Politics
About 160,000 early and provisional ballots still have yet to be tabulated in Maricopa County. Election officials will start counting again Thursday morning and hope to have them done by the middle to end of next week.
Nov. 5, 2014
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Despite a million dollar effort to topple the two-term incumbent, Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick has managed to hold onto her seat in Arizona's sprawling 1st Congressional District.
Nov. 5, 2014
A contentious pension-reform initiative in Phoenix was defeated in Tuesday’s election.
Nov. 5, 2014
Now that the midterm elections are over with, one thing stood out about this year’s race: the number of negative campaign commercials flooding the airwaves.
Nov. 5, 2014
More than half of the Valley's school districts had a bond or an override on the ballot, and voters approved more than half of them.
Nov. 4, 2014
Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has easily won her re-election bid in her Phoenix-area congressional district.
Nov. 4, 2014
Democratic Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Ron Barber find themselves in the familiar territory of finishing election night not knowing if they won or lost their congressional races.
Nov. 4, 2014
Republican candidates Tom Forese and Doug Little have won the two spots on the powerful Arizona Corporation Commission.
Nov. 4, 2014
Voters said no to a proposition that would raise pay for Arizona lawmakers while overwhelming approving a measure that allows terminally ill patients to try unapproved, experimental drugs.
Nov. 4, 2014
State Sen. Michele Reagan has defeated a longtime member of the Arizona Democratic political establishment to become the next secretary of state.
Nov. 4, 2014
Republican Mark Brnovich has won the race to become Arizona's next attorney general.
Nov. 4, 2014
Arizona Treasurer Doug Ducey cruised to an easy win over Democrat Fred DuVal on Tuesday to become the next governor as voters chose to stick with the Republican Party for the state's top office as it still struggles to bounce back from the Great Recession.
Nov. 4, 2014
Arizonans who haven’t already cast their ballot can head to the polls Tuesday. Two of Arizona’s congressional seats are among the most hotly contested races in the nation. Those races and several statewide offices have seen massive spending by candidates and outside groups.
Nov. 4, 2014
Maricopa County election officials have received more than 570,000 early ballots so far.
Nov. 3, 2014
Campaign signs that have littered front yards and intersections for the past few months will soon disappear, or so they should. After Election Day, most of those signs can be recycled.
Nov. 3, 2014
The Navajo Nation will postpone its presidential election and remove a candidate who is not fluent in the tribe’s language. The tribe's high court is also stripping the authority of its board of election supervisors.
Oct. 31, 2014
Lots of Arizonans vote early, but if you’re not one of them, Tuesday’s your day.
Oct. 31, 2014
There are a lot of school board elections on this year’s ballot in Arizona and many of them are sleepy affairs. That is definitely not the case in Gilbert.
Oct. 31, 2014
But according to a new report, the state is not doing better than many other states in electing non-white men.
Oct. 30, 2014
A Latino voter registration group is projecting that more than 280,000 ballots will be cast by Arizona’s Latino voters in next week’s mid-term elections. That estimate was released Thursday as part of the “State of Arizona’s Latino Voters” report.
Oct. 30, 2014
