Elections

Who’s elected, who will be in General Election

Sep 2, 2016

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The General Election is coming into shape for Maricopa voters. Here are the current vote counts and how the ballots will look in November:

FEDERAL

U.S. Senate

Democrat Republican
Ann Kirkpatrick John McCain

Incumbent McCain has 51.5 percent of the votes (282,506) in the Republican primary. Challengers Kelli Ward has 39.5 percent, Alex Meluskey has 5.5 percent and Clair Van Steenwyk has 3.6 percent. In the Democrat primary, Kirkpatrick had no opposition.

U.S. Congress, Arizona District 1

Democrat Republican
Tom O’Halleran Paul Babeu

In the Democrat primary, O’Halleran has 58.5 percent of the vote (29,116) to Miguel Olivas’ 41.5 percent. Babeu had more opponents in the Republican primary and has won with 31.5 percent of the vote (18,644). Gary Kiehne was second with 23 percent, followed by Wendy Rodgers with 22.4 percent, Ken Bennett with 16.5 percent, David Gowan (who withdrew from the race) with 3.4 percent and Shawn Redd with 3.2 percent.

STATE*

State Senate, District 11
Democrat Republican
Ralph Atchue Steve Smith

Neither Atchue nor incumbent Smith had opponents in the primary.

State House, District 11 (elect 2)
Democrat Republican
Corin Hammond Mark Finchem
Vince Leach

Incumbents Finchem and Leach had no primary opponents. Hammond was the only Democrat running for the two available seats.

Arizona Corporation Commission (elect 3)
Democrats       Republicans
Tom Chabin       Bob Burns
Bill Mundell       Andy Tobin
Boyd Dunn

The Democrats had only two candidates on the ballot and both go through to the general. The Republicans eliminated one candidate, Rick Gray, while Bob Burns was the top vote-getter with 23.8 percent of the vote (259,106).

PINAL COUNTY

Sheriff
Democrat Republican
Kay Dickson Mark Lamb

Dickson won the Democrat primary against Kevin Taylor with 62 percent of the vote (9,511). Lamb received 17,722 votes to defeat Steve Henry in the Republican primary, with 63 percent.

Assessor
Democrat Republican
Jacqueline Minto Douglas Wolf

Neither incumbent Wolf nor challenger Minto had opponents in their respective primaries.

Supervisor District 4
Republican
Anthony Smith

Incumbent Smith defeated challenger Rich Vitiello in the primary 3,675 – 3,186. With no other party putting forth candidates, he is re-elected.

County Attorney
Republican
Kent Volkmer

Volkmer has pulled an upset by defeating incumbent Lando Voyles in the primary 16,008 – 11,362. With no other party putting forth candidates, he is elected.

Treasurer
Republican
Michael McCord

McCord defeated Ted Gremmel in the GOP primary 13,102 – 12,010 for the open position. With no other party putting up candidates, he is elected.

Recorder
Republican
Virginia Ross

The incumbent had no challengers in the primary or general elections and is re-elected.

Superintendent of Education
Republican
Jill Broussard

The incumbent had no challengers in the primary or general elections and is re-elected.

CITY OF MARICOPA (nonpartisan)
Mayor
Christian Price

The incumbent mayor has no opponent and is re-elected. (He received 4,297 votes.)

City Council (elect 3)
Nancy Smith   2,468
Julia Gusse   1,804
Marvin Brown   1,743
Dan Frank   1,581
Bridger Kimball   1,524
Joshua Babb   1,465
Leon Potter   1,054

Under state law calculations, the total votes of 11,639cast for all candidates required any single candidate to accrue 1,940 votes to be elected outright. Incumbent Smith exceeded that threshold and is re-elected. Brown and Kimball will seek to retain their seats in the General Election against former councilmembers Gusse and Frank.

*The state has only 98 percent of precincts reporting