Electoral history of John McCain

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United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018 and was the 2008 Republican nominee for President of the United States; however, he lost the election to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. McCain was involved in many elections on local, statewide and nationwide stage since his first election to the United States House of Representatives
in 1982.

House races (1982–1984)

1982 Arizona's 1st congressional district election[1][2]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 15,363 31.83
Republican Ray Russell 12,500 25.89
Republican James A. Mack 10,675 22.11
Republican Donna Carlson-West 9,736 20.17
Total votes 48,274 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 89,116 65.90
Democratic William E. Hegarty 41,261 30.51
Libertarian Richard K. Dodge 4,850 3.59
Total votes 135,227 100%
1984 Arizona's 1st congressional district election[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 162,418 78.08
Democratic Harry W. Braun 45,609 21.92
Total votes 208,027 100%

Senate races (1986–2016)

1986 United States Senate election in Arizona[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 521,850 60.47
Democratic Richard Kimball 340,965 39.51
Write-in 106 0.01
Total votes 862,921 100%
1992 United States Senate election in Arizona[5][6]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 201,500 100.00
Total votes 201,500 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 771,395 55.82
Democratic Claire Sargent 436,321 31.57
Independent
 Evan Mecham 145,361 10.52
Libertarian Kiana Delamare 22,613 1.64
New Alliance Ed Finkelstein 6,335 0.46
Independent
 Robert B. Winn (
write-in
) 		26 0.00
Total votes 1,382,051 100%
1998 United States Senate election in Arizona[7][8]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 206,490 99.73
Republican Mark Healy (
write-in
) 		568 0.27
Total votes 207,058 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 696,577 68.74
Democratic
Ed Ranger
 275,224 27.16
Libertarian John C. Zajac 23,004 2.27
Reform
 Bob Park 18,288 1.80
Independent
 Bill Reilley (
write-in
) 		187 0.02
Total votes 1,013,280 100%
2004 United States Senate election in Arizona[9][10]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 331,720 100.00
Total votes 331,720 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 1,505,372 76.74
Democratic Stuart Starky 404,507 20.62
Libertarian Ernest Hancock 51,798 2.64
Total votes 1,961,677 100%
2010 United States Senate election in Arizona[11][12]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 333,744 56.25
Republican J. D. Hayworth 190,229 32.06
Republican Jim Deakin 69,328 11.69
Total votes 593,301 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 1,005,615 58.86
Democratic Rodney Glassman 592,011 34.65
Libertarian David Nolan 80,097 4.69
Green
 Jerry Joslyn 24,603 1.44
Independent
 Ian Gilyeat (
write-in
) 		5,938 0.35
Independent
 Loyd Ellis (
write-in
) 		160 0.01
Independent
 Santos Enrique Chavez (
write-in
) 		39 0.00
Independent
 Sydney Dudikoff (
write-in
) 		14 0.00
Independent
 Raymond Caplette (
write-in
) 		7 0.00
Total votes 1,708,484 100%
2016 United States Senate election in Arizona[13][14]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 302,532 51.16
Republican Kelli Ward 235,988 39.91
Republican Alex Meluskey 31,159 5.27
Republican Clair Van Steenwyk 21,476 3.63
Republican Sean Webster (
write-in
) 		175 0.03
Total votes 591,330 100%
General election
Republican John McCain 1,359,267 53.71
Democratic Ann Kirkpatrick 1,031,245 40.75
Green
 Gary W. Swing 138,634 5.48
Independent
 Pat Quinn (
write-in
) 		694 0.03
Independent
 Sydney Dudikoff (
write-in
) 		494 0.02
Independent
 Selena Lopez (
write-in
) 		223 0.01
Independent
 Leonard A. Clark (
write-in
) 		83 0.00
Independent
 Anthony Camboni (
write-in
) 		45 0.00
Independent
 Sheila Bilyeu (
write-in
) 		34 0.00
Independent
 Gene Scott II (
write-in
) 		7 0.00
Independent
 Santos Enrique Chavez (
write-in
) 		4 0.00
Total votes 2,530,730 100%

2000 Presidential election

Main article: 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries
Washington primary for independent voters, 2000[15]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 208,879 40.08
Republican George W. Bush 118,234 22.68
Democratic Al Gore 107,950 20.71
Democratic Bill Bradley 69,352 13.31
Republican Alan Keyes 9,369 1.80
Republican Steve Forbes 3,387 0.65
Republican Lyndon LaRouche 1,406 0.27
Republican Gary Bauer 1,401 0.27
Republican Orrin Hatch 1,240 0.24
Total votes 521,218 100.00%
California primary for independent voters, 2000[16]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 791,064 38.03
Democratic Al Gore 454,629 21.84
Republican George W. Bush 443,304 21.29
Democratic Bill Bradley 159,772 7.67
Green Ralph Nader 89,210 4.29
Republican Alan Keyes 57,695 2.77
Reform Donald Trump 14,597 0.70
Libertarian Harry Browne 11,973 0.58
Reform George D. Weber 9,173 0.44
Republican Steve Forbes 6,035 0.29
American Independent Howard Phillips 5,957 0.29
Natural Law John Hagelin 4,843 0.23
Green Joel Kovel 4,646 0.22
Others 23,839 1.15
Total votes 2,076,737 100.00
Red states won by Bush, yellow by McCain
2000 Republican primaries[17]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican George W. Bush 12,034,676 62.00
Republican John McCain 6,061,332 31.23
Republican Alan Keyes 985,819 5.08
Republican Steve Forbes 171,860 0.89
Republican Unpledged delegates 61,246 0.32
Republican Gary Bauer 60,709 0.31
Republican Others 35,659 0.18
Total votes 19,411,301 100.00
2000 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)[18]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican George W. Bush 2,058 99.66
Republican Alan Keyes 6 0.29
Republican John McCain 1 0.05
Total votes 2,065 100.00

2008 presidential election

Main article: Results of the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries
New Hampshire Republican vice presidential primary, 2008[19]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John Barnes Jr. 40,207 62.43
Republican John McCain (write-in) 4,305 6.68
Republican Mike Huckabee (write-in) 3,227 5.01
Republican Rudy Giuliani (write-in) 3,164 4.91
Republican Mitt Romney (write-in) 2,396 3.72
Republican Ron Paul (write-in) 1,938 3.01
Republican Fred Thompson (write-in) 1,496 2.32
Republican Duncan Hunter (write-in) 901 1.40
Republican Joe Lieberman (write-in) 528 0.82
Republican John Edwards (write-in) 515 0.80
Republican Barack Obama (write-in) 474 0.74
Republican Alan Keyes (write-in) 385 0.60
Republican Hillary Clinton (write-in) 324 0.50
Write-in 4,543 7.05
Total votes 64,403 100.00
Results of 2008 presidential primaries
Republican presidential primaries, 2008[20]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 9,838,910 46.49
Republican Mitt Romney 4,681,436 22.12
Republican Mike Huckabee 4,281,900 20.23
Republican Ron Paul 1,214,563 5.74
Republican Rudy Giuliani 597,499 2.82
Republican Fred Thompson 303,845 1.44
Republican Uncommitted 70,873 0.34
Republican Alan Keyes 59,636 0.28
Republican Duncan Hunter 39,883 0.19
Republican Others 26,548 0.13
Write-in 48,004 0.23
Total votes 21,163,125 100.00
2008 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally)[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican John McCain 2,343 99.28
Republican Ron Paul 15 0.64
Republican Mitt Romney 2 0.09
Total votes 2,360 100.00
2008 United States presidential election[22]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Barack Obama/Joe Biden 69,456,897 52.91
Republican John McCain/Sarah Palin 59,934,814 45.66
Independent Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez 738,475 0.56
Libertarian Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root 523,686 0.40
Constitution Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle 199,314 0.15
Green
 Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 161,603 0.12
Others 248,380 0.19
Total votes 131,263,169 100.00

See also

References

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