We’re still counting, Arizona. More than 500,000 ballots have yet to be tallied statewide.
In Maricopa County, elections officials were working 14 to 18 hours a day to process results of Tuesday’s election. They will keep at it through Veterans Day, Saturday and Sunday to verify and count a record number of ballots dropped off at the county’s vote centers Tuesday.
The county will release an updated results count Friday evening.
Follow coverage of Arizona’s midterm election by Republic reporters here.
What to know: Arizona’s highest-profile races still up for grabs
8 a.m.: Crane ousts O’Halleran, joins House delegation
One major race was decided Thursday: Republican Eli Crane defeated three-term incumbent Rep. Tom O’Halleran in the 2nd Congressional District, which sprawls across much of northern and eastern Arizona.
Crane, a businessman and former Navy SEAL, says on his website that combating voting fraud and illegal immigration are major priorities. He is endorsed by former President Donald Trump and supports the Trump-style Make America Great Again, or MAGA, platform.
O’Halleran, the co-chair of the moderate Democrat Blue Dog Caucus, won his seat in the 2016 elections and was reelected in 2018 and 2020. He served in the Arizona Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the Arizona House of Representatives between 2001 and 2006 as a Republican. He left the GOP in 2014.
Democrats have held a majority of Arizona’s House seats, but the next congressional delegation is likely to consist of either six Republicans and three Democrats or five Republicans and four Democrats.
— Tara Kavaler
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Election 2022 in Arizona: Live updates across the state
