Arizona 2014 Election Results

Arizona held its general election on November 4, 2014, deciding 90 legislative seats across 60 districts and 6 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans kept their trifecta and won every statewide office on the ballot, led by Doug Ducey (R) in the open governor's race, while both legislative chambers ended exactly where they started, at 36-24 in the House and 17-13 in the Senate.
• Ducey beat Fred DuVal (D) by about 12 points in Arizona's first wide-open governor's race in 12 years. Down the ballot, Michele Reagan (R) beat Terry Goddard (D) for secretary of state by about 4 points, and Mark Brnovich (R) beat Felecia Rotellini (D) for attorney general by about 6 points. Republicans Doug Little and Tom Forese took both Corporation Commission seats, and Jeff DeWit (R) won the treasurer's office without opposition.
• The closest statewide race was for schools chief, which Diane M. Douglas (R) won by about 1 point over David Garcia (D). Douglas, who had unseated Superintendent John Huppenthal in the August primary, wanted to abolish Common Core standards. Garcia, an Arizona State University professor, supported them.
• In the Legislature, 2 House seats changed hands, one in each direction, and each cost an incumbent their seat:
  • In Tucson's District 9, Victoria Steele (D) and Randall Friese (D) ousted first-term Rep. Ethan Orr (R), who finished about 130 votes behind Friese for the second seat.
  • In two-seat District 2, John Christopher Ackerley (R) won a seat, pushing Rep. Demion Clinco (D) to third.
• Voters passed 2 of 3 measures. Proposition 303 made Arizona the first state to put "right to try" directly to voters, letting terminally ill patients obtain drugs not yet approved by the FDA, and Proposition 122 narrowly passed, permitting the state to refuse to enforce federal actions it deems unconstitutional. Proposition 304, a legislative pay raise from $24,000 to $35,000 a year, failed.

Legislature

• House (60 seats): 24 D, 36 R before the election, 24 D, 36 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (30 seats): 12 D, 17 R, 1 other or vacant before the election, 13 D, 17 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures