Election Name: | 2016 Arizona elections |
Country: | Arizona |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2014 Arizona elections |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2018 Arizona elections |
Next Year: | 2018 |
The general election was held in the U.S. state of Arizona on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election. Arizona voters chose 11 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.Also three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election, as well as all of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives and one seat for the United States Senate. Primary elections were held in August 2016.
See main article: article and United States presidential election in Arizona, 2016.
Three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission were up for election. Republican Brenda Burns chose not to run for re-election to a second term in office. Republican Gary Pierce was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election to a third term in office.
Because only 2 Democratic candidates ran for the Corporation Commission, no Democratic primary was held.
See main article: United States Senate election in Arizona, 2016.
Republican incumbent John McCain defeated Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick.
See main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2016. All of Arizona's nine seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2016. Republicans won 5 seats, while Democrats took 4.