Sheriff Election — Howard County, Arkansas
Howard Sheriff · the arena · a southwest county hires this desk in 2026 · in Nashville, Arkansas
The 2026 oval in Nashville, Arkansas, not Broadway, not Ellicott City
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 Howard County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
Nashville, Arkansas, hires a Sheriff for the timber road and a forty-one-bed 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. Nine justices of the peace sit on a two-year clock — not this oval. The County Judge is four years — not this oval. A Tennessee rumor does not hire this badge. Center Point is not the hall. Dierks is a city, not the hall. Little Rock is still the capital.
Absentee with the County Clerk on North Main, not Isaac Perkins as this clerk, not Tennessee
Absentee and voter registration for this county sit with the County Clerk at 421 North Main Street, Room 10, Nashville, AR 71852 (phone 870-845-7500, ext. 2). Circuit Clerk is a separate desk in the same hall. That is not 101 Isaac Perkins as the clerk, not a Tennessee election commission as a substitute for this absentee desk, not a Maryland board as this clerk. Confirm registration, sample ballot, and absentee on sos.arkansas.gov/elections and VoteView.
Sample ballot in Nashville, Arkansas, not Nashville, Tennessee
Do not take names from a Tennessee rumor, a Maryland Howard card, a Dierks city flyer, or a Center Point postcard as if it hired this county badge.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Arkansas Secretary of State
- Voter lookup
- Current Sheriff of record — official Howard County, Arkansas, Sheriff listing
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
What you are hiring — southwest patrol and a forty-one-bed house
You are hiring the Sheriff of Howard County, Arkansas — unincorporated patrol, warrants, civil process, courthouse security at 421 North Main, and the forty-one-bed house this office still holds at 101 Isaac Perkins. You are not hiring Nashville, Arkansas, PD. You are not hiring a Tennessee Sheriff. You are not hiring Howard County, Maryland. You are not hiring the Governor.
Read the office page for 101 Isaac Perkins as this door, Nashville, Arkansas, as the seat, Music City as not the hall, and Center Point as not the hall now.
Remedy when a writ misses Dierks
A bad service or a paper that missed Mineral Springs remainder or Umpire — this Sheriff’s door and the courts. Nine JPs are not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not Tennessee. Not Nashville, Arkansas, City Hall as this oval.
Relief when U.S. 278 ices toward Sevier
Ice on U.S. 278 or U.S. 371, a wreck toward Dierks remainder, a night road toward Mineral Springs, fog on the Sevier line — this county’s mutual aid first. Hempstead is a different count. Pike is a different count. Sevier is a different count. Nashville, Arkansas, city hall is a different government.
Service — papers on the timber road, a North Main docket, a Dierks night shift
Papers. A Nashville, Arkansas, courtroom. Night hours the office actually posts. 911 on an unincorporated U.S. 371 frontage remains this badge. County detention remains the house this badge still holds on Isaac Perkins.
Due process does not wait for a Tennessee rumor
A levy in unincorporated Howard still needs notice. Confirmation of sale is still the court. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed Nashville, Tennessee, or because a visitor photographed Ellicott City.
Rights from Mineral Springs remainder to the Polk line
Equal protection on the southwest map. Counsel. Property. Humane custody. A worker in Nashville, Arkansas, and a family in Dierks hire the same Sheriff.