Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin narrowly edged his two competitors and snatched the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in November. But now his real challenge begins.

When Rep. Doris Goodale declined to run for re-election to focus on her recovery from a 2013 stroke, four Republicans lined up to replace her. But none of them are in the mold of Goodale, a moderate Republican who supported Medicaid expansion and the Common Core education standards.

A new face will be replacing longtime legislator Andy Tobin in the state House in January, as three-time legislative candidate Noel Campbell took the lead over former lawmaker Linda Gray for the second seat in Legislative District 1.

Elections for two new at-large seats to the Maricopa County Community College District governing board will take place, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today.

The death of Republican state Sen. Chester Crandell has boosted the chances for an independent to be elected to the Legislature for the first time in recent memory. Crandell was unopposed in the GOP primary and was set to take on independent Tom O'Halleran in the November general election.

The number of independents voting in the partisan primary election on Aug. 26 is expected to surge this year. And with nearly all the primary election action concentrated on the Republican side, independents are overwhelmingly choosing to vote in the GOP primary.

Democrat Felecia Rotellini said Monday she's ready to take on either Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne or his Republican primary opponent in the November general election with a full war chest.

Kansas and Arizona are seeking to force the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to change its federal voter registration form for those states to include special instructions requiring citizenship documentation.

A trend that began after Arizona started letting independents vote in partisan primaries reached fruition this month when they officially became the largest voting bloc in the state, outnumbering registered Republicans by a few thousand.

Attorneys disputed the constitutionality of statutes that define what constitutes election advocacy in the case of a committee that spent $1.5 million attacking Tom Horne during the 2010 attorney general’s race.