Issue No. 5: An act to increase the Arkansas minimum wage | |||||||||||||||||||
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2018 Arkansas Question 5 was a ballot measure in Arkansas held on November 6, 2018, to gradually raise the minimum wage in Arkansas to $11.00 an hour by 2021. It won by a wide margin, receiving over two-thirds of the vote.
The exact text of the ballot measure read:
An act to amend the Arkansas code concerning the state minimum wage; the act would raise the current state minimum wage from eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50) per hour to nine dollars and twenty-five cents ($9.25) per hour on January 1, 2019, to ten dollars ($10.00) per hour on January 1, 2020, and to eleven dollars ($11.00) per hour on January 1, 2021.
| Choice | Votes | % | |
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| For | 605,784 | 68.46 | |
| Against | 279,046 | 31.54 | |
| Total | 884,830 | 100.00 | |
| Valid votes | 884,830 | 99.05 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 8,447 | 0.95 | |
| Total votes | 893,277 | 100.00 | |
