Sheriff Election — Garland County, Arkansas
Garland Sheriff · the arena · the Ouachita foothill county hires this desk in 2026 · in Hot Springs, Arkansas · Little Rock remains the capital
The 2026 oval in Hot Springs, not Little Rock as this hall, not a spa
This page is the arena for this office. Unique teaching for the job lives on the office twin. The county as a place is taught at Garland County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
Hot Springs hires a Sheriff for the lake roads and the Albert Pike house
Arkansas Constitution Article 7, § 46: four years. Sheriff sits on the gubernatorial table. Amendment 95 moved the desk from two years to four beginning 2018.
- Preferential primary: Tuesday, 3 March 2026 (already sat).
- Primary runoff: Tuesday, 31 March 2026 (already sat where needed).
- General: Tuesday, 3 November 2026.
- County/municipal runoff: Tuesday, 1 December 2026 if this race needs one.
- Take office: Ark. Code § 21-1-102 — Thursday, 1 January 2027.
- Vacancy: Quorum Court appointment within thirty days (§ 14-14-1310). Not the Governor.
The Governor is 2026. That is not this oval. Thirteen justices of the peace sit on a two-year clock — not this oval. The County Judge is four years — not this oval. A Texas rumor does not hire this badge. Hot Springs is a city and the seat, not the capital. Mountain Pine is a city, not the hall. Hot Springs Village is not the hall. Little Rock is still the capital. The National Park does not hire this badge.
Absentee with the County Clerk on 501 Ouachita, not 525 Ouachita, not Albert Pike
Absentee and voter registration for this county sit with the County Clerk at 501 Ouachita Avenue, Room 103, Hot Springs, AR 71901 (phone 501-622-3617). That is not 525 Ouachita as the clerk, not 3564 Albert Pike, not a park visitor center, not a Texas board of elections as a substitute for this absentee desk. Confirm registration, sample ballot, and absentee on sos.arkansas.gov/elections and VoteView.
Sample ballot in Hot Springs, not Garland, Texas, not Malvern
Do not take names from a Texas rumor, a Hot Spring County (Malvern) card, a city Board of Directors flyer, or a spa brochure as if it hired this county badge.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Arkansas Secretary of State
- Voter lookup
- Current Sheriff of record — official Garland County, Arkansas, Sheriff listing
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
What you are hiring — remainder patrol and a 2015 county house
You are hiring the Sheriff of Garland County, Arkansas — unincorporated patrol, warrants, civil process, courthouse security at 501 Ouachita, and Adult Detention at 3564 Albert Pike. You are not hiring Hot Springs PD. You are not hiring Village police. You are not hiring park rangers. You are not hiring ADC. You are not hiring the Governor.
Read the office page for 525 Ouachita as this door, Hot Springs as the seat not the capital, Albert Pike as this jailer, and the Park as federal, not this badge.
Remedy when a writ misses Mountain Pine remainder
A bad service or a paper that missed Mountain Pine remainder — this Sheriff’s door and the courts. Thirteen JPs are not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not a spa. Not Hot Springs City Hall as this oval.
Relief when Lake Hamilton leaves the banks or U.S. 70 ices
High water on Lake Hamilton or Lake Ouachita, a wreck on U.S. 70, a night road toward Jessieville, fog on the Montgomery line — this county’s mutual aid first. Saline is a different count. Hot Spring County is a different count. Montgomery is a different count. Hot Springs city hall is a different government. The Park is a different sovereign.
Service — papers on a lake road, an Ouachita Avenue docket, an Albert Pike night shift
Papers. A Hot Springs courtroom that happens to sit inside a national park boundary. Night hours the office actually posts. 911 on an unincorporated U.S. 270 frontage remains this badge. County detention remains 3564 Albert Pike — not a bathhouse, not Malvern ADC.
Due process does not wait for a spa rumor
A levy in Fountain Lake country still needs notice. Confirmation of sale is still the court. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed a bathhouse, or because a visitor photographed Little Rock.
Rights from Mountain Pine remainder to the Saline line
Equal protection on the Ouachita map. Counsel. Property. Humane custody. A worker in Hot Springs and a family on a lake road hire the same Sheriff.