On June 17, the Arkansas Green Party submitted 14,300 signatures on a petition to place the party back on the ballot. 10,000 are required. If the petition is approved, that will be the third election year in a row in which the Green Party has completed this petition. The only other party that has ever qualified by petition in Arkansas is the Reform Party, which completed the petition once, in 1996.

Before 1971, Arkansas allowed any party to be on the ballot with no petition.

Arkansas allows parties to be on the ballot for President only, with a petition of 1,000 signatures, and many parties have completed that petition. Arkansas is the only state in which no Libertarian Party member has ever been on the ballot for partisan office other than President.