Officials from Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa, announced the results of 98,618 votes on Sunday night, breaking 54.6 percent in favor of Republican Kari Lake, bringing her closer to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
ABC 15 Data analyst Garret Archer reported that the party split was 54.6 percent in favor of Lake and 45.4 percent in favor of Democrat Katie Hobbs, giving Lake a net gain of 8,911 votes. Maricopa district election officials recorded in a press release that “nearly all” the party’s ballot papers were “removed on election day,” which was widely expected to be broken for Republican candidates.
Maricopa County received 98,618 votes
Estimate 94,285 remaining (94% completed)Breakdown of the party
Governor@Karilake 54.6@katiehobbs 45.4Senate@bgmasters 51.7@Captmarkkelly 46.5
AZAG@Abrahamhamadeh 55.4@krismayes 44.6
AZSOS@Realmarkfinchem 52.3@Adrian_Fontes 47.8
– AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) November 14, 2022
Lake overtook Hobbs by 26,011 votes statewide with 93% of the total reported from 9:00 p.m. EST as per New York Times:
- Hobbes: 1,211,595 – 50.5 percent
- Lake: 1 185 584 – 49.5 percent
“[e]extremely hard to see how [she] is winning now. “
It’s incredibly hard to see Kari Lake (R) win right now. #AZGOV
– Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 14, 2022
Republican attorney general’s candidate Abe Hamadeh won 55.4 percent of Maricop’s votes and pulled Democrat Kris Mayes just 11,328 votes at 21:00 Times:
- Maya: 1,181,398 – 50.24 percent
- Hamadeh: 1,170,070 – 49.76 percent
The results of the US Senate and Secretary of State races to which the Associated Press called on the Democrats on Friday night were as follows from 8:50 p.m. after the vote was dropped:
US Senate Results:
- Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ): 1,243,400 – 51.6 percent
- Republican Blake champions: 1,115,654 – 46.3 percent
- Libertarian Marc Victor: 50,359 – 2.1 percent
Secretary of State Results:
- Democrat Adrian Fontes: 1,243,076 – 52.6 percent
- Republican Mark Finchem: 1,119,888 – 47.4 percent
Archer also noted that the 20,457 ballots that came out of Arizona’s First Congressional District broke in favor of MP David Schweikert (R-AZ), net him an additional 3,435 votes. This race saw 94 percent of the vote, and the power holder had 894 votes at 9:00 p.m., according to Times.
“A great blow to the Dems w # AZ01 and their overall House chances ”, Wasserman tweeted about the results.
Huge blow to Dems w # AZ01 and the general chances of their House. https://t.co/DxyOyaoCex
– Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 14, 2022
Following the publication of Sunday night’s results, the county estimates its chart is 94 percent complete with another 85,000-95,000 ballot outstanding. stay.
This includes around 5,000 “election day ballots to be filed”, around 73,015 “early ballot papers left to be processed and compiled”, around 8373 “early ballots left to recover” and around 430 “temporary retained ballots” to explore”.
