2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona


The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Arizona, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 30.

Overview

Statewide

By district

Results of the 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona by district:

District 1

Incumbent Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously between 2009 and 2011, ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by John McCain. She was re-elected in 2014 with 52% of the vote.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Republican primary

On the Republican side, rancher and candidate for the seat in 2014 Gary Kiehne ran again. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu also ran in the primary.

Candidates

Nominee

Debate

Results

General election

Endorsements

Debate

Polling

Predictions

Results

District 2

Incumbent Republican Martha McSally, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. She defeated Democratic incumbent Ron Barber in 2014 with 50% of the vote

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Martha McSally, incumbent U.S. representative

    Results

Democratic primary

State Representative Bruce Wheeler had formed an exploratory committee to run for the Democratic nomination, but decided not to run after having surgery to repair a torn retina.

Candidates

Nominee

Results

General election

Endorsements

Polling

Predictions

Results

District 3

Incumbent Democrat Raúl Grijalva who had represented the district since 2003, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 55.7% of the vote.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Raúl Grijalva, incumbent U.S. Representative
    Declined
  • James Villarreal, Senior Propulsion Engineer at Raytheon and University of Arizona instructor

    Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Declined
  • Edna San Miguel, artist and former teacher

    General election

Grijalva faced only Libertarian write-in candidate Mike Ross in the general election. The Arizona secretary of state reported no results for Ross.

Endorsements

Predictions

Results

District 4

Incumbent Republican Paul Gosar, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election. He was re-elected to a third term in 2014 with 70% of the vote.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Paul Gosar, incumbent U.S. representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Ray Strauss, Buckeye City Councilman

    Endorsements

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Mikel Weisser, homeless shelter administrator, candidate for this seat in 2012 and nominee in 2014

    Results

General election

Predictions

Results

District 5

Incumbent Republican Matt Salmon, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously between 1995 and 2001, did not run for reelection.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Independent

Candidates

  • Randall Sand, small business owner
  • Randall Sand is/was a fake political persona created by Jake Hoffman of Rally Forge. The fake politician persona was Randall Sand, who described himself on his campaign website as an Independent Candidate for Arizona's Fifth Congressional District. His Twitter Page similarly lists him as a "Former Independent Congressional write-in candidate." Sand's Facebook presence used a photo of film director Derrick Acosta, and posted a doctored image of a Derrick Acosta interview. The Page also shared several doctored images of news story headlines purporting to be from local press featuring Randall Sand; however, the articles do not appear to exist on the newspaper sites.

    General election

Predictions

Results

District 6

Incumbent Republican David Schweikert, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 65% of the vote.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • David Schweikert, incumbent U.S. Representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Russ Wittenberg

    Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • W. John Williamson, candidate for this seat in 2012 and nominee in 2014
    Eliminated in primary
  • Brian Sinuk

    Results

General election

Predictions

Results

District 7

Incumbent Democrat Ruben Gallego, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. He was first elected to this district in 2014 with 75% of the vote.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Ruben Gallego, incumbent U.S. Representative

    Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Eve Nunez

    Results

General election

Endorsements

Predictions

Results

District 8

Incumbent Republican Trent Franks, who had represented the district since 2003, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 75% of the vote.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Trent Franks, incumbent U.S. Representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Clair Van Steenwyk

    Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

  • Joe DeVivo
DeVivo did not receive enough write-in votes to qualify for nomination.

Results

Green Primary

Candidates

  • Mark Salazar
Salazar qualified by receiving enough write-in votes.

General election

Predictions

Results

District 9

Incumbent Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Kyrsten Sinema, incumbent U.S. Representative

    Results

Republican primary

John Agra was favored to win the Republican nomination.