Arizona Republican Party

The Arizona Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the US state of Arizona. Its headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona."Home ." Arizona Republican Party. Retrieved on May 13, 2010. The party currently controls six of Arizona's nine United States House of Representatives seats, seventeen of thirty Arizona Senate seats, thirty-three of sixty Arizona House of Representatives seats, four of five seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission and three Statewide Executive Offices (Arizona State Treasurer, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Arizona State Mine Inspector)

Since 2020, the state party had significant Christian nationalist and far-right factions. The Arizona Republican Party played key roles in attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 United States presidential election and the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election.

History The organizational convention of the Republican Party in the Arizona Territory, chaired by James Churchman, was held on November 6–7, 1866, in Prescott, Arizona.

Republicans held both of the state's U.S. Senate seats between 1995 and 2019, and the governorship for all but six years between 1991 and 2023. Republican presidential candidates won the state in every election between 1996 and 2020.

The party's cash reserves fell from around $770,000 in 2019, to less than $50,000 in 2023. The organization spent $300,000 on legal counseling while attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and $500,000 on an election night party in 2022.

Current structure Here is the structure of the state party, as of Jan 2026.

Elected officers of the State Committee

Sergio Arellano, Chairman Jake Hoffman, National committeeman Liz Harris, National committeewoman Sherra Kissee, Secretary Ron Gould, Treasurer Shiry Sapir, First vice chairman Kevin Maldonado, Second vice chairman Nickie Kelley, Third Vice Chairman Carrie Hughes, Sergeant at Arms Shirley Dye, Assistant Secretary Young Mayberry, Assistant Treasurer Frank Antenori, Assistant Sergeant at Arms

State Executive Committee The 12 elected officers of the State Committee (listed above) The 15 county Republican chairmen, first-vice and second-vice chairmen The 28 Members-At-Large (three from each of nine congressional districts) National Committeeman and National Committeewoman (RNC members)

State Committee The 15 county Republican chairmen One member for each three elected Republican PCs

The chairman, Secretary and Treasurer elected at the biannual Statutory Meeting and other officers elected at the biannual Mandatory Meeting (except National Committeeman and Committeewoman, who are elected at quadrennial State Convention).

County committees County committees include all PCs within that county. They meet in January after general elections to elect a chairman, two vice chairs, a secretary and a treasurer.

Legislative district committees Legislative district committees exist in counties of more than 500,000 people (Maricopa and Pima Counties), and include all PCs within that district. Officers are elected at Organizational Meetings after the general election including a chairman, two vice chairs, a secretary and a treasurer.

Precinct committeemen Precinct committeemen are elected one per precinct, plus one additional for each 125 registered voters of that party as of March 1 of the general election year. There are over 1,666 precincts statewide (including over 724 precincts in Maricopa County.)

Federal officials These are the Republican Party members who hold federal offices.

U.S. Senate None

Both of Arizona's U.S. Senate seats have been held by the Democratic caucus since 2020. Martha McSally is the last Republican to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Appointed in 2019 by Governor Doug Ducey after the resignation of Jon Kyl who was appointed to the seat after the death of John McCain in 2018, McSally lost the 2020 special election to determine who would serve the remainder of the term expiring in 2023. McSally lost the special election to Democratic challenger Mark Kelly, who won a full term in 2022, defeating Blake Masters. John McCain is the last Republican elected to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate in 2016, while Jeff Flake is the last Republican to represent Arizona for a full term in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019.

U.S. House of Representatives Out of the nine seats Arizona is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, six are held by Republicans:

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State officials

Executive The Arizona Republican Party controls 8 of 11 elected statewide executive offices:

Tom Horne (Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction) Kimberly Yee (State Treasurer) Les Presmyk (State Mine Inspector) Kevin Thompson (Arizona Corporation Commission) Nick Meyers (Arizona Corporation Commission) Lea Marquez Peterson (Corporation Commissioner) Rene Lopez (Corporation Commissioner) Rachel Walden (Corporation Commissioner)

Senate The Arizona Republican Party holds the majority in the Arizona Senate, holding 17 of the 30 seats.

House The Arizona Republican Party holds the majority in the Arizona House of Representatives, holding 33 of the 60 seats.

Navajo Executives The Arizona Republican Party does not hold any power in the Navajo Nation government, the largest Native American tribe in the state, which controls the Four Corners. The last Republican elected to Navajo leadership was Myron Lizer, who served as vice president from 2019 to 2023.

Mayors

Jason Beck (Peoria) Steve Otto (Payson) Scott Anderson (Gilbert) Mark Stanton (Paradise Valley) Michael LeVault (Youngtown) Cal Sheehy (Lake Havasu City) Thomas Schoaf (Litchfield Park) Jon Thompson (Coolidge) Phil Goode (Prescott) Mark Freeman (Mesa) Kevin Hartle (Chandler) Byron Lewis (Snowflake)

Party chairs Party Chair Term Orme Lewis 1938–1940 Carl Divelbis 1948–1950 Richard Myers 1952–1954 Richard Kleindienst 1956–1960 Stephen Shadegg 1960–1961 Richard Kleindienst 1961–1963 Keith Brown 1963–1965 Harry Rosenzweig 1965–1976 James Colter 1976–1978 Thomas Pappas 1978–1983 John Munger 1983–1985 Burton Kruglick 1985–1991 Gerald Davis 1991–1993 Dodie Londen 1993–1997 Mike Hellon 1997–1999 Michael Minnaugh 1999–2001 Bob Fannin 2001–2005 Matt Salmon 2005–2007 Randy Pullen 2007–2011 Tom Morrissey 2011–2013 Robert Graham 2013–2017 Jonathan Lines 2017–2019 Kelli Ward 2019–2023 Jeff DeWit 2023–2024 Jill Norgaard 2024–2024 (interim) Gina Swoboda 2024–2026 Sergio Arellano 2026-

Election results

Presidential +Arizona Republican Party presidential election resultsElectionPresidential TicketVotesVote %Electoral votesResult1912William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler3,02112.7%1916Charles E. Hughes/Charles W. Fairbanks20,52435.4%1920Warren G. Harding/Calvin Coolidge37,01655.9%1924Calvin Coolidge/Charles G. Dawes30,51641.3%1928Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis52,53357.6%1932Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis36,10430.5%1936Alf Landon/Frank Knox33,43326.9%1940Wendell Willkie/Charles L. McNary54,03036.0%1944Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker56,28740.9%1948Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren77,59743.8%1952Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon152,04258.4%1956Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon176,99061.0%1960Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.221,24155.5%1964Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller242,53550.5%1968Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew266,72154.8%1972Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew402,81261.6%1976Gerald Ford/Bob Dole418,64256.4%1980Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush529,68860.6%1984Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush681,41666.4%1988George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle702,54160.0%1992George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle572,08638.5%1996Bob Dole/Jack Kemp622,07344.3%2000George W. Bush/Dick Cheney781,65251.0%2004George W. Bush/Dick Cheney1,104,29454.8%2008John McCain/Sarah Palin1,230,11153.4%2012Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan1,233,65453.5%2016Donald Trump/Mike Pence1,252,40148.1%2020Donald Trump/Mike Pence1,661,68649.1%2024Donald Trump/JD Vance1,763,03752.2%

Gubernatorial +Arizona Republican Party gubernatorial election resultsElectionGubernatorial candidateVotesVote %Result1911Edmund W. Wells9,16642.4%Lost 1914Ralph H. Cameron17,60234.5%Lost 1916Thomas E. Campbell28,05147.9%Lost 1918Thomas E. Campbell25,92749.9%Won 1920Thomas E. Campbell37,06054.2%Won 1922Thomas E. Campbell30,59945.1%Lost 1924Dwight B. Heard37,57149.5%Lost 1926Elis S. Clark39,58049.8%Lost 1928John Calhoun Phillips47,82951.7%Won 1930John Calhoun Phillips46,23148.6%Lost 1932J. C. "Jack" Kinney42,20235.4%Lost 1934Thomas Maddock39,24238.2%Lost 1936Thomas E. Campbell36,11429.1%Lost 1938Jerrie W. Lee32,02227.3%Lost 1940Jerrie W. Lee50,35833.8%Lost 1942Jerrie W. Lee23,56226.9%Lost 1944Jerrie W. Lee27,26121.2%Lost 1946Bruce Brockett48,86739.9%Lost 1948Bruce Brockett70,41940.1%Lost 1950John Howard Pyle99,10950.8%Won 1952John Howard Pyle156,59260.2%Won 1954John Howard Pyle115,86647.5%Lost 1956Horace B. Griffen116,74440.5%Lost 1958Paul Fannin160,13655.1%Won 1960Paul Fannin235,50259.3%Won 1962Paul Fannin200,57854.8%Won 1964Richard Kleindienst221,40446.8%Lost 1966Jack Williams203,43853.8%Won 1968Jack Williams279,92357.8%Won 1970Jack Williams209,35650.9%Won 1974Russell Williams273,67449.6%Lost 1978Evan Mecham241,09344.8%Lost 1982Leo Corbet235,87732.5%Lost 1986Evan Mecham343,91339.7%Won 1990 (runoff)Fife Symington III492,56952.4%Won 1994Fife Symington III593,49252.5%Won 1998Jane Dee Hull620,18861.0%Won 2002Matt Salmon554,46545.2%Lost 2006Len Munsil543,52835.4%Lost 2010Jan Brewer938,93454.3%Won 2014Doug Ducey805,06253.4%Won 2018Doug Ducey1,330,86356.0%Won 2022Kari Lake1,270,77449.7%Lost

Former prominent Arizona Republicans

United States delegates Charles Debrille Poston (1864–1865) John Noble Goodwin (1865–1867) Curtis Coe Bean (1885–1887) Nathan Oakes Murphy (1895–1897) Ralph Henry Cameron (1909–1912)

United States senators

Ralph H. Cameron (1921–1927) Paul Fannin (1965–1977) Barry Goldwater (1953–1965, 1969–1987) John McCain (1987–2018) Jon Kyl (1995–2013, 2018) Jeff Flake (2013–2019) Martha McSally (2019–2020)

United States representatives

John Jacob Rhodes (AZ-1) (1953–1983) John McCain (AZ-1) (1983–1987) John Jacob Rhodes III (AZ-1) (1987–1993) Matt Salmon (AZ-1) (1995–2001) Jeff Flake (AZ-1) (2001–2013) Rick Renzi (AZ-1) (2003–2009) Sam Steiger (AZ-3) (1967–1977) Bob Stump (AZ-3) (1983–2003) John Bertrand Conlan (AZ-4) (1973–1977) Eldon D. Rudd (AZ-4) (1977–1987) Jon Kyl (AZ-4) (1987–1995) John B. Shadegg (AZ-4) (1995–2003) Jim Kolbe (AZ-5) (1985–2003) J. D. Hayworth (AZ-5) (2003–2007) J. D. Hayworth (AZ-6) (1995–2003) Jim Kolbe (AZ-8) (2003–2007)

Territorial governors

John Noble Goodwin (1863–1865) Richard Cunningham McCormick (1866–1869) Anson P.K. Safford (1869–1877) John Philo Hoyt (1877–1878) John C. Frémont (1878–1881) Frederick Augustus Tritle (1882–1885) Lewis Wolfley (1889–1890) John N. Irwin (1891–1892) Nathan Oakes Murphy (1892–1893, 1898–1902) Myron H. McCord (1897–1898) Alexander Oswald Brodie (1902–1905) Joseph Henry Kibbey (1905–1909) Richard Elihu Sloan (1909–1912)

State governors Thomas Edward Campbell (1917, 1919–1923) John Calhoun Phillips (1929–1931) John Howard Pyle (1951–1955) Paul Fannin (1959–1965) Jack Richard Williams (1967–1975) Evan Mecham (1987–1988) Fife Symington III (1991–1997) Jane Dee Hull (1997–2003) Jan Brewer (2009 - 2015) Doug Ducey (2015–2023)

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