United States Presidential Elections In Arizona
Since the 1950s, Arizona has been considered a stronghold state for the Republican Party, with the party carrying the state in all subsequent elections except 1996 and 2020 (and even then, Democrats won with narrow pluralities). However, recent political realignment has led some to consider Arizona as a swing state, influenced by demographic changes and trends in Maricopa County and other suburban areas in the state.
Democrats have in less recent elections carried the state by large margins amidst favorable national environments. In the 1936 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt won Arizona in a landslide, defeating the Republican Party's candidate Alf Landon by 42.92%, which remains the largest margin of victory for any presidential candidate in the state's history.
The state’s electoral votes came under controversy in the 2020 presidential election, when Democratic nominee Joe Biden narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Donald Trump in the state, by a margin of just 0.3%. During the Electoral College vote count, 69 congressional Republicans unsuccessfully objected to the certification of electoral votes of Arizona amidst false claims of fraud.
As of 2022, no Republican has won the presidency without carrying Arizona since its statehood in 1912, although Democrats have won the presidency without carrying the state on six occasions, most recently Barack Obama in 2012.
Presidential elections
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American Independent Party – (AI)
Communist Party USA – (CPUSA)
Constitution Party – (CP)
Democratic Party – (D)
Green Party – (G)
Independent candidate – (I)
Libertarian Party – (LI)
Prohibition Party – (PRO)
Progressive Party (1912) – (PR)
Progressive Party (1948) – (PR)
Reform Party – (RE)
Republican Party – (R)
Socialist Labor Party of America – (SLP)
Union Party – (U)
Note – A double dagger (‡) indicates the national winner. |
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
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| Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
| Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 10,324 | 43.6% | Theodore Roosevelt (PR) | 6,949 | 29.3% | Eugene Debs (S) | 3,163 | 13.4% | 3 | |||||
| Woodrow Wilson (D)‡ | 33,170 | 57.2% | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 20,522 | 35.4% | Allan L. Benson (S) | 3,174 | 5.5% | 3 | |||||
| Warren G. Harding (R) ‡ | 37,016 | 55.4% | James M. Cox (D) | 29,546 | 44.2% | Eugene Debs (S) | 222 | 0.3% | 3 | |||||
| Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡ | 30,516 | 41.3% | John W. Davis (D) | 26,235 | 35.5% | Robert M. La Follette (PR) | 17,210 | 23.3% | 3 | |||||
| Herbert Hoover (R)‡ | 52,533 | 57.6% | Al Smith (D) | 38,537 | 42.2% | William Z. Foster (CPUSA) | 184 | 0.2% | 3 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 79,264 | 67.0% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 36,104 | 30.5% | Norman Thomas (S) | 2,618 | 2.2% | 3 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 86,722 | 69.8% | Alf Landon (R) | 33,433 | 26.9% | William Lemke (U) | 3,307 | 2.7% | 3 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 95,267 | 63.5% | Wendell Willkie (R) | 54,030 | 36.0% | Roger Babson (PRO) | 742 | 0.5% | 3 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)‡ | 80,926 | 58.8% | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 56,287 | 40.9% | Claude A. Watson (PRO) | 421 | 0.3% | 4 | |||||
| Harry S. Truman (D) ‡ | 95,251 | 53.8% | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 77,597 | 43.8% | Henry A. Wallace (PR) | 3,310 | 1.9% | 4 | |||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 152,042 | 58.3% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 108,528 | 41.7% | –
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 176,990 | 61.0% | Adlai Stevenson (D) | 112,880 | 38.9% | T. Coleman Andrews (C) | 303 | 0.1% | 4 | |||||
| Richard Nixon (R) | 221,241 | 55.5% | John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ | 176,781 | 44.4% | Eric Hass (SLP) | 469 | 0.1% | 4 | |||||
| Barry Goldwater (R) | 242,535 | 50.4% | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 237,753 | 49.5% | Eric Hass (SLP) | 482 | 0.1% | 5 | |||||
| Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 266,721 | 54.8% | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 170,514 | 35.0% | George Wallace (AI) | 46,573 | 9.6% | 5 | |||||
| Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 402,812 | 64.7% | George McGovern (D) | 198,540 | 31.9% | John G. Schmitz (AI) | 21,208 | 3.4% | 6 | |||||
| Gerald Ford (R) | 418,642 | 56.4% | Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 295,602 | 39.8% | Eugene McCarthy (I) | 19,229 | 2.6% | 6 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 529,688 | 60.6% | Jimmy Carter (D) | 246,843 | 28.2% | John B. Anderson (I) | 76,952 | 8.8% | 6 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 681,416 | 66.4% | Walter Mondale (D) | 333,854 | 32.5% | David Bergland (LI) | 10,585 | 1.0% | 7 | |||||
| George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 702,541 | 60.0% | Michael Dukakis (D) | 454,029 | 38.7% | Ron Paul (LI) | 13,351 | 1.1% | 7 | |||||
| George H. W. Bush (R) | 572,086 | 38.5% | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 543,050 | 36.5% | Ross Perot (I) | 353,741 | 23.8% | 8 | |||||
| Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 653,288 | 46.5% | Bob Dole (R) | 622,073 | 44.3% | Ross Perot (RE) | 112,072 | 8.0% | 8 | |||||
| George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 781,652 | 51.0% | Al Gore (D) | 685,341 | 44.7% | Ralph Nader (G) | 45,645 | 3.0% | 8 | |||||
| George W. Bush (R)‡ | 1,104,294 | 54.9% | John Kerry (D) | 893,524 | 44.4% | Michael Badnarik (LI) | 11,856 | 0.6% | 10 | |||||
| John McCain (R) | 1,230,111 | 53.6% | Barack Obama (D)‡ | 1,034,707 | 45.1% | Bob Barr (LI) | 12,555 | 0.5% | 10 | |||||
| Mitt Romney (R) | 1,233,654 | 53.7% | Barack Obama (D)‡ | 1,025,232 | 44.6% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 32,100 | 1.4% | 11 | |||||
| Donald Trump (R)‡ | 1,252,401 | 48.7% | Hillary Clinton (D) | 1,161,167 | 45.1% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 106,327 | 4.1% | 11 | |||||
| Joe Biden (D)‡ | 1,672,143 | 49.4% | Donald Trump (R) | 1,661,686 | 49.1% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 51,465 | 1.5% | 11 | |||||
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