Senate race. The former University of Arkansas baseball player garnered 53 percent of the vote to Summers’ 46 percent. The totals were 4,170 votes for Hester and 3.669 for Summers in Benton County. In Washington County, Hester won 336 votes, while [...]

Bentonville residents were still being allowed to vote at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church on J Street, according to county Election Commissioner John Brown Jr. The location had a long line with a wait of more than an hour at 7 p.m., just 30 minutes before polls were set to close. Brown said [...]

Republican politicians filled the Vendor Club at Simmons Suites in Bentonville to await election returns Tuesday night. Among the guests watching early vote totals scroll through two large-screen television screens were Benton County Judge Bob Clinard, Rep. Mary Lou Slinkard, R-Gravette, Justice of the Peace candidate Duane Neal, Justice of the Peace candidate Frank Winscott, [...]

Some problems cropped up today at at least one Benton County polling place. “If lines are this long everywhere, they goofed,” said a man who asked not to be identified. He said he previously voted at a local Church of Christ before polling places were consolidated this election cycle. Denise Conyers also voted at the [...]