2020 United States Senate special election in Arizona

2020 United States Senate special election in Arizona

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Nominee Mark Kelly Martha McSally Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,716,467 1,637,661 Percentage 51.17% 48.82%

County results Kelly:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80% McSally:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%

U.S. Senator before election Martha McSally Republican Elected U.S. Senator Mark Kelly Democratic

A special election happened on November 3, 2020 to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Arizona. It happened because the last senator, John McCain, died in 2018.^[1][2] Primary elections happened on August 4, 2020 to choose who would run for the election from each party.^[3] The Republican Party chose Martha McSally. She beat Daniel McCarthy to be the Republican candidate. Only one person, Mark Kelly, ran for the Democratic Party.^[4]

Kelly won the election and got 51.2% of the votes, so he became the junior senator from Arizona.^[5] This meant both Senators from Arizona were now from the Democratic Party. He officially became a senator on December 2, 2020 when he was sworn in.

1. ↑ "What happens next to John McCain's Senate seat". Politico. August 25, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
2. ↑ "Who could be appointed to replace John McCain in the Senate, and the process behind it, explained". Vox. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
3. ↑ "United States Senate special election in Arizona, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
4. ↑ Amber Phillips (September 16, 2020), "The Senate seats most likely to flip in November", Washingtonpost.com, archived from the original on September 16, 2020
5. ↑ Cite error: The named reference result was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).