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2025 Arizona's 7th congressional district special election

A special election was held on September 23, 2025, to fill Arizona's 7th congressional district for the remainder of the 119th United States Congress. The result was certified by the Arizona Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, on October 14.

This followed the July 15, 2025, primary election which results were certified by Fontes 16 days later on July 31.

The seat became vacant following the death of incumbent Democrat Raúl Grijalva on March 13, 2025. It is considered a safely Democratic district.

The election was won by former Pima County supervisor Adelita Grijalva, Raúl Grijalva's daughter. The younger Grijalva won by 40%, a significant overperformance from Kamala Harris's 22% victory in the district in the 2024 presidential election.

Background

Incumbent Congressman Raúl Grijalva was diagnosed with lung cancer on April 2, 2024, and died in office on March 13, 2025, from complications from cancer treatments at age 77.

Writing for The Arizona Republic in May, Laura Gersony noted that the "leading candidates" were Daniel Hernández Jr., Adelita Grijalva, and Deja Foxx; further noting that Hernández held an initial lead in fundraising stemming from supporters of Israel and that Grijalva would likely benefit from some of the campaign infrastructure built by her father. 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.

Grijalva won the Democratic primary on July 15, and faced Republican painting contractor Daniel Butierez.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Declined

Endorsements

Polling

Debates

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Daniel Butierez, painting contractor and nominee for this district in 2024

Eliminated in primary

  • Jorge Rivas, restaurant owner
  • Jimmy Rodriguez, businessman

Endorsements

Debates

Results

Third parties and independents

Green primary

Candidates

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

Results

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Declared
  • Andy Fernandez (write-in)

Results

No Labels primary

Candidates

Declared

Results

Write-in candidates

Declared

General election

Predictions

Results

By county

See also

Notes

Partisan clients

References

External links

Official campaign websites
Official campaign websites for candidates who did not advance from primaries