--- title: "Green vs. Crawford: 2026 Arkansas’ 1st District race" url: "https://www.2026election.com/race/2026-house-ar-01" updated: "2026-08-01" source: "Candidates' campaign sites and Ballotpedia, quoted verbatim" publisher: "Pluribus" --- # 2026 Arkansas’ 1st District race: Terri Yarbrough Green (D) vs. Rick Crawford (R) Rating: Safe R · Election: November 3, 2026 · Ballot checked: October 9, 2026 · Positions captured: August 1, 2026 In Arkansas' 1st Congressional District, eight-term incumbent Republican Rick Crawford faces Democratic challenger Terri Yarbrough Green, a semi-retired pathologist, in the November 3, 2026 general election. Both candidates advanced unopposed after primary elections for both parties were canceled. The matchup hinges on Crawford's conservative voting record and focus on federal spending controls against Green's populist campaign emphasizing campaign finance reform, healthcare access, and working-class economic supports. ## Candidates - **Terri Yarbrough Green** (Democrat) · [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) · [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Terri_Yarbrough_Green) - **Rick Crawford** (Republican, incumbent) · [Campaign site](https://www.meetrickcrawford.com) · [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Rick_Crawford_%28Arkansas%29) ## Issues ### Economy and Cost of Living Salience: high Crawford focuses on permanent spending controls, lower taxes, and debt reduction, whereas Green advocates raising the minimum wage, regulating private equity, and breaking up corporate monopolies. **Terri Yarbrough Green:** Supports raising minimum wage and anti-monopoly limits Green advocates for economic policies aimed at supporting working families over corporations and wealthy donors. Her platform includes raising the minimum wage, placing limits on private equity, and curbing corporate monopolies. - Advocates raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation. - Calls for breaking up corporate monopolies and imposing limits on private equity in housing. - Focuses on building an economy where work pays and families do not live one crisis away from financial ruin. > “Raising the minimum wage so work actually pays.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) > “Banning stock trading by officials and their families. Breaking up monopolies. Raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Terri_Yarbrough_Green) **Rick Crawford:** Supports permanent federal spending controls Crawford prioritizes addressing the national debt through permanent spending controls and tax cuts. He has consistently voted for budget reconciliation and debt limit legislation while signing a taxpayer protection pledge. - Promotes permanent federal spending controls and lower taxes to combat the national debt. - Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with Americans for Tax Reform. - Voted for budget resolutions and reconciliation measures including H.R. 1 and the Limit, Save, Grow Act. > “address our debt crisis by enacting permanent spending controls so we can finally put the shovel down and start to get out the hole we have dug for ourselves.” > — Rick Crawford, via [Campaign site](https://www.meetrickcrawford.com) ### Healthcare Salience: high Crawford favors repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act with market reforms, while Green advocates for universal healthcare to eliminate medical debt and protect rural care access. **Terri Yarbrough Green:** Supports universal healthcare coverage Green, a medical doctor, highlights universal healthcare as a central priority of her campaign. She advocates for accessible, affordable care to prevent medical debt and ensure rural women have access to local maternity care. - Supports universal healthcare access for all citizens. - Emphasizes rural healthcare availability so women do not have to travel long distances for maternity care. - Seeks to ensure medical emergencies do not drive working families into bankruptcy. > “Accessible, affordable healthcare so getting sick does not mean going broke, and women don't have to travel hours for maternity care.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) **Rick Crawford:** Supports repealing and replacing Obamacare Crawford supports repealing federal healthcare mandates under the Affordable Care Act and replacing them with market-oriented reforms. He aims to preserve elements of the healthcare system while addressing affordability and access. - Supports repealing the Affordable Care Act. - Advocates replacing existing federal healthcare legislation with reforms focused on consumer access and affordability. > “If I am elected, I will vote to repeal this law and replace it with reforms that will preserve the best parts of the American healthcare system while addressing the problems of access and affordability.” > — Rick Crawford, via [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Rick_Crawford_%28Arkansas%29) ### Government Reform and Campaign Finance Salience: medium Crawford supported federal voting restrictions such as voter citizenship verification and objected to 2020 electoral votes, while Green focuses on banning dark money and stock trading by lawmakers. **Terri Yarbrough Green:** Supports campaign finance reform and dark money bans Green emphasizes eliminating dark money in politics, banning congressional stock trading, and restoring accountability to government. She views campaign finance reform as essential to ensuring government serves working families rather than wealthy donors. - Pledges to ban dark money in political campaigns and reform campaign finance laws. - Supports banning stock trading by elected officials and their immediate family members. - Calls for equal application of the rule of law and restoring checks and balances in Congress. > “We have to get dark money out of politics. Period.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) > “In Arkansas, we believe in the rule of law, the constitution, and that no one is above the law.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) **Rick Crawford:** Supports proof of citizenship voting requirements Crawford supports tightening federal voting laws, including requiring proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. He also voted against certifying the 2020 presidential electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. - Voted for the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) requiring documentary proof of citizenship for federal election registration. - Voted against certifying the 2020 presidential electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. ### Energy and Infrastructure Salience: medium Crawford focuses on expanding domestic fossil fuel energy and reducing regulatory permitting, whereas Green emphasizes infrastructure funding tied to environmental integrity and public services. **Terri Yarbrough Green:** Supports infrastructure investment and environmental utility standards Green supports federal investment in public infrastructure, including roads, bridges, rural broadband, and public schools. She emphasizes utility development that balances community needs with environmental integrity. - Supports building infrastructure including safe roads, bridges, and reliable broadband. - Advocates for public infrastructure and utilities that maintain environmental integrity while serving local communities. > “Strong infrastructure, including safe roads and bridges, reliable broadband, excellent public schools, productive farmland, and utilities that support both our environmental integrity and our communities’ needs.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) **Rick Crawford:** Supports domestic energy production and infrastructure deregulation Crawford advocates for an domestic energy policy focused on expanding oil, gas, and coal production while easing federal environmental regulations. He voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act and opposed the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill. - Voted for the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1). - Voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684). - Advocates for domestic energy production to ensure affordable fuel and national security. ### Agriculture and Corporate Regulation Salience: low Crawford highlights his committee leadership promoting global markets for district ag commodities, while Green emphasizes antitrust action to protect family farms from corporate monopolies. **Terri Yarbrough Green:** Supports family farms against big monopolies Green emphasizes supporting small family agricultural producers by curbing the power of agricultural monopolies. She connects agricultural vitality to broader corporate antitrust oversight. - Advocates supporting family farms. - Calls for pushing back against big monopolies in agriculture and other sectors. > “Supporting family farms and pushing back on big monopolies.” > — Terri Yarbrough Green, via [Campaign site](https://terrigreen26.com) **Rick Crawford:** Supports agricultural trade and local producer interests Crawford highlights the central role of agricultural production in Arkansas' 1st District, including rice farming. He serves on the House Agriculture Committee and brings a background in agricultural reporting and business. - Serves as a member of the House Committee on Agriculture. - Promotes agricultural commodities produced in the First District for global export. ### Immigration and Border Security Salience: medium **Terri Yarbrough Green:** No documented position in our sources **Rick Crawford:** Supports stricter border security and mandatory detention Crawford supports strict border enforcement, mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants arrested for theft or DUI, and increased immigration restrictions. He also voted to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. - Voted for the Secure the Border Act of 2023 (H.R. 2) and the Laken Riley Act (S. 5). - Voted for H.R. 875 making driving while impaired grounds for deportation or barring admission. - Voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024. ## Polls and markets _Updated Oct 31._ - [Polymarket](https://polymarket.com/event/ar-01-house-election-winner) — AR-01 House Election Winner: Republicans 98.1%, Democrats 1.6% - [Kalshi](https://kalshi.com/events/KXHOUSERACE-AR01-26) — AR-01 House winner?: Rick Crawford 97.9%, Terri Yarbrough Green 3.7% [View this race on 2026election.com](https://www.2026election.com/race/2026-house-ar-01)