2010 Arkansas Senate election
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Elections to the Arkansas Senate were held on November 2, 2010, to elect 17 candidates to the chamber. Members of the Arkansas Senate serve staggered four-year terms, with these seat's last elections taking place in 2006. In a national election characterized as a "red wave", Democrats lost seven of their fifteen state senate seats up for election to the Republicans, ending their supermajority status and leaving them with a narrow majority of three seats. Every seat won by a Democrat was not contested by a Republican.
This election took place alongside races for U.S. President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, state house, and numerous other state and local elections.
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