Sunday, April 10, 2022

Democratic candidates on the ballot but not facing a primary contest

In lieu of a committee update (whether or not someone may have formed a committee, unless they're on a ballot, it's irrelevant), I'll be discussing Democratic candidates who don't face primary contests; most will go on to face Republican candidates in November.  A few, by virtue of facing no other candidates in either the primary election or the general election, are presumed to be already elected*.


*Subject to change based on legal challenges and/or write in candidates.

I make no predictions concerning the outcome of pending litigation, and while write-in campaigns are tough to win (to appear on a general election ballot, not only does a write-in candidate have to win their primary, they must receive a number of votes equal to or greater than the quantity of nominating signatures they would have needed to present to have their name on the primary ballot), it *has* been done.

The Arizona Secretary of State has a list of candidates who have submitted signatures; federal, statewide, legislative.

AzBlueMeanie at Blog for Arizona has a full list of federal candidates here and a full list of state-level candidates here.

Jim Small at the AZ Mirror also has a full list of candidates here.

The map of the new congressional districts is here.




















The map of the new legislative districts is here.





















Caveat: I live in CD3 and LD5.

Caveat2: When candidates' names are linked to websites, most of those came from AZSOS information.


Federal candidates:


Mark Kelly, U.S. Senate, incumbent


Tom O'Halleran, Congress CD2, incumbent


Ruben Gallego, Congress CD3, incumbent


Greg Stanton, Congress CD4, incumbent


Javier Ramos, Congress CD5


Raul Grijalva, Congress CD7, incumbent



Statewide candidates:


Kris Mayes, Attorney General


Martin Quezada, Treasurer


Kathy Hoffman, Superintendent of Public Instruction, incumbent


Sandra Kennedy, Corporation Commission, incumbent


Lauren Kuby, Corporation Commission

(no primary as both will go on to the general election to face the winners of the R primary)



Legislative candidates:


Mike Fogel, State Senate LD1


Thomas Dugger, State Senate LD3


Christine Marsh, State Senate LD4, incumbent


Theresa Hatathlie, State Senate LD6, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general


Kyle Nitschke, State Senate LD7


Juan Mendez, State Senate LD8


Eva Burch, State Senate LD9


Mitzi Epstein, State Senate LD12, not an incumbent senator, but she is a member of the legislature


Taylor Kerby, State Senate LD16


Mike Nickerson, State Senate LD17


Sally Gonzales, State Senate LD20, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general


Rosanna Gabaldon, State Senate LD21, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general


Brian Fernandez, State Senate LD23


Raquel Teran, State Senate LD26, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general


David Sandoval, State Senate LD28


Cathy Ransom, State Representative LD1

Neil Sinclair, State Representative LD1

Since two candidates will be elected to the state house from each district, races with only one or teo Democrats with be considered as "no primary" and will be listed here without a further note.


Judy Schwiebert, State Representative LD2, incumbent


Laura Terech, State Representative LD4


Melody Hernandez, State Representative LD8, incumbent

Athena Salman, State Representative LD8, incumbent


Lorena Austin, State Representative LD9

Seth Blattman, State Representative LD9


Helen Hunter, State Representative LD10


Jennifer Pawlik, State Representative LD13, incumbent


Brandy Reese, State Representative LD14


Keith Seaman, State Representative LD16


Dana Allmond, State Representative LD17

Brian Radford, State Representative LD17


Sanda Clark, State Representative LD19


Andres Cano, State Representative LD20, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general

Alma Hernandez, State Representative LD20, incumbent, faces no Rs in the general

They *do* face a Libertarian candidate in the general election, but the next time that a Libertarian wins an election will be the first time.


Jesus Lugo Jr., State Representative LD23

Mariana Sandoval, State Representative LD23


Stephanie Holbrook, State Representative LD28


Scott Podeyn, State Representative LD29



The list of Maricopa County candidates is here.

Julie Gunnigle is the only Democrat running for Maricopa County Attorney,

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