Arizona's 8th congressional district special election, 2012

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2012 United States House of Representatives Special election in Arizona's 8th congressional district
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Nominee Ron Barber Jesse Kelly
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote111,20396,465
Percentage52.2%45.3%
U.S. Representative before election

Gabrielle Giffords
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

Ron Barber
Democratic

A 2012 special election in Arizona's 8th congressional district was held on June 12, with primary elections held on April 17, to fill a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Arizona's 8th congressional district until the 112th United States Congress ends on January 3, 2013. [1] The election was caused by the resignation of Representative Gabrielle Giffords on January 25, 2012, to concentrate on recovering from her injuries from the 2011 Tucson shooting. [2] The seat was won by Ron Barber, a former aide to Giffords who was wounded in the attempt on her life.

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Arizonas 8th congressional district

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Background

Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer announced April 17 to be the date for the special primary elections and June 12 for the special general election. [3]

Jan Brewer American politician

Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona, from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Brewer is the fourth woman, and was the third consecutive woman, to serve as Governor of Arizona. Brewer became governor of Arizona as part of the line of succession, as determined by the Arizona Constitution, when Governor Janet Napolitano resigned to become secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer had served as secretary of state of Arizona from January 2003 to January 2009.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

Declined

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Results

Democratic Primary results [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ron Barber44,185100
Total votes44,185100

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Frank Ronald Antenori was a Republican member of the Arizona Senate, based in Tucson, Arizona.

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Declined

Jonathan Paton American politician

Jonathan Paton is a former Arizona Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona's 8th District and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Paton was first elected to southern Arizona's Legislative District 30 as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives in 2004. He won reelection and began his second term in February 2007. In 2008, he was elected to the Arizona Senate, again representing Legislative District 30. On January 17, 2010, Paton announced he would be challenging Democratic U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. He subsequently resigned from the state Senate to focus his efforts on campaigning for Congress. Paton lost in the 2010 Republican primary and endorsed his former opponent, Jesse Kelly. He ran for Congress again in 2012, this time in Arizona's newly formed 1st Congressional District, ending in close defeat against Democratic opponent Ann Kirkpatrick.

Results

Republican Primary results [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Jesse Kelly27,10135.1
Republican Martha McSally19,41325.1
Republican Frank Antenori17,49722.6
Republican Dave Sitton13,29917.2
Total votes77,310100

General election

The following candidates were on the ballot:

Ron Barber American politician

Ronald Sylvester Barber is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2012 to 2015. Barber, a member of the Democratic Party from Arizona, served as district director for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords before Giffords resigned her seat due to the severe injuries she sustained in an assassination attempt, during which Barber was also injured. He won the Democratic nomination for the special election to finish Giffords's term and was sworn into office on June 19, 2012.

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Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Ron
Barber (D)		Jesse
Kelly (R)		Charlie
Manolakis (G)		Undecided
Public Policy Polling June 9–10, 20121,058± 3.0%53%41%4%3%

Results

Arizona's 8th congressional district special election, 2012 [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ron Barber111,20352.2
Republican Jesse Kelly96,46545.3
Green Charlie Manolakis4,8692.3
Total votes213,189100

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References

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  2. ↑ "Rep. Giffords to resign this week from Congress, focus on recovering from shooting injuries". The Washington Times. January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Brewer Orders Special Election For June 12". The Huffington Post. January 27, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Giffords aide to run for seat in special election". AP. February 9, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Heinz for Congress". heinzforcongress.com.
  6. ↑ Rep. Heinz pledged to drop out and endorse Ron Barber if he chose to run in the special election. Heinz will still run in the primary for the general election in the district, which was renumbered the 2nd in redistricting.
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  12. 1 2 "Arizona Candidates Race for Giffords Seat". Roll Call. January 24, 2012. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
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  16. ↑ "Giffords meets with supporters, says she'll run again". Green Valley News and Sun. January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  17. 1 2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20120504030820/http://azsos.gov/election/2012/special/primary/canvass2012specialprimary.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012.Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  20. ↑ "Politicians Scramble to Fill Giffords' Void". Arizona Daily Star . 3 February 2012.
  21. ↑ Smith, Dylan (January 25, 2012). "Paton to seek CD1 seat in Congress". Tucson Sentinel. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
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