Republican primary to be held in House District 48

Republican voters in Cabot, Ward, Austin and other parts of northern Lonoke County will go to the polls on May 20 to choose between Davy Carter (R-Cabot) and Randy Minton (R-Ward). Minton long ago announced his intentions to run for the seat to replace term-limited Rep. Susan Schulte (R-Cabot). Because of term limits, Minton can only seek one term since he previously served two terms in the House during the Huckabee governorship.

Minton will be joined in the primary by Davy Carter (right), who has announced that he will also run for the seat. Carter is a Cabot attorney and former vice president and general counsel for Community Bank in Cabot. Carter has spent approximately 10 years in the financial sector and received an undergraduate degree in Corporate Finance from Arkansas State University in 1997 and completed the Graduate School of Banking at LSU in 2003. He received his law degree from UALR in 2005. A native of Marianna, Carter and his wife Cara have three children.

Here's the district map: