Arizona elections, 2016

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The general election was held in the U.S. state of Arizona on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election. Arizona voters chose 11 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. Also three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election, as well as all of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives and one seat for the United States Senate. Primary elections were held in August 2016.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Arizona state of the United States of America

Arizona is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; its other neighboring states are Nevada and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.

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US President

Corporation Commission

Three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election. Republican Brenda Burns chose not to run for re-election to a second term in office. Republican Gary Pierce was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.

The Arizona Corporation Commission is the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Arizona, established by Article 15 of the Arizona Constitution. Arizona is one of only fourteen states with elected commissioners. The Arizona constitution explicitly calls for an elected commission, as opposed to a governor-appointed commission, which is the standard in most states, because its drafters feared that governors would appoint industry-friendly officials. They are directly elected statewide and serve staggered four-year terms.

Brenda Burns is an American politician, real estate agent and member of the Republican Party from the state of Arizona who served as a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission from 2011 to 2015. Elected in 2010, she was eligible to run for re-election to a second term in 2014 but chose not to.

Gary Pierce American politician

Gary L. Pierce is a former Arizona Corporation Commissioner and a former member of the Arizona House of Representatives.

Republican primary

Candidates

Bob Burns (Arizona politician) American politician

Robert Burns is a politician from Arizona who previously served as the President of the Arizona State Senate. Burns is a Republican who was elected from District 9 and resides in Peoria. Burns also served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Al Melvin (politician) American politician

Albert Anthony Melvin is a Republican politician who served in the Arizona Senate.

Rick Gray (Arizona politician) American politician

Rick Gray is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 21. Gray previously served consecutively from January 10, 2011 until January 14, 2013 in the District 9 seat.

Results

Republican primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Robert Burns279,34823.85%
Republican Andy Tobin270,73823.11%
Republican Boyd Dunn221,85518.94%
Republican Rick Gray 211,718 18.07%
Republican Al Melvin 187,772 16.03%
Total votes1,171,431100

Democratic primary

Because only 2 Democratic candidates ran for the Corporation Commission, no Democratic primary was held.

Candidates

Tom Chabin is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Arizona State Senate representing the 2nd District from his appointment in September 2007 until 2012. He served on the Coconino County Board of Supervisors from 1992-2000. He was a democratic nominee for the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2016.

William Mundell, was a Democratic candidate for the Arizona Corporation Commission in the 2016 election.

General election [1]

Results

General election results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Robert Burns1,208,00222.35%
Republican Andy Tobin1,122,84920.77%
Republican Boyd Dunn1,061,09419.63%
Democratic William Mundel 1,024,501 18.95%
Democratic Tom Chabin 988,666 18.29%
Total votes5,225,132100

US Senate

Republican incumbent John McCain defeated Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick.

John McCain American politician

John Sidney McCain III was an American politician and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from January 1987 until his death. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.

Ann Kirkpatrick American politician

Ann Leila Kirkpatrick is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district. She previously represented Arizona's 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2017. A Democrat, she is also a former member of the Arizona House of Representatives.

House of Representatives

All of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2016. Republicans won 5 seats, while Democrats took 4.

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References

  1. "Arizona Secretary of State Election Night Reporting". results.arizona.vote. Retrieved 2017-05-28.