Final answer:
The specific voting data required to construct a preference table for the Community Service Club election and determine the number of first-place votes for Arthur is not provided in the question. Therefore, we cannot accurately create the table or answer how many first-place votes Arthur has.
Step-by-step explanation:
To construct a preference table based on the information provided about the Community Service Club election, we need the voting data with preferences for each candidate. Unfortunately, the supplied text does not include specific voting data for Arthur, Brandy, Chandra, and Darrell, which is necessary to create the preference table and determine how many first-place votes Arthur received.
Without actual voting results or more detailed information on how the students ranked the candidates, we cannot accurately answer how many first-place votes Arthur has, nor can we construct a preference table. If you're able to provide the ranking data for each vote or any additional context about the election, I'd be happy to help with this mathematics problem involving election systems and voting cycles.