Elections

A recount of votes has confirmed Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in the Arizona attorney general’s race, one of the closest elections in state history.

The apparently losing candidate for attorney general is asking a judge to block the secretary of state from declaring Kris Mayes the winner.

Democrat Kris Mayes will be the next attorney general of Arizona, pending a recount.

Arizona voters who overwhelmingly cast their ballots by mail have rejected a measure that would have required them to add more information to the simple signature and date they now put on the back of the return envelope.

Governor-elect Katie Hobbs laid out her priorities for the next four years, promising to work with the Republican-controlled Legislature to solve problems — but with a political warning to those who choose a different path.

Lyana Mazon and Brianne Wolcott were elected to the two seats on the Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board Nov. 8.

Margins between Democrats and Republicans narrowed considerably Wednesday in key Arizona races as election officials chipped away at counting more than half a million mail ballots returned on Election Day and shortly before.

Cyndi Thomas won re-election and Marcia Hilborn also claimed a seat on the Chino Valley Unified School District Governing Board Tuesday night, according to unofficial results.

The dynamics of the state and local election process with votes still being tallied into the early hours Wednesday, and likely continuing throughout the week, changed the course of one local Governing Board race and prompted an incumbent in another to congratulate two new board candidates.

The appeal of Donald Trump’s movement was put to the test Tuesday in the race for governor of Arizona, a crucial battleground state where the former president’s allies have taken control of the Republican Party.

The unofficial results as of Tuesday night, Nov. 8, saw newcomers Lyana Mazon with 6,367 votes, and Brianne Wolcott with 6,150 votes, in the lead for the two seats up for election on the Humboldt Unified School District Governing Board.

Beneath a sign that predicted a “red wave” for the Yavapai County Republican Party, the three GOP candidates for the Arizona State Legislature in District 1 ended election night on Tuesday, Nov. 8 with comfortable leads.

In the most contested, and contentious, Governing Board race in recent Prescott history, the voters appear to have opted to support the pro-district team of candidates for both the two, four-year seats and the two-year seat that included an incumbent and a first-time Republican conservative candidate.

Following are the unofficial results as reported by Yavapai County Elections and the Arizona Secretary of State's Office - as of 9 a.m. Thursday, with 100% precincts reporting in the county and 100% statewide.

Authorities on Sunday were investigating an envelope that reportedly contained suspicious white powder that was opened at the Phoenix campaign headquarters of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.