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2016 Arizona Elections
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. US President Corporation Commission 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. Republican primary Candidates * Robert Burns, incumbent * Al Melvin, former state senator * Rick Gray, state representative * Andy Tobin, incumbent * Boyd Dunn, former mayor of Chandler, Arizona Results Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares Mexico-United States border, an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. Its Capital city, capital and List of largest cities, largest city is Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital and list of United States cities by population, fifth most populous city in the United States. Arizona is divided into 15 List of counties in Arizona, counties. Arizona is the list of U.S. states and territories by area, 6th-largest state by area and the list of U.S. states and territories by population, 14th-most-populous of the 50 states. It is the 48th state and last of the contiguous United States, contiguous states to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Gray (Arizona Politician)
Rick Gray (born in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American politician and former member of the Arizona Senate as well as a former Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 21. Gray previously served consecutively from January 10, 2011, until January 14, 2013, in the District 9 seat. In 2016, Gray ran for the ⠀⠀Arizona Corporation Commission⠀seat Arizona Corporation Commission but placed fourth in the Republican primary. In 2018, Gray was appointed to fill the Arizona State Senate seat vacated by Debbie Lesko after she resigned to run for Congress. Gray would leave office on January 9, 2023. Early life and education Gray was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned his Bachelor of Science with a dual major in Organizational Leadership and Biblical Studies from Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska. Elections * In, 2010 When Republican Representative Rick Murphy ran for Arizona Senate and left a District 9 seat open, Gray ran alongside incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Kirkpatrick
Ann Leila Kirkpatrick (born March 24, 1950) is an American politician and retired attorney who served as the U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented from 2009 to 2011, and again from 2013 to 2017. Kirkpatrick was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007. First elected to Congress in 2008 in , Kirkpatrick was unseated in 2010. She regained her seat in a close race in 2012 and was reelected in 2014. Kirkpatrick ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 and was defeated by incumbent Republican John McCain. In 2018, she was elected to Congress in ; she was reelected in 2020. On March 12, 2021, Kirkpatrick announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Early life and early political career Kirkpatrick was born on March 24, 1950, and raised on an Apache Indian reservation near McNary, Arizona. Her parents were European Americans who lived and worked on the reservation. Her mother was a teacher, and her father was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American statesman and United States Navy, naval officer who represented the Arizona, state of Arizona in United States Congress, Congress for over 35 years, first as a U.S. House of Representatives, Representative from 1983 to 1987, and then as a U.S. senator from Arizona, U.S. senator from 1987 until his death in 2018. He was the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party's nominee in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. McCain is a son of Admiral John S. McCain Jr. and grandson of Admiral John S. McCain Sr. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and Early life and military career of John McCain, received a commission in the U.S. Navy. McCain became a Naval aviator (United States), naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he almost died in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire, 1967 USS ''Forrestal'' fire. While on a bombing mission during O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mundell
William A. Mundell is an American politician who served as a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission from 1999 until 2009 and in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1986 to 1992 as a Republican. He left the party and ran for the former position in 2016, 2018, and 2020 as a Democrat. Early life and education Mundell was born at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. His family moved to Arizona from Illinois in 1968. He graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1974 and a Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University, Texas in 1977. Political career Mundell practiced law in Chandler until he served as presiding judge of the Chandler Municipal Court from 1980 to 1986. He resigned from the role to successfully run for the Arizona House of Representatives for the 30th district in 1986, succeeding James Sossaman and serving alongside Mark Killian. He chaired the House Environment Committee, where he sponsored legisla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coconino County
Coconino County is a County (United States), county in the North Central Arizona, North-Central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. Its population was 145,101 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The county seat is Flagstaff, Arizona, Flagstaff. The county takes its name from ''Cohonino'', a name applied to the Havasupai people. It is the List of the largest counties in the United States by area, second-largest county by area in the contiguous United States, behind San Bernardino County, California. It has , or 16.4% of Arizona's total area, and is larger than the nine smallest states in the U.S. Coconino County comprises the Flagstaff metropolitan statistical area, Grand Canyon National Park, the federally recognized Havasupai Nation, and parts of the federally recognized Navajo Nation, Navajo, Hualapai, and Hopi nations. As a result, its relatively large Native Americans in the United States, Native American population makes up nearly 30% of the county's total popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chabin
Tom Chabin (born May 20, 1951) is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Arizona State Senate representing the 2nd District from his appointment in September 2007 until 2012. He served on the Coconino County Board of Supervisors from 1992 to 2000. He was a democratic nominee for the Arizona Corporation Commission in 2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa .... External linksBallotpedia Living people Democratic Party Arizona state senators 1951 births 21st-century members of the Arizona State Legislature {{Arizona-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandler, Arizona
Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the List of municipalities in Arizona, fourth-most populous city in Arizona, after Mesa, Arizona, Mesa, Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, and Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. Chandler is considered to be a part of the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of Chandler was 275,987, up from 236,123 at the 2010 census. Chandler is a commercial and tech hub for corporations like Intel, Northrop Grumman, Wells Fargo, PayPal and Boeing. History In 1891, Alexander J. Chandler, Dr. Alexander John Chandler, a Canadian and the first veterinary surgeon in the Arizona Territory, settled on a ranch south of Mesa, Arizona, Mesa and studied irrigation engineering. By 1900, he had acquired of land and began drawing up plans for a town-site on what was then know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Dunn
Boyd Dunn is an American politician who serves on the Arizona Corporation Commission, first being elected in the 2016 election. Prior to serving in the Commission, Dunn served as the mayor of Chandler, Arizona from 2002 to 2011. Dunn also served as a superior court judge. During the campaign, Dunn expressed doubts on the existence of climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in .... During his 2020 election for reelection to the Arizona Corporation Commission, Arizona Superior Court Judge Roger Brodman removed Dunn from the Republican primary, ending his bid for re-election after an 18-year old campaign worker admitted to forging some of the signatures on his nominating petition; there was no evidence of wrong-doing on Dunn's part. He was replaced by Republica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Tobin
Andrew Michael Tobin (born June 27, 1958) is the Director of the Arizona Department of Administration. He formerly was a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission and also served in the Arizona House of Representatives from the state's 1st district, and as former Speaker, beginning in 2011. He currently serves as the Director of the Arizona Department of Administration. In 2014 Tobin ran for Arizona's 1st congressional district against incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick (D), who won with 52.6% of the vote. He previously served as the appointed director of the State Department of Insurance and Interim Superintendent of the state Department of Financial Institutions. He additionally served nine months as director of the Arizona Weights and Measures Department. Tobin ran in 2016 for reelection to the Corporation Commission, he won in the Republican primary on August 30, 2016, and in the general election. Biography Tobin was born in 1958 as the second of six children in New York City t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Melvin (politician)
Albert Anthony Melvin (born November 3, 1944) is an American Republican politician who served in the Arizona Senate. Melvin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and earned his MBA from the American Graduate School in 1972. In 1994, he received his diploma from the U.S. Naval War College. He then served as a captain in the United States Navy, from 1997 to 1999 and a ship's officer for the American Maritime Officers (1999-2002). In 2002, he became a teacher for the University of Arizona and a consultant for the American Quality International Consulting. He served as a member of the Saddlebrook Republican Club, Pima County Republic Club, and the National Republican Committee. Melvin ran for the Arizona Senate in 2006 in the 26th Legislative District, beating incumbent Republican Senator Toni Hellon in the primary but was defeated by Democratic candidate Charlene Pesquiera in the general election. He ran for the same seat again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Elections, 2016
Elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, while Republicans retained control of Congress. This marked the first time Republicans won or held unified control of the presidency and Congress since 2004, and would not do so again until 2024. Democrats won a net gain of two seats in the Senate and six seats in the House of Representatives, but Republicans retained control of both chambers. In the gubernatorial elections, Republicans won a net gain of two seats. Various other state, territorial, and local races and referendums were held throughout the year. This was the first presidential election since 2000, where the winning candidate failed to have coattails in either house of Congress. This is the most recent election where one party simultaneously gained seats in both houses of Congress. Trump won his party's nomination after defeatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
