Sheriff Election — Ouachita County, Arkansas
Ouachita Sheriff · the arena · a river-bluff county hires one desk in 2026 · in Camden, Arkansas · not in Camden, Alabama
The 2026 oval sits in Camden, Arkansas. It does not sit in Wilcox County. It does not sit in Ouachita Parish.
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 Ouachita County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
One Sheriff. Four years. El Dorado does not hire this badge. A Louisiana parish does not.
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. One sheriff for Ouachita County, Arkansas — not for Wilcox County, Alabama, not for Union County, not for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
- 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. Justices of the peace sit on a two-year clock — not this oval. The County Judge is four years — not this oval. An Alabama rumor does not hire this badge. Camden, Alabama, is a different state. Alabama’s vacancy is Governor appointment — not this statute. El Dorado is a different county. Bearden is a city, not the hall. Little Rock is still the capital. Monroe, Louisiana, is a different state.
Absentee is the County Clerk at 145 Jefferson. The jail is not the clerk.
Absentee and voter registration for this county sit with the County Clerk at 145 Jefferson Street, Camden, AR 71701 (phone 870-837-2220). Do not treat 109 Goodgame jail as the clerk. Do not treat a Wilcox County, Alabama, board of elections as a substitute for this absentee desk. Do not treat an Ouachita Parish Registrar as this board. Confirm registration, sample ballot, and absentee on sos.arkansas.gov/elections and VoteView.
Sample ballot in Camden, Arkansas. Not a Camden, Alabama, rumor.
Do not take names from an Alabama rumor, an El Dorado flyer, or a Bearden municipal card as if it hired this county badge.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Arkansas Secretary of State
- Voter lookup
- Current Sheriff of record — official Ouachita County, Arkansas, Sheriff listing
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
You are hiring Goodgame patrol and this county’s house. You are not hiring Wilcox County.
You are hiring the Sheriff of Ouachita County, Arkansas — unincorporated patrol on U.S. 79 and timber roads, warrants, civil process, courthouse security at 145 Jefferson, and detention this Sheriff still holds at 109 Goodgame Street, Camden, AR. You are not hiring Camden PD. You are not hiring Union’s Sheriff. You are not hiring Wilcox County, Alabama. You are not hiring the Governor.
Read the office page for 109 Goodgame as this jailer, Camden, Arkansas, as the seat, and Wilcox County as Alabama, not this house.
A missed writ in Stephens — this Sheriff and the 13th Circuit. Not Alabama. Not a parish.
A bad service or a paper that missed Bearden — this Sheriff’s door and the courts. The Quorum Court is not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not Alabama. Not El Dorado City Hall as this oval. Not a Louisiana parish Police Jury.
Ice on 278, a wreck on 79 — this count first. Union is a different count.
Ice on U.S. 278, a wreck on U.S. 79, fog on a timber road, a night crossing of the Ouachita — this county’s mutual aid first. Nevada is a different count. Dallas is a different count. Calhoun is a different count. Camden city hall is a different government. Alabama is a different state. Louisiana is a different state.
Papers at 109 Goodgame. Night hours the office posts. Confirm live beds.
Papers filed at 109 Goodgame Street. Night hours the office actually posts. 911 on an unincorporated U.S. 79 frontage remains this badge. County detention at 109 Goodgame remains this badge. ASA lists 200 beds; a 2026 survey cited 139 — confirm live. Wilcox County is not this house. Ouachita Parish is not this house.
Due process does not wait for a Camden, Alabama, postcard.
A levy in Stephens still needs notice. Confirmation of sale is still the court. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed Alabama, or because a visitor photographed Monroe, Louisiana, as if it were this hall.
Rights from Bearden to the Union line
Equal protection on the river bluff. Counsel. Property. Humane custody. A worker in Camden, Arkansas, and a family in Bearden hire the same Sheriff. A resident of El Dorado hires Union’s Sheriff. A resident of Camden, Alabama, hires Wilcox County. A resident of Monroe, Louisiana, hires Ouachita Parish.