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Incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly defeated Republican Blake Masters on Friday to win a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, a contest that left Democrats one seat short in the battle for control of the ...
Kelly’s victory in a 2020 special election spurred by the death of Republican Sen. John McCain gave Democrats both of Arizona’s Senate seats for the first time in 70 years. The shift was ...
Democrat Mark Kelly won the Arizona Senate seat once held by John McCain, riding Arizona's changing electorate to flip a Republican Senate seat in a state long dominated by the GOP. Arizona will ...
Kelly became the first Democrat to win the Class 3 Senate seat since Carl Hayden won his last term in 1962. [8] This also marked the first time since the 82nd Congress preceding the 1952 election that Democrats held both Senate seats in Arizona. Kelly was sworn in on December 2, 2020.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Arizona. The seat was previously held by Republican John McCain , who won his final term in 2016 and died from glioblastoma on August 25, 2018.
This was the first time that Arizona voted for candidates of different political parties for U.S. senator and president since Democrat Dennis DeConcini was reelected as Republican George H. W. Bush carried the state in 1988. Gallego also became the first Latino elected to the U.S Senate from Arizona, a state with a large Latino population [6]
Among self-described moderates — a full 42% of the Arizona electorate — Kelly won by 30 percentage points. In the end, most Arizona voters (54%) simply said that Masters was “too extreme ...
On February 12, 2019, Kelly announced his candidacy for Arizona's Class 3 U.S. Senate seat in the 2020 special election. [a] He won the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020, and defeated incumbent Republican Martha McSally in the general election on November 3, becoming the first Democrat to win this seat since 1962. Kelly was sworn in on ...