{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-az",
  "name": "Arizona",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/az",
  "slug": "az",
  "state": "az",
  "state_name": "Arizona",
  "state_id": "us-az"
 },
 "question": "How did Arizona vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Ruben Gallego (Democrat) won by 2.4 points",
  "value": 2.4,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Ruben Gallego (Democrat) 50.1%, Kari Lake (Republican) 47.7%, Eduardo Quintana (Independent) 2.3%",
   "3,347,964 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Arizona since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 6 and Republicans in 11.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       10.672,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -1.075,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       16.608,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       -20.962,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       15.658,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       -24.244,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -14.163,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -41.583,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -79.323,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -56.119,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -9.842,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -24.209,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       -3.027,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -12.961,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       2.345,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       4.887,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       2.406,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 741210,
    "votes": {
     "Dennis Deconcini": 400334,
     "Sam Steiger": 321236,
     "Bob Field": 10765,
     "Allan Norwitz": 7310,
     "Wm. Mathews Feighan": 1565
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 874238,
    "votes": {
     "Barry Goldwater": 432371,
     "Bill Schulz": 422972,
     "Fred R. Esser": 12008,
     "Lorenzo Torrez": 3608,
     "Josefina Otero": 3266
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 723885,
    "votes": {
     "Dennis Deconcini": 411970,
     "Pete Dunn": 291749,
     "Randall \"pete Bardo\" Clamons": 20100
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 862921,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 521850,
     "Richard Kimball": 340965
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1164539,
    "votes": {
     "Dennis Deconcini": 660403,
     "Keith Degreen": 478060,
     "Rick Tompkins": 20849,
     "Ed Finkelstein": 5195
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1382051,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 771395,
     "Claire Sargent": 436321,
     "Evan Mecham": 145361,
     "Kiana Delamare": 22613,
     "Ed Finkelstein": 6335
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1119060,
    "votes": {
     "Jon Kyl": 600999,
     "Sam Coppersmith": 442510,
     "Scott Grainger": 75493
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1013280,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 696577,
     "Ed Ranger": 275224,
     "John C. Zajac": 23004,
     "Bob Park": 18288
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1397076,
    "votes": {
     "Jon Kyl": 1108196,
     "William Toel": 109230,
     "Vance Hansen": 108926,
     "Barry J. Hess Ii": 70724
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1961677,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 1505372,
     "Stuart Starky": 404507,
     "Ernest Hancock": 51798
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1526782,
    "votes": {
     "Jon Kyl": 814398,
     "Jim Pederson": 664141,
     "Richard Mack": 48231
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1708484,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 1005615,
     "Rodney Glassman": 592011,
     "David F. Nolan": 80097,
     "Jerry Joslyn": 24603
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2243422,
    "votes": {
     "Jeff Flake": 1104457,
     "Richard Carmona": 1036542,
     "Marc Victor": 102109
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2530730,
    "votes": {
     "John Mccain": 1359267,
     "Ann Kirkpatrick": 1031245,
     "Gary Swing": 138634
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2384308,
    "votes": {
     "Kyrsten Sinema": 1191100,
     "Martha Mcsally": 1135200,
     "Angela Green": 57442
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3355307,
    "votes": {
     "Mark Kelly": 1716467,
     "Martha Mcsally": 1637661
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2572294,
    "votes": {
     "Mark Kelly": 1322027,
     "Blake Masters": 1196308,
     "Marc J. Victor": 53762,
     "Roxanne Renee Rodriguez": 20
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3347964,
    "votes": {
     "Ruben Gallego": 1676335,
     "Kari Lake": 1595761,
     "Eduardo Quintana": 75868
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Ruben Gallego (D) 50.1%",
    "Kari Lake (R) 47.7%",
    "2.4 pts",
    "3,347,964"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Mark Kelly (D) 51.4%",
    "Blake Masters (R) 46.5%",
    "4.9 pts",
    "2,572,294"
   ],
   [
    "2020 special",
    "Mark Kelly (D) 51.2%",
    "Martha Mcsally (R) 48.8%",
    "2.3 pts",
    "3,355,307"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Kyrsten Sinema (D) 50.0%",
    "Martha Mcsally (R) 47.6%",
    "2.3 pts",
    "2,384,308"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "John Mccain (R) 53.7%",
    "Ann Kirkpatrick (D) 40.7%",
    "13.0 pts",
    "2,530,730"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Jeff Flake (R) 49.2%",
    "Richard Carmona (D) 46.2%",
    "3.0 pts",
    "2,243,422"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "John Mccain (R) 58.9%",
    "Rodney Glassman (D) 34.7%",
    "24.2 pts",
    "1,708,484"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Jon Kyl (R) 53.3%",
    "Jim Pederson (D) 43.5%",
    "9.8 pts",
    "1,526,782"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "John Mccain (R) 76.7%",
    "Stuart Starky (D) 20.6%",
    "56.1 pts",
    "1,961,677"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Jon Kyl (R) 79.3%",
    "William Toel (I) 7.8%",
    "71.5 pts",
    "1,397,076"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "John Mccain (R) 68.7%",
    "Ed Ranger (D) 27.2%",
    "41.6 pts",
    "1,013,280"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Jon Kyl (R) 53.7%",
    "Sam Coppersmith (D) 39.5%",
    "14.2 pts",
    "1,119,060"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "John Mccain (R) 55.8%",
    "Claire Sargent (D) 31.6%",
    "24.2 pts",
    "1,382,051"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Dennis Deconcini (D) 56.7%",
    "Keith Degreen (R) 41.1%",
    "15.7 pts",
    "1,164,539"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "John Mccain (R) 60.5%",
    "Richard Kimball (D) 39.5%",
    "21.0 pts",
    "862,921"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Dennis Deconcini (D) 56.9%",
    "Pete Dunn (R) 40.3%",
    "16.6 pts",
    "723,885"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Barry Goldwater (R) 49.5%",
    "Bill Schulz (D) 48.4%",
    "1.1 pts",
    "874,238"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Dennis Deconcini (D) 54.0%",
    "Sam Steiger (R) 43.3%",
    "10.7 pts",
    "741,210"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-az/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}