The 2020 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary took place on March 3, 2020, as one of 15 contests scheduled on Super Tuesday in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, following the South Carolina primary the weekend before. The Arkansas primary was an open primary, with the state awarding 36 delegates towards the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 31 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.

Former vice president Joe Biden won every county but Washington County, home to the University of Arkansas, and received 41% of the vote and 17 delegates, far ahead of senator Bernie Sanders' 22% and former mayor Michael Bloomberg's 17%, who won 9 and 5 delegates respectively. Senator Elizabeth Warren did not pass the 15% threshold.

Procedure Arkansas was one of 14 states and one territory holding primaries on March 3, 2020, also known as "Super Tuesday", having joined other states on the date after the signing of a bill calling for simultaneous state, local, and presidential primaries on the first Tuesday in March in presidential election years by governor Asa Hutchinson on March 21, 2019.

In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the congressional district or statewide level in order to be considered viable. The 31 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between 4 and 6 were allocated to each of the state's 4 congressional districts and another 4 were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to 7 at-large delegates. The Super Tuesday primary as part of Stage I on the primary timetable received no bonus delegates, in order to disperse the primaries between more different date clusters and keep too many states from hoarding on the first shared date or on a March date in general.

The congressional district caucus and state conventions were all held virtually on May 30, 2020, as a "first-in-the-nation virtual convention" in Little Rock, to vote on all pledged degates from district-level and statewide level. The delegation also included 5 unpledged PLEO delegates: 5 members of the Democratic National Committee. Pledged nationalconvention delegates Type CD1 4 CD2 6 CD3 5 CD4 5 4 At-large 7 Total pledged delegates 31

Candidates The following people have filed for the presidential primary.

Running

Joe Biden Michael Bloomberg Mosie Boyd Tulsi Gabbard Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren

Withdrawn

Michael Bennet Cory Booker Steve Bullock Pete Buttigieg Julian Castro John Delaney Kamala Harris Amy Klobuchar Joe Sestak Tom Steyer Marianne Williamson Andrew Yang

Polling Polling Aggregation Source of poll aggregation Dateupdated Datespolled JoeBiden MichaelBloomberg BernieSanders ElizabethWarren TulsiGabbard Other/Undecided270 to Win270 to Win March 3, 2020 February 6–March 2, 2020 27.7% 22.3% 18.7% 11.3% 0.5% 19.5%RealClear PoliticsRealClear Politics March 3, 2020 Insufficient recent polling to supply an average.FiveThirtyEightFiveThirtyEight March 3, 2020 until March 2, 2020 27.5% 21.0% 18.1% 12.5% 0.3% 20.6% Average 27.6% 21.65% 18.4% 11.9% 0.4% 20.05% Arkansas primary results (March 3, 2020) 40.5% 16.7% 22.4% 10.0% 0.7% 9.7% Tabulation of individual polls of the 2020 Arkansas Democratic Primary Poll source Date(s)administered Samplesize Margin JoeBiden MichaelBloomberg PeteButtigieg BernieSanders ElizabethWarren Other Undecided Mar 1–2, 2020 Buttigieg and Klobuchar withdraw from the raceSwayableSwayable Mar 1–2, 2020 714 (LV) ± 6.0% 28% 25% 8% 17% 10% 13% –Data for ProgressData for Progress Feb 28–Mar 2, 2020 300 (LV) ± 5.6% 36% 22% 2% 23% 15% 2% –The Progress Campaign (D)The Progress Campaign (D)Feb 21–25, 2020209 (RV)± 4.9%17%17%18%19%12%6%10%Hendrix College/Talk Business & PoliticsHendrix College/Talk Business & PoliticsFebruary 6–7, 2020496 (LV)± 4.3%18.5%19.6%15.5%16.4% 8.9%10.1%11%

Results

2020 Arkansas Democratic presidential primary Candidate Votes % Delegates Joe Biden 93,012 40.59 17 Bernie Sanders 51,413 22.44 9 Michael Bloomberg 38,312 16.72 5 Elizabeth Warren 22,971 10.03 rowspan="15" Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) 7,649 3.34 Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn) 7,009 3.06 Tom Steyer (withdrawn) 2,053 0.90 Tulsi Gabbard 1,593 0.70 Kamala Harris (withdrawn) 715 0.31 Andrew Yang (withdrawn) 715 0.31 Michael Bennet (withdrawn) 574 0.25 Cory Booker (withdrawn) 572 0.25 Marianne Williamson (withdrawn) 501 0.22 Steve Bullock (withdrawn) 485 0.21 John Delaney (withdrawn) 443 0.19 Joe Sestak (withdrawn) 408 0.18 Julian Castro (withdrawn) 304 0.13 Other candidate 393 0.17 Total 229,122 100% 31

Results by county +2020 Arkansas Democratic primary