2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election

2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election
September 23, 2025
Arizona's 7th congressional district
 
Party Democratic Republican
U.S. Representative before election

Raúl Grijalva
Democratic

Elected U.S. Representative

TBD

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A special election will be held on September 23, 2025, to fill Arizona's 7th congressional district for the remainder of the 119th United States Congress. Primary elections will be held on July 15. The seat became vacant following the death of incumbent Democrat Raúl Grijalva on March 13, 2025.[1] It is considered a safely Democratic district.[2]

Background

Incumbent Raúl Grijalva died in office on March 13, 2025, from complications from cancer treatment at age 77 after being diagnosed on April 2, 2024.[1]

Writing for The Arizona Republic in May, Laura Gersony noted that the "leading candidates" are Daniel Hernández Jr., Adelita Grijalva, and Deja Foxx; further noting that Hernández holds an initial lead in fundraising stemming from supporters of Israel and that Grijalva will likely benefit from some of the campaign infrastructure built by her father.[3] Grijalva received the endorsement of both of Arizona's U.S. Senators, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, and a number of Democratic political organizations, including EMILY's List and Giffords.[4][5][6]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Endorsements

Deja Foxx
U.S. representatives
Party officials
Organizations
Adelita Grijalva
U.S. senators
U.S. representatives
State legislators
Local officials
Labor unions
Organizations
Tribal nations
Daniel Hernández Jr.
Executive branch officials
U.S. representatives
State legislators
Labor unions
Organizations
Declined to endorse
Organizations

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Deja
Foxx 		Adelita
Grijalva 		Daniel
Hernández 		Other Undecided
Change Research (D)[A] June 26–29, 2025 540 (LV) ± 4.5% 35% 43% 9% 3%[b] 11%
Change Research (D)[A] May 13–16, 2025 530 (LV) ± 4.4% 10% 41% 16% 2%[c] 32%
Public Policy Polling (D)[B] April 7–8, 2025 527 (LV) ± 4.3% 5% 49% 11% – 35%

Debates

2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election Democratic primary debate
No. Date Host Moderator Link Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Foxx Grijalva Harris Hernández Malvido
1 May 27, 2025 KAET[46] Ted Simons [47] P P P P P
2 June 10, 2025 Arizona Public Media[48] Steve Goldstein, Nohelani Graf [49] P P P P P

Results

Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Deja Foxx
Democratic Adelita Grijalva
Democratic Patrick Harris
Democratic Daniel Hernández Jr.
Democratic Jose Malvido Jr.
Total votes 100.00%

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Daniel Butierez, painting contractor and nominee for this district in 2024[50]
  • Jorge Rivas, restaurant owner[51]
  • Jimmy Rodriguez, businessman[51]

Endorsements

Jorge Rivas
Local officials

Debates

2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election Republican primary debate
No. Date Host Moderator Link Republican Republican Republican
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Butierez Rivas Rodriguez
1 May 29, 2025 KAET[52] Ted Simons [53] P P A
2 June 9, 2025 Arizona Public Media[48] Steve Goldstein, Nohelani Graf [54] P P P

Results

Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Daniel Butierez
Republican Jorge Rivas
Republican Jimmy Rodriguez
Total votes 100.00%

Green primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Eduardo Quintana, former chair of the Pima County Green Party and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2024 (write-in)[9]
  • Gary Swing, organic produce clerk and perennial candidate (write-in)[55]

Results

Green primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Green Eduardo Quintana (write-in)
Green Gary Swing (write-in)
Total votes 100.00%

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Andy Fernandez (write-in)[9]

Results

Libertarian primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Libertarian Andy Fernandez (write-in)
Total votes 100.00%

No Labels primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

No Labels primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
No Labels Richard Grayson (write-in)
Total votes 100.00%

Write-in candidates

Declared

Notes

  1. ^ Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. ^ Malvido with 3%; Harris with 0%
  3. ^ Harris and Malvido with 1%
Partisan clients
  1. ^ a b Poll sponsored by Foxx's campaign
  2. ^ Poll sponsored by Grijalva's campaign

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