One moment…
One moment…
Benton County's 2020→2024 trajectory in the context of its longer arc since 2008 and its parent geographies.
Scroll to read the full answer
Benton barely moved between 2020 and 2024 — R+27.0 against R+26.4, a 0.5-point drift right that runs counter to Arkansas's 3.0-point rightward shift over the same cycles. The real swing came earlier: the county moved 9.0 points left from 2016 to 2020, and 2024 just held that new floor. Even at R+27.0, Benton sits 25.5 points to the right of the national R+1.4 result, so the county's politics are anchored by parent-state gravity rather than by anything that shifted in the last cycle.
Headline numbers at a glance
Benton County moved just 0.5 points right between 2020 and 2024, finishing at R+27.0 after R+26.4 — a near-flat result over the cycle. The county's lean score sits at R+28.1, with 2024 turnout at 32.2%.
Where the answer lives
Benton in Arkansas, drawn against the state outline.
Cycle-by-cycle arc
Shifted 9.6 pts right across 16 years.
Population, income, education
Benton County is 82.1% non-Hispanic white across 153,000 people, with a Hispanic share of 8.8%. Median household income sits at $40,281 and 20.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, with 6.4% foreign-born and a poverty rate of 10.1%. No parent-geography race breakdown is available in this cut, so contrasts against Arkansas overall aren't quantified here.
Against county, state, and national
| Geography | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 | Change since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton | R+35.4 | R+26.4 | R+27.0 | +9.6 pts |
| Arkansas | R+27.8 | R+27.6 | R+30.6 | -2.9 pts |
| AR-3 | R+28.6 | R+23.4 | R+24.8 | +3.8 pts |
| United States | D+2.1 | D+4.5 | R+1.4 | -3.5 pts |
Akashic Atlas, "Benton County's 2020→2024 trajectory in the context of its longer arc since 2008 and its parent geographies", answer ID vXKLw8q3DzbU, generated 2026-04-29, retrieved 2026-04-30. https://akashicedge.com/atlas/a/vXKLw8q3DzbU
Atlas answered this. Ask a follow-up.