Arizona voters chose officials and decided ballot measures at the local, state and federal levels Tuesday. Votes are still being counted in Pima County and across the state.

U.S. House of Representatives

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State-level elected officials

Democrat Katie Hobbs won election Wednesday as governor of Arizona, defeating Republican Andy Biggs. Hobbs won despite being viewed as the most vulnerable Democratic governor in the country. She courted disaffected Republicans and independent voters to win a second term in the swing state. Hobbs also picked a former Republican, former Mesa mayor John Giles, as her running mate. The Associated Press declared Hobbs the winner at 1:20 a.m. Arizona time. Source: AP

Arizona State Senate

Democrat Edgar Soto took a commanding lead over his Republican challenger Christopher King for the open Arizona Senate District 17 seat, after the first batch of unofficial voting results Tuesday. On Wednesday morning Soto leads by 9 percentage points with an estimated 83.8% of votes counted.

If the lead holds, Soto will flip a seat currently held by Republican State Sen. Vince Leach, who did not seek re-election.

Soto was cautious on Tuesday night, refusing to claim victory until all the votes were counted. But he hoped that flipping the seat would finally hand control of the Legislature to Democrats, an elusive goal over numerous cycles.

“It means that you’re gonna have a governor, secretary of state, an attorney general that are gonna have a Legislature they could potentially work with,” he said. “I think we can solve some real problems.”

District 17 spans the north and eastern suburbs around the Tucson metro area.

Arizona State House

In the highly competitive District 16, the Democrats’ “bullet voting” strategy may have worked. Bullet voting is when a party runs only one candidate in a race where voters can pick two, and urges supporters to vote for just that person, so their votes aren’t split and that candidate has a better shot at finishing in the top two.

Casa Grande Republican incumbents Teresa Martinez and Chris Lopez are both seeking reelection and Democrat Julia Romero Gusse is leading in unofficial results as of Wendesday morning.

And in the highly competitive District 17 race, the Democrats may have flipped a seat.

The incumbents, Republican Rachel Jones Keshel and Democrat Kevin Volk are seeking reelection. The challengers are Republican John Winchester and Democrat Hollace “Holly” Lyon. The two Democrats are leading in unofficial results as of Wendesday morning.

Statewide propositions

Local propositions

South Tucson City Council

School boards

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