Overview
- Late unofficial returns from Pulaski and Perry counties show Forrest with 32,439 votes to Jones’s 29,761 in the nonpartisan primary.
- Forrest carried Pulaski County 31,872 to 28,348, while Jones won Perry County 1,413 to 567 with all 17 precincts reporting.
- Arkansas Times reported Forrest defeated Jones and published photographs of supporters celebrating in Little Rock.
- Forrest, a defense attorney and small-business owner, campaigned on correcting leadership and management issues and on more strategic crime prevention.
- Jones emphasized his prosecutorial tenure and said the office worked through more than 5,000 cases delayed by the COVID-19 shutdown.