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Tom Cotton

Official portrait of Tom Cotton
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. senator from Arkansas (class 2)
Leadership
Senate Republican Conference Chair
Party
Republican
Born
1977
In Congress
House since 2013 · Senate since 2015 · 13 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
COTTON, THOMAS
Next election
Primary March 3, 2026 · General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Arkansas with the whole state highlighted

Arkansas

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Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

RepublicanU.S. Senate · ArkansasIncumbentGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID S4AR00103 · Principal campaign committee: COTTON FOR SENATE, INC.

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. Senate · Arkansas$7,149,643.47General-election nominee
2019–2020U.S. Senate · Arkansas$9,141,301.91Won the general election (66.53%)
Total raised$7,149,643.47
Total spent$9,470,585.49
Cash on hand$5,129,927.81
Debts owed by the campaign$104,891.37
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through October 14, 2026, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $3,589,862.47PACs and other committees: $1,324,500.00Party committees: $62,000.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $1,591,355.02Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $581,925.98
  • Individual contributions$3,589,862.4750%
  • PACs and other committees$1,324,500.0019%
  • Party committees$62,000.001%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$1,591,355.0222%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$581,925.988%

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$1,075,924.5919%
  • Contributions over $200$4,543,163.7581%
  • Itemized from inside Arkansas$852,713.8817%
  • Itemized from other states$4,119,524.0083%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: California $627,497.93 · Florida $595,675.52 · New York $508,361.76 · Texas $385,739.26 · Virginia $372,669.71. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$9.9M$0 APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $1,269,900.08APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $342,215.57JULY QUARTERLY: raised $1,191,085.02JULY QUARTERLY: spent $580,788.24OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $918,062.86OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $531,354.89YEAR-END: raised $768,907.49YEAR-END: spent $499,313.12PRE-PRIMARY: raised $365,082.09PRE-PRIMARY: spent $340,104.89APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $893,001.97APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $776,047.04JULY QUARTERLY: raised $827,077.05JULY QUARTERLY: spent $682,277.71OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $756,489.68OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $3,868,300.762025-032025-092026-022026-06

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

Voting record, 119th Congress

Roll-call votes while serving915
Voted yea666
Voted nay235
Did not vote14 of 915
Bills and resolutions sponsored97
Sponsored that became law1
Cosponsored195

Recorded Senate roll-call votes from January 9, 2025 through September 30, 2026, the latest vote on record for this member. Each vote links to the official Senate record.

Latest roll-call votes

DateQuestionResultVote
Sep 30, 2026On the Nomination · PN 1129
Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor		Nomination ConfirmedYea
Sep 30, 2026On the Cloture Motion · PN 1129
Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor		Cloture Motion Agreed toYea
Sep 30, 2026On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · HR 9340
A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal standard relating to the recovery of the full, incremental costs of upgrades that serve large-load customers, and for other purposes.		Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedYea
Sep 30, 2026On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed · HR 7008
A bill to amend chapter 131 of title 5 to require certain restrictions on stocks for Members of Congress and their spouses and dependents, and for other purposes.		Cloture on the Motion to Proceed RejectedYea
Sep 29, 2026On the Motion to Discharge · SRES 852
A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.		Motion to Discharge RejectedNay
Sep 29, 2026On the Motion to Proceed · SJRES 197
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to 		Motion to Proceed RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On Passage of the Bill · S 4668
A bill to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of, and provide protections for, student athletes and to promote fair competition among intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes.		Bill PassedYea
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To establish certain standards with respect to coaches of varsity sports teams.		Amendment RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To increase the limitation on funding for post-eligibility insurance and catastrophic injury for student athletes.		Amendment RejectedNay
Sep 28, 2026On the Amendment · S 4668
To limit price increases for college athletics tickets.		Amendment RejectedNay

Latest bills and resolutions sponsored

  • S. 5454 Small Business Audit Correction Act of 2026
    Introduced Sep 22, 2026 · Latest action Sep 22, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
  • S. 5458 Supply Relief and Domestic Production Cost Reduction Act
    Introduced Sep 22, 2026 · Latest action Sep 22, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • S. 5422 Arkansas Delta National Heritage Area Act
    Introduced Sep 17, 2026 · Latest action Sep 17, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • S. 5083 Fiscal Sponsorship Transparency Act of 2026
    Introduced Jul 22, 2026 · Latest action Jul 22, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
  • S. 4984 Restoration of Employment Choice for Adults with Disabilities Act
    Introduced Jul 15, 2026 · Latest action Jul 15, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  • S. 4939 Countering CCP Act
    Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Latest action Jun 24, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  • S. 4795 FREEDOM Act
    Introduced Jun 16, 2026 · Latest action Jun 16, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • S. 4760 A bill to amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
    Introduced Jun 11, 2026 · Latest action Jun 11, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
  • S. 4764 A bill to amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
    Introduced Jun 11, 2026 · Latest action Jun 11, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
  • S. 4729 Biosecurity Smuggling Deterrence Act of 2026
    Introduced Jun 10, 2026 · Latest action Jun 10, 2026: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Counts of the public record only; TerraCivic does not rate members or judge their votes. Votes: Voteview (Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/). Bills: GovInfo Bill Status (public domain). Retrieved October 23, 2026.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

255 committees reported giving $1,277,494.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Thomas Cotton$665,400.00
  • Independent expenditures opposing Thomas Cotton$0.00

FEC totals for the 2026 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Arkansas U.S. Senate, 2026 · 9 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Thomas Cotton (R)$7,149,643.47$5,129,927.812026-10-14
Hallie Shoffner (D)$4,042,810.83$756,931.702026-10-14
Jeb Little (R)$92,531.55$127.402026-03-31
Jeffrey Francis Wadlin (L)$79,363.00$10,738.642026-09-30
Micah Ashby (R)$41,161.53$754.402026-02-11
Ethan N Dunbar Sr. (D)$17,461.70$1,110.622026-03-27
James Richard Russell III (D)$3,086.90$0.002025-11-15
Daniel Allen Whitfield (D)$353.41$2,194.372026-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

Recent polls

Polling average: Tom Cotton 47.9% · Hallie Shoffner 40.8% (Cotton +7.1%). Averages listed on Wikipedia from 270toWin, Silver Bulletin.

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
Hendrix CollegeOctober 8–13, 2026709 (LV)± 5.0%Tom Cotton 50% · Hallie Shoffner 41%
GrayHouse (R)September 30 – October 4, 2026550 (LV)± 4.2%Tom Cotton 50% · Hallie Shoffner 39%
J.L. PartnersAugust 14–18, 2026803 (LV)± 3.5%Tom Cotton 51% · Hallie Shoffner 35%
Hendrix CollegeAugust 11–12, 20261,217 (LV)± 4.7%Tom Cotton 44% · Hallie Shoffner 47%
2040 Strategy Group (D)July 17–25, 2026586 (LV)± 4.0%Tom Cotton 46% · Hallie Shoffner 43%
GrayHouse (R)February 7–9, 2026550 (LV)± 4.2%Tom Cotton 58% · Hallie Shoffner 36%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States Senate election in Arkansas (retrieved October 22, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: COTTON FOR SENATE, INC..
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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