John McCain was the senior United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018 and was the 2008 Republican nominee for President of the United States; however, he lost the election to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. McCain was involved in many elections on local, statewide and nationwide stage since his first election to the United States House of Representatives in 1982.
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 15,363 | 31.83 | |
Republican | Ray Russell | 12,500 | 25.89 | |
Republican | James A. Mack | 10,675 | 22.11 | |
Republican | Donna Carlson-West | 9,736 | 20.17 | |
Total votes | 48,274 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 89,116 | 65.90 | |
Democratic | William E. Hegarty | 41,261 | 30.51 | |
Libertarian | Richard K. Dodge | 4,850 | 3.59 | |
Total votes | 135,227 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John McCain | 162,418 | 78.08 | |
Democratic | Harry W. Braun | 45,609 | 21.92 | |
Total votes | 208,027 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John McCain | 521,850 | 60.47 | |
Democratic | Richard Kimball | 340,965 | 39.51 | |
Write-in | 106 | 0.01 | ||
Total votes | 862,921 | 100% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 201,500 | 100.00 | |
Total votes | 201,500 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 771,395 | 55.82 | |
Democratic | Claire Sargent | 436,321 | 31.57 | |
Independent | Evan Mecham | 145,361 | 10.52 | |
Libertarian | Kiana Delamare | 22,613 | 1.64 | |
New Alliance | Ed Finkelstein | 6,335 | 0.46 | |
Independent | Robert B. Winn (write-in) | 26 | 0.00 | |
Total votes | 1,382,051 | 100% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 206,490 | 99.73 | |
Republican | Mark Healy (write-in) | 568 | 0.27 | |
Total votes | 207,058 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 696,577 | 68.74 | |
Democratic | Ed Ranger | 275,224 | 27.16 | |
Libertarian | John C. Zajac | 23,004 | 2.27 | |
Reform | Bob Park | 18,288 | 1.80 | |
Independent | Bill Reilley (write-in) | 187 | 0.02 | |
Total votes | 1,013,280 | 100% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 331,720 | 100.00 | |
Total votes | 331,720 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 1,505,372 | 76.74 | |
Democratic | Stuart Starky | 404,507 | 20.62 | |
Libertarian | Ernest Hancock | 51,798 | 2.64 | |
Total votes | 1,961,677 | 100% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 333,744 | 56.25 | |
Republican | J. D. Hayworth | 190,229 | 32.06 | |
Republican | Jim Deakin | 69,328 | 11.69 | |
Total votes | 593,301 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 1,005,615 | 58.86 | |
Democratic | Rodney Glassman | 592,011 | 34.65 | |
Libertarian | David Nolan | 80,097 | 4.69 | |
Green | Jerry Joslyn | 24,603 | 1.44 | |
Independent | Ian Gilyeat (write-in) | 5,938 | 0.35 | |
Independent | Loyd Ellis (write-in) | 160 | 0.01 | |
Independent | Santos Enrique Chavez (write-in) | 39 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Sydney Dudikoff (write-in) | 14 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Raymond Caplette (write-in) | 7 | 0.00 | |
Total votes | 1,708,484 | 100% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | John McCain | 302,532 | 51.16 | |
Republican | Kelli Ward | 235,988 | 39.91 | |
Republican | Alex Meluskey | 31,159 | 5.27 | |
Republican | Clair Van Steenwyk | 21,476 | 3.63 | |
Republican | Sean Webster (write-in) | 175 | 0.03 | |
Total votes | 591,330 | 100% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | John McCain | 1,359,267 | 53.71 | |
Democratic | Ann Kirkpatrick | 1,031,245 | 40.75 | |
Green | Gary W. Swing | 138,634 | 5.48 | |
Independent | Pat Quinn (write-in) | 694 | 0.03 | |
Independent | Sydney Dudikoff (write-in) | 494 | 0.02 | |
Independent | Selena Lopez (write-in) | 223 | 0.01 | |
Independent | Leonard A. Clark (write-in) | 83 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Anthony Camboni (write-in) | 45 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Sheila Bilyeu (write-in) | 34 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Gene Scott II (write-in) | 7 | 0.00 | |
Independent | Santos Enrique Chavez (write-in) | 4 | 0.00 | |
Total votes | 2,530,730 | 100% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John McCain | 208,879 | 40.08 | |
Republican | George W. Bush | 118,234 | 22.68 | |
Democratic | Al Gore | 107,950 | 20.71 | |
Democratic | Bill Bradley | 69,352 | 13.31 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes | 9,369 | 1.80 | |
Republican | Steve Forbes | 3,387 | 0.65 | |
Republican | Lyndon LaRouche | 1,406 | 0.27 | |
Republican | Gary Bauer | 1,401 | 0.27 | |
Republican | Orrin Hatch | 1,240 | 0.24 | |
Total votes | 521,218 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John McCain | 791,064 | 38.03 | |
Democratic | Al Gore | 454,629 | 21.84 | |
Republican | George W. Bush | 443,304 | 21.29 | |
Democratic | Bill Bradley | 159,772 | 7.67 | |
Green | Ralph Nader | 89,210 | 4.29 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes | 57,695 | 2.77 | |
Reform | Donald Trump | 14,597 | 0.70 | |
Libertarian | Harry Browne | 11,973 | 0.58 | |
Reform | George D. Weber | 9,173 | 0.44 | |
Republican | Steve Forbes | 6,035 | 0.29 | |
American Independent | Howard Phillips | 5,957 | 0.29 | |
Natural Law | John Hagelin | 4,843 | 0.23 | |
Green | Joel Kovel | 4,646 | 0.22 | |
Others | 23,839 | 1.15 | ||
Total votes | 2,076,737 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | George W. Bush | 12,034,676 | 62.00 | |
Republican | John McCain | 6,061,332 | 31.23 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes | 985,819 | 5.08 | |
Republican | Steve Forbes | 171,860 | 0.89 | |
Republican | Unpledged delegates | 61,246 | 0.32 | |
Republican | Gary Bauer | 60,709 | 0.31 | |
Republican | Others | 35,659 | 0.18 | |
Total votes | 19,411,301 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | George W. Bush | 2,058 | 99.66 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes | 6 | 0.29 | |
Republican | John McCain | 1 | 0.05 | |
Total votes | 2,065 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John Barnes Jr. | 40,207 | 62.43 | |
Republican | John McCain (write-in) | 4,305 | 6.68 | |
Republican | Mike Huckabee (write-in) | 3,227 | 5.01 | |
Republican | Rudy Giuliani (write-in) | 3,164 | 4.91 | |
Republican | Mitt Romney (write-in) | 2,396 | 3.72 | |
Republican | Ron Paul (write-in) | 1,938 | 3.01 | |
Republican | Fred Thompson (write-in) | 1,496 | 2.32 | |
Republican | Duncan Hunter (write-in) | 901 | 1.40 | |
Republican | Joe Lieberman (write-in) | 528 | 0.82 | |
Republican | John Edwards (write-in) | 515 | 0.80 | |
Republican | Barack Obama (write-in) | 474 | 0.74 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes (write-in) | 385 | 0.60 | |
Republican | Hillary Clinton (write-in) | 324 | 0.50 | |
Write-in | 4,543 | 7.05 | ||
Total votes | 64,403 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John McCain | 9,838,910 | 46.49 | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | 4,681,436 | 22.12 | |
Republican | Mike Huckabee | 4,281,900 | 20.23 | |
Republican | Ron Paul | 1,214,563 | 5.74 | |
Republican | Rudy Giuliani | 597,499 | 2.82 | |
Republican | Fred Thompson | 303,845 | 1.44 | |
Republican | Uncommitted | 70,873 | 0.34 | |
Republican | Alan Keyes | 59,636 | 0.28 | |
Republican | Duncan Hunter | 39,883 | 0.19 | |
Republican | Others | 26,548 | 0.13 | |
Write-in | 48,004 | 0.23 | ||
Total votes | 21,163,125 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | John McCain | 2,343 | 99.28 | |
Republican | Ron Paul | 15 | 0.64 | |
Republican | Mitt Romney | 2 | 0.09 | |
Total votes | 2,360 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Barack Obama/Joe Biden | 69,456,897 | 52.91 | |
Republican | John McCain/Sarah Palin | 59,934,814 | 45.66 | |
Independent | Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez | 738,475 | 0.56 | |
Libertarian | Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root | 523,686 | 0.40 | |
Constitution | Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle | 199,314 | 0.15 | |
Green | Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente | 161,603 | 0.12 | |
Others | 248,380 | 0.19 | ||
Total votes | 131,263,169 | 100.00 |
The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska. Obama became the first African American to be elected to the presidency, as well as being only the third sitting United States senator elected president, joining Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. Meanwhile, this was only the second successful all-senator ticket since the 1960 election and is the only election where both major party nominees were sitting senators. This was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor vice president was on the ballot, as well as the first election since 1928 in which neither ran for the nomination.
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