§ Ark. Code § 7-5-106Runoff elections for county and municipal officers — Definition

(a) If there are more than two (2) candidates for election to any county elected office or
municipal office, including the office of justice of the peace, at any general election held in this
state and no candidate for the county elected office or municipal office receives a majority of the
votes cast for the county elected office or municipal office, there shall be a runoff general election
held in that county or municipality four (4) weeks following the date of the general election at
which the names of the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes, but not a
majority, shall be placed on the ballot to be voted upon by the qualified electors of the county or
the municipality.
(b) If two (2) candidates receive the highest number of votes and receive the same number of
votes, a tie is deemed to exist and the names of the two (2) candidates shall be placed on the runoff
general election ballot to be voted upon by the qualified electors of the county or the municipality,
as the case may be.
(c)(1) If there is one (1) candidate who receives the highest number of votes, but not a majority
of the votes, and two (2) other candidates receive the same number of votes for the next highest
number of votes cast, a tie is deemed to exist between the two (2) candidates.
(2) The county board of election commissioners shall determine the runoff candidate by lot at
a public meeting and in the presence of the two (2) candidates.
(d) If one (1) of the two (2) candidates who received the highest number of votes for a county
elected office or a municipal office but not a majority of the votes in a county for a county elected
office withdraws before certification of the result of the general election, the remaining candidate
who received the most votes at the general election shall be declared elected to the county elected
office or municipal office and there shall be no runoff general election.
(e)(1) The person receiving the majority of the votes cast for the county elected office or
municipal office at the runoff general election shall be declared elected.
(2) However, if the two (2) candidates seeking election to the same county elected office or
municipal office receive the same number of votes in the runoff general election, a tie is deemed
to exist, and the county board of election commissioners shall determine the winner of the runoff
general election by lot at an open public meeting and in the presence of the two (2) candidates.
(f)(1) As used in this section, “municipal office” means offices of cities of the first class and cities
of the second class and incorporated towns and includes the offices of council members, members
of boards of managers, or other elective municipal offices elected by the voters of the entire
municipality or from wards or districts within a municipality.
(2) “Municipal office” does not include offices of cities having a city manager form of
government.
(g) This section does not apply to election of members of the boards of directors and other
officials of cities having a city manager form of government.
(h) This section is intended to be in addition to and supplemental to the laws of this state
pertaining to the election of officers for county elected offices and municipal offices at general
elections.