United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2014

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	2014 U.S. Senate Elections

The 2014 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Arizona took place on November 4, 2014. Voters elected nine candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's nine congressional districts.

Candidate Filing Deadline	Primary Election	General Election
May 28, 2014	August 26, 2014	November 4, 2014

Primary: A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Arizona utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may choose which party's primary they will vote in, but voters registered with a party can only vote in that party's primary.^[1]^[2]^[3]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

Voter registration: To vote in the primary, voters had to register by July 28, 2014. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 6, 2014.^[4]

See also: Arizona elections, 2014

Battleground races

Arizona was home to three battleground districts in 2014: Arizona's 1st Congressional District, Arizona's 2nd Congressional District and Arizona's 9th Congressional District. All three of these districts were held by Democratic incumbents.

District 1

See also: Arizona's 1st Congressional District elections, 2014

Arizona's 1st Congressional District was a battleground in 2014. Incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick (D) sought re-election in a district with a Republican lean.^[5]^[6] Additionally, Kirkpatrick won the district in 2012 by under 4 percent, and the Republican presidential candidate won the district in both 2012 and 2008.

Kirkpatrick won re-election, defeating Andy Tobin (R) in the general election.

District 2

See also: Arizona's 2nd Congressional District elections, 2014

Arizona's 2nd Congressional District was held by a Democrat heading into the election, but the district had roughly even numbers of registered Democrats and Republicans and was won by the Republican presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012. Incumbent Ron Barber faced no challenger in the Democratic primary. In the Republican primary, Martha McSally defeated Chuck Wooten and Shelley Kais. Barber and McSally faced off in the general election on November 4, 2014, in a rematch of the 2012 general election. The election took over six weeks to decide, and McSally was declared the winner following a mandatory recount that took place after the official canvass and certification of votes on December 1. In 2012, Barber defeated McSally by 0.8 percent of the vote.^[7]^[8]^[9]

District 9

See also: Arizona's 9th Congressional District elections, 2014

Arizona's 9th Congressional District was a battleground in 2014. Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema (D) sought re-election in a district with relatively even numbers of registered Democrats and Republicans.^[5]^[6] Sinema was a freshman incumbent who won election in 2012 by just over 4 percent of the vote. The district was won by President Barack Obama by roughly 4 percent in both 2012 and 2008.

Sinema won re-election, defeating Wendy Rogers (R) in the November general election.

Partisan breakdown

Heading into the November 4 election, the Democratic Party held five of the nine congressional seats from Arizona.

Members of the U.S. House from Arizona -- Partisan Breakdown
Party		As of November 2014	After the 2014 Election
	Democratic Party	5	4
	Republican Party	4	5
Total		9	9

Incumbents

Heading into the 2014 election, the incumbents for the nine congressional districts were:

Name	Party	District
Ann Kirkpatrick	Democratic	1
Ron Barber	Democratic	2
Raul Grijalva	Democratic	3
Paul Gosar	Republican	4
Matt Salmon	Republican	5
David Schweikert	Republican	6
Ed Pastor	Democratic	7
Trent Franks	Republican	8
Kyrsten Sinema	Democratic	9

Margin of victory for winners

There were a total of 9 seats up for election in 2014 in Arizona. The following table shows the margin of victory for each district winner, which is calculated by examining the percentage difference between the two candidates who received the most votes. If the race was uncontested, the margin of victory is listed as 100 percent.

District	Winner	Margin of Victory	Total Vote	Top Opponent
District 1	Ann Kirkpatrick	5.2%	185,114	Andy Tobin
District 2	Martha McSally	0.1%	219,351	Ron Barber
District 3	Raul Grijalva	11.5%	104,428	Gabriela Saucedo Mercer
District 4	Paul Gosar	44.2%	175,179	Mikel Weisser
District 5	Matt Salmon	39.2%	179,463	James Woods
District 6	David Schweikert	29.7%	199,776	John Williamson
District 7	Ruben Gallego	60.1%	72,454	Joe Cobb
District 8	Trent Franks	51.6%	169,776	Stephen Dolgos
District 9	Kyrsten Sinema	12.8%	162,062	Wendy Rogers