# 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. The party currently controls six of Arizona's nine U.S. House seats, seventeen of thirty State Senate seats, thirty-three of sixty State House of Representatives seats, four of five seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission and three Statewide Executive Offices (State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and State Mine Inspector)
Since 2020, the state party has 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 Feb 2019.

### Elected officers of the State Committee

* Gina Swoboda, Chairwoman
* Jake Hoffman, National committeeman
* Liz Harris, National committeewoman
* Nickie Kelley, Secretary
* Ron Gould, Treasurer
* Gina Maloney, First vice chairman
* Shiry Sapir, Second vice chairman
* Kris Morrissey, Third Vice Chairman
* Carrie Hughes, Sergeant at Arms
* Shirley Dye, Assistant Secretary
* Elizabeth Kennedy, Assistant Treasurer
* Branden Turley, 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:
* AZ-01: David Schweikert
* AZ-02: Eli Crane
* AZ-05: Andy Biggs
* AZ-06: Juan Ciscomani
* AZ-08: Abraham Hamadeh
* AZ-09: Paul Gosar

## State officials
### Executive

The Arizona Republican Party controls 7 of 11 elected statewide executive offices:
* Tom Horne (Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction)
* Kimberly Yee (State Treasurer)
* Paul Marsh (State Mine Inspector)
* Kevin Thompson (Arizona Corporation Commission)
* Nick Meyers (Arizona Corporation Commission)
* Lea Marquez Peterson (Corporation Commissioner)
* Justin Olson (Corporation Commissioner)
* Jim O’Connor (Corporation Commissioner)

### Senate

The Arizona Republican Party holds the majority in the Arizona Senate, holding 16 of the 30 seats.

### House

The Arizona Republican Party holds the majority in the Arizona House of Representatives, holding 31 of the 60 seats.

## Mayors

* Gail Barney (Queen Creek)
* Jason Beck (Peoria)
* Kenny Evans (Payson)
* Ed Honea (Marana)
* John Insalaco (Apache Junction)
* Bridgette Petersen (Gilbert)
* Scott LeMarr (Paradise Valley)
* Michael LeVault (Youngtown)
* Georgia Lord (Goodyear)
* Cal Sheehy (Lake Havasu City)
* Lana Mook (El Mirage)
* Christian Price (Maricopa)
* Thomas Schoaf (Litchfield Park)
* Thomas Shope (Coolidge)
* Greg Mengarelli (Prescott)
* John Giles (Mesa)
* Kevin Hartle
* 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–present |

## Election results
### Presidential

Arizona Republican Party presidential election results :
| Election | Presidential Ticket | Votes | Vote % | Electoral votes | Result |
| 1912 | William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler | 3,021 | 12.7% | 0 / 3 | Lost |
| 1916 | Charles E. Hughes/Charles W. Fairbanks | 20,524 | 35.4% | 0 / 3 | Lost |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding/Calvin Coolidge | 37,016 | 55.9% | 3 / 3 | Won |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge/Charles G. Dawes | 30,516 | 41.3% | 3 / 3 | Won |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis | 52,533 | 57.6% | 3 / 3 | Won |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis | 36,104 | 30.5% | 0 / 3 | Lost |
| 1936 | Alf Landon/Frank Knox | 33,433 | 26.9% | 0 / 3 | Lost |
| 1940 | Wendell Willkie/Charles L. McNary | 54,030 | 36.0% | 0 / 3 | Lost |
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker | 56,287 | 40.9% | 0 / 4 | Lost |
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren | 77,597 | 43.8% | 0 / 4 | Lost |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon | 152,042 | 58.4% | 4 / 4 | Won |
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon | 176,990 | 61.0% | 4 / 4 | Won |
| 1960 | Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | 221,241 | 55.5% | 4 / 4 | Lost |
| 1964 | Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller | 242,535 | 50.5% | 5 / 5 | Lost |
| 1968 | Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew | 266,721 | 54.8% | 5 / 5 | Won |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew | 402,812 | 61.6% | 6 / 6 | Won |
| 1976 | Gerald Ford/Bob Dole | 418,642 | 56.4% | 6 / 6 | Lost |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush | 529,688 | 60.6% | 6 / 6 | Won |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush | 681,416 | 66.4% | 7 / 7 | Won |
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle | 702,541 | 60.0% | 7 / 7 | Won |
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle | 572,086 | 38.5% | 8 / 8 | Lost |
| 1996 | Bob Dole/Jack Kemp | 622,073 | 44.3% | 0 / 8 | Lost |
| 2000 | George W. Bush/Dick Cheney | 781,652 | 51.0% | 8 / 8 | Won |
| 2004 | George W. Bush/Dick Cheney | 1,104,294 | 54.8% | 10 / 10 | Won |
| 2008 | John McCain/Sarah Palin | 1,230,111 | 53.4% | 10 / 10 | Lost |
| 2012 | Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan | 1,233,654 | 53.5% | 11 / 11 | Lost |
| 2016 | Donald Trump/Mike Pence | 1,252,401 | 48.1% | 11 / 11 | Won |
| 2020 | Donald Trump/Mike Pence | 1,661,686 | 49.1% | 0 / 11 | Lost |
| 2024 | Donald Trump/JD Vance | 1,763,037 | 52.2% | 11 / 11 | Won |

### Gubernatorial

Arizona Republican Party gubernatorial election results :
| Election | Gubernatorial candidate | Votes | Vote % | Result |
| 1911 | Edmund W. Wells | 9,166 | 42.4% | Lost N |
| 1914 | Ralph H. Cameron | 17,602 | 34.5% | Lost N |
| 1916 | Thomas E. Campbell | 28,051 | 47.9% | Lost N |
| 1918 | Thomas E. Campbell | 25,927 | 49.9% | Won Y |
| 1920 | Thomas E. Campbell | 37,060 | 54.2% | Won Y |
| 1922 | Thomas E. Campbell | 30,599 | 45.1% | Lost N |
| 1924 | Dwight B. Heard | 37,571 | 49.5% | Lost N |
| 1926 | Elis S. Clark | 39,580 | 49.8% | Lost N |
| 1928 | John Calhoun Phillips | 47,829 | 51.7% | Won Y |
| 1930 | John Calhoun Phillips | 46,231 | 48.6% | Lost N |
| 1932 | J. C. "Jack" Kinney | 42,202 | 35.4% | Lost N |
| 1934 | Thomas Maddock | 39,242 | 38.2% | Lost N |
| 1936 | Thomas E. Campbell | 36,114 | 29.1% | Lost N |
| 1938 | Jerrie W. Lee | 32,022 | 27.3% | Lost N |
| 1940 | Jerrie W. Lee | 50,358 | 33.8% | Lost N |
| 1942 | Jerrie W. Lee | 23,562 | 26.9% | Lost N |
| 1944 | Jerrie W. Lee | 27,261 | 21.2% | Lost N |
| 1946 | Bruce Brockett | 48,867 | 39.9% | Lost N |
| 1948 | Bruce Brockett | 70,419 | 40.1% | Lost N |
| 1950 | John Howard Pyle | 99,109 | 50.8% | Won Y |
| 1952 | John Howard Pyle | 156,592 | 60.2% | Won Y |
| 1954 | John Howard Pyle | 115,866 | 47.5% | Lost N |
| 1956 | Horace B. Griffen | 116,744 | 40.5% | Lost N |
| 1958 | Paul Fannin | 160,136 | 55.1% | Won Y |
| 1960 | Paul Fannin | 235,502 | 59.3% | Won Y |
| 1962 | Paul Fannin | 200,578 | 54.8% | Won Y |
| 1964 | Richard Kleindienst | 221,404 | 46.8% | Lost N |
| 1966 | Jack Williams | 203,438 | 53.8% | Won Y |
| 1968 | Jack Williams | 279,923 | 57.8% | Won Y |
| 1970 | Jack Williams | 209,356 | 50.9% | Won Y |
| 1974 | Russell Williams | 273,674 | 49.6% | Lost N |
| 1978 | Evan Mecham | 241,093 | 44.8% | Lost N |
| 1982 | Leo Corbet | 235,877 | 32.5% | Lost N |
| 1986 | Evan Mecham | 343,913 | 39.7% | Won Y |
| 1990 (runoff) | Fife Symington III | 492,569 | 52.4% | Won Y |
| 1994 | Fife Symington III | 593,492 | 52.5% | Won Y |
| 1998 | Jane Dee Hull | 620,188 | 61.0% | Won Y |
| 2002 | Matt Salmon | 554,465 | 45.2% | Lost N |
| 2006 | Len Munsil | 543,528 | 35.4% | Lost N |
| 2010 | Jan Brewer | 938,934 | 54.3% | Won Y |
| 2014 | Doug Ducey | 805,062 | 53.4% | Won Y |
| 2018 | Doug Ducey | 1,330,863 | 56.0% | Won Y |
| 2022 | Kari Lake | 1,270,774 | 49.7% | Lost N |

## 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)