United States presidential elections in Arizona

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Presidential elections in Arizona
Arizona in United States.svg
Number of elections28
Voted Democratic9
Voted Republican19
Voted other0
Voted for winning candidate22
Voted for losing candidate6

Since Arizona's admission to the Union in February 1912, [1] it has participated in 28 United States presidential elections. In the 1912 presidential election, the incumbent president William Howard Taft finished fourth in Arizona, receiving just 12.75% of the popular vote. [2] In the 1936 presidential election, the Democratic Party's candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt won Arizona, defeating the Republican Party's candidate Alf Landon by 42.92%, [3] which remains the largest margin of victory in the state's history. Ross Perot, the independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election, received the highest vote share (23.79%) ever won by a third-party candidate in Arizona. [4]

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Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's candidate in the 2020 presidential election, won Arizona, defeating the incumbent president Donald Trump by a close margin of 0.3%. [5] During the 2021 joint session of the Congress for ascertaining the electoral votes, 69 members objected to the certification of electoral votes of Arizona, asserting that "they were not, under all of the known circumstances, regularly given". [6] The objection failed by a vote of 6–93 in the Senate and 121–303 in the House of Representatives. [7] However, Trump's campaign has launched various post-election lawsuits challenging the results. [8] As of 2022, no Republican has won the presidency without carrying Arizona since its statehood in 1912, but Democrats have won the presidency without carrying the state six times, most recently Barack Obama in 2012.

Since the 1952 presidential election, Arizona has been considered a stronghold state for the Republican Party, as it won Arizona in all elections since except 1996 and 2020. [9] However, recent political realignment has led some to consider Arizona as a swing state, and demographic changes and trends in Maricopa County, Pinal County and Pima County has led others to believe Arizona will slowly solidify into a Democratic stronghold, much like the trends seen in Florida in recent decades. [9] [10]

Presidential elections

Key for parties
   Communist Party USA – (CPUSA)
   Constitution Party – (CP)
   Democratic Party – (D)
   Green Party – (G)
   Libertarian Party – (LI)
   Prohibition Party – (PRO)
   Reform Party – (RE)
   Republican Party – (R)
   Union Party – (U)

Note A double dagger () indicates the national winner.
Note Percentages may not total 100.0% because of rounding.

Presidential elections in Arizona from 1912 to present
YearWinnerRunner-upOther candidate [lower-alpha 1] EVRef.
CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%CandidateVotes%
Woodrow Wilson (D)10,324 Theodore Roosevelt (PR)6,949 Eugene Debs (S)3,1633
Woodrow Wilson (D)33,170 Charles Evans Hughes (R)20,522 Allan L. Benson (S)3,1743
Warren G. Harding (R)37,016 James M. Cox (D)29,546 Eugene Debs (S)2223
Calvin Coolidge (R)30,516 John W. Davis (D)26,235 Robert M. La Follette (PR)17,2103
Herbert Hoover (R)52,533 Al Smith (D)38,537 William Z. Foster (CPUSA)1843
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)79,264 Herbert Hoover (R)36,104 Norman Thomas (S)2,6183
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)86,722 Alf Landon (R)33,433 William Lemke (U)3,3073
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)95,267 Wendell Willkie (R)54,030 Roger Babson (PRO)7423
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)80,926 Thomas E. Dewey (R)56,287 Claude A. Watson (PRO)4214
Harry S. Truman (D)95,251 Thomas E. Dewey (R)77,597 Henry A. Wallace (PR)3,3104
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)152,042 Adlai Stevenson (D)108,528
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)176,990 Adlai Stevenson (D)112,880 T. Coleman Andrews (C)3034
Richard Nixon (R)221,241 John F. Kennedy (D)176,781 Eric Hass (SLP)4694
Barry Goldwater [lower-alpha 3] (R)242,535 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)237,753 Eric Hass (SLP)4825
Richard Nixon (R)266,721 Hubert Humphrey (D)170,514 George Wallace (AI)46,5735
Richard Nixon (R)402,812 George McGovern (D)198,540 John G. Schmitz (AI)21,2086
Gerald Ford (R)418,642 Jimmy Carter (D)295,602 Eugene McCarthy (I)19,2296
Ronald Reagan (R)529,688 Jimmy Carter (D)246,843 John B. Anderson (I)76,9526
Ronald Reagan (R)681,416 Walter Mondale (D)333,854 David Bergland (LI)10,5857
George H. W. Bush (R)702,541 Michael Dukakis (D)454,029 Ron Paul (LI)13,3517
George H. W. Bush (R)572,086 Bill Clinton (D)543,050 Ross Perot (I)353,7418
[4]
Bill Clinton (D)653,288 Bob Dole (R)622,073 Ross Perot (RE)112,0728
George W. Bush (R)781,652 Al Gore (D)685,341 Ralph Nader (G)45,6458
George W. Bush (R)1,104,294 John Kerry (D)893,524 Michael Badnarik (LI)11,85610
John McCain [lower-alpha 4] (R)1,230,111 Barack Obama (D)1,034,707 Bob Barr (LI)12,55510
Mitt Romney (R)1,233,654 Barack Obama (D)1,025,232 Gary Johnson (LI)32,10011
Donald Trump (R)1,252,401 Hillary Clinton (D)1,161,167 Gary Johnson (LI)106,32711
Joe Biden (D)1,672,143 Donald Trump (R)1,661,686 Jo Jorgensen (LI)51,46511
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See also

Notes

  1. For purposes of these lists, other candidates are defined as those who were in third place in Arizona.
  2. The incumbent president William Howard Taft finished fourth in Arizona, receiving 3,021 votes (
  3. Arizona was the home state of Barry Goldwater.
  4. Arizona was the home state of John McCain.

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