Primary Election’s Over
Looking ahead, the winners are off to the General Election ballot in November. As of the night of the primary election, a total of $2,693,812.05 was reported in independent expenditures to sway the election. We expect much more to be spent for the general election. The only race that came extremely close prompting an automatic recount was in Congressional District 03 with Democrats Yassamin Ansari leading the more progressive Raquel Terán by 42 votes- Ansari ultimately won. The biggest surprise was in LD8 where long time legislator Juan Mendez (D) lost his reelection with 32.18% of the votes. His running mate Brian Garcia won the majority of the votes at 34.33% and Janeen Connolly won second place at 33.48%.
Primary Election is Shaping the House & Senate Leadership Races
Speaker Ben Toma lost his race for Congress to Abe Hamadeh coming in third at 21%. The House candidates running to be the next Speaker, are Leo Biasiucci and Steve Montenegro and Joe Chaplik. The Senate candidates running to be the next President are current President Warren Petersen and David Gowan. Former senator Vince Leach just regained his seat from Justine Wadsack so that’s a guaranteed presidential vote in favor of Gowan. Wadsack was a presumed guaranteed vote for Petersen.
In both the House and Senate Republicans have a one vote majority, putting control of both chambers up from grabs in November. With Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs working hard and publicly campaigning to help all Democratic campaigns, Democrats are hopeful they’ll win full control of either the House, the Senate or both.
To view a full report by Tassinari Terrazas LLC, click on the file link below:
For a detailed report on results of Primary Election Districts Overview - Arizona State and Federal Races, click to download file:
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