2010Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
2010 election for Arkansas Senate District 19
Arkansas State Senate · Arkansas
Bill Sample (R) won with 56.6% of the vote, defeating Gene Shelby (D) by 14.2 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Bill SampleRepublican · winner
56.6%14,071
Gene ShelbyDemocrat
42.5%10,550
Write-ins and other votesOther party
0.9%221
24,842 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 2010
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET