Democrat Mitzi Epstein has snagged a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives, flipping a post previously held by Republicans.

Voters in southern Arizona’s heavily Democratic Legislative District 2 have thrown out Republican Rep. Chris Ackerley, who won a seat in the state House just two years ago.

When Javan “J.D.” Mesnard first showed up at the Capitol in 2002, he was a messy-haired 21-year-old music composition major who had quit his job as a pizza delivery driver.

That's three for Mesnard

Democratic Rep. Randy Friese coasted to an easy re-election, though his appointed seatmate, Democratic Rep. Matt Kopec, succumbed to a third Democratic challenger in the Democratic primary for the two House seats in Tucson’s Legislative District 9.

After tonight’s vote, 17 candidates, most of them incumbents, are all but guaranteed to get re-elected or become lawmakers even before the general election campaign has begun.

Despite being massively outspent in his three-way primary, Republican Rep. Noel Campbell pulled away from his Republican primary challengers to snag the first of two House seats in Legislative District 1.

Incumbent Republican Rep. Eddie Farnsworth and newcomer Travis Grantham took the top two places in the Legislative District 12 House of Representatives GOP primary.

Democratic Rep. Richard Andrade and Democrat Cesar Chavez won the four-way race for two House seats in the West Valley’s Legislative District 29 House Democratic primary.

Seven months after the Arizona Capitol Times requested documents related to a spike in state-funded travel authorized by House Speaker David Gowan, the Arizona House of Representatives has yet to release any documents that would shed light on which legislators and employees were taking trips and for what purpose.