2012 Arizona Republican Primary Election Results: Key Races
Congressman David Schweikert defeats Congressman Ben Quayle. Schweikert says Quayle was "very gracious" in his concession call, and it was "big boy politics."Former Cong. Matt Salmon defeats former Arizona Speaker of the House Kirk Adams in another contentious congressional race.Former Cong. Jeff Flake smashes Wil Cardon in the GOP Senate primary to replace retiring Jon Kyl.Kyl and Sen. John McCain lose two of three races congressional endorsements. Kyl had said "It's time to turn things over to Ben Quayle" and "to Kirk Adams." Voters had the final say over Kyl's attempt to call the shots.* Denotes Candidates Endorsed by The Arizona Conservative
- Denotes Winners
U.S. Senate--% Reporting | Votes | Percentage |
Will Cardon* | 74342 | |
|
249877 | |
Clair Van Steenwyk | 20523 | |
Bryan Hackbarth | 13536 |
U.S. House of Representatives--% Reporting | Votes | Percentage |
District 1 | ||
|
20382 | |
Patrick Gatti | 1954 | |
Douglas Wade | 4821 | |
Gaither Martin | 6135 | |
District 2 | ||
|
36261 | |
Mark Koskiniemi | 7600 | |
District 3 | ||
|
7570 | |
Jaime Vasquez | 4411 | |
District 4 | ||
Ron Gould* | 18539 | |
|
29821 | |
Rick Murphy | 10334 | |
District 5—75% Reporting | ||
|
30366 | |
Kirk Adams | 25554 | |
District 6—60% Reporting | ||
|
30760 | |
Ben Quayle | 26932 | |
District 7 | ||
Write-in | 743 | |
District 8 | ||
|
39280 | |
Tony Passalacqua | 8054 | |
District 9 | ||
Wendy Rogers* | 6899 | |
Travis Grantham | 5706 | |
|
7728 | |
Lisa Borowsky | 2230 | |
Martin Sepulveda | 6883 | |
Jeff Thompson | 2281 | |
Leah Schandelbauer | 1277 |
ARIZONA SENATE (Contested Races)
District 16--% Reporting | Votes | Percentage |
John Fillmore* | 6281 | |
Rich Crandall | 6737 | |
District 25 | ||
Russell Pearce* | 7154 | |
|
9630 | |
District 5 | ||
Sam Scarmardo* | 5671 | |
Nancy McLain | 4405 | |
|
6987 | |
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Contested Races)
District 1--% Reporting | Votes | Percentage |
Lori Klein* | 10535 | |
|
14699 | |
|
17520 | |
District 5 | ||
|
10420 | |
|
6347 | |
Wyatt Brooks | 3902 | |
George Schnittgrund | 3030 | |
District 12 | ||
Larry Chesley* | 4966 | |
|
8487 | |
|
7198 | |
District 13 | ||
|
6792 | |
Russ Jones | 5264 | |
Darin Mitchell* | 5624 | |
District 15 | ||
John Allen* | 5192 | |
David Smith* | 4682 | |
James Bearup | 2883 | |
Heather Carter | 9048 | |
District 16 | ||
Judy Novalsky* | 3875 | |
|
6681 | |
|
5566 | |
Jeff Davis | 4987 | |
District 20 | ||
|
5651 | |
|
7737 | |
George Benavides Sr. | 2471 | |
District 22 | ||
|
11332 | |
Jeanette Dubreil* | 6139 | |
|
8901 | |
District 23 | ||
|
13159 | |
|
11180 | |
Jennifer Petersen | 7302 | |
District 26 | ||
Buckley Merrill* | 971 | |
Raymond Speakman* | 233 | |
|
2412 | |
|
1855 | |
ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION
Votes | Reporting | |
|
229617 | |
|
207177 | |
|
216078 |