Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona special election for father’s House seat

Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election in Battleground Arizona, and the congress leaving the seat empty from the death of his father and further eroded the majority of the Republicans’s razor -in house.

Associated Press reported that Grijalva, a former Pima district supervisor, defeated the business owner and contractor Daniel Butierez in the 7th Congress Zone of South Arizona on Tuesday.

Grijalva will serve the remaining 15 months of the Raul Grijalva era, who died in March after complications caused by cancer therapy.

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The victory of the young Grijalva was nothing but a surprise in the left -handed area. The Democrats enjoy the advantage of about two voter registration, according to Republicans in the Hispanic majority region, which extends from Yuma to Tucson and contains almost the entire length of the state with Mexico.

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Republicans are currently checking their 219-214 house and two empty seats remain.

In addition to the 7th congress zone of Arizona, there is a gap in the Texas 18th Congress Zone, a intense democratic judge region in Houston after the death of the democratic representative Sylvester Turner. The special election to fill the seat will be held on November 4, which is the 2025 election day.

Tennessee’s Republican President Mark Green resigned to find a job in the private sector in July, a right -leaning seat, the 7th congress zone is now empty. The special election that will fill the seat will be held on December 2.

The deceased democratic representative of Arizona’s 7th Congress Zone died in complications due to cancer treatment in March. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg) through Getty Images)

Thanks to Vermont, Sen Bernie Sanders and New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Vermont, partially family name and support from national progressive rock stars, received more than 60% of the primary votes this summer.

Deja Foxx, a progressive activist and social media impressive, has reached a distant second.

Grijalva, the first Latina of Arizona in Congress, targeted President Donald Trump Like the campaign,

While Grijalva, Trump, Congress Republicans and Sweeping Local Policy, I am committed to fighting Trump’s brutal agenda like a great ugly bill. “

Democratic Congress candidate Adelita Grijalva interviews on July 15, 2025 in Tuscon, Arizona. (Photo Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Grijalva said that if he won, he would immediately signed a discharge petition by the democratic representative Ro Khanna of California and the Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Currently hesitant to vote, the petition invites the GOP -controlled house to call the Ministry of Justice to release the files in Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex criminal.

While campaigning, BuTierez introduced himself as a candidate for change in a region that was controlled by the Democrats since the seat was created twenty years ago.

“This is actually your chances of getting a representative to represent everyone. If you vote, we will win, if not only the representation of the radicals,” he wrote.

On June 9, 2025, the candidate Daniel Butiel answers a question during the republican primary debate in the Arizona Public Media Studio in Arizona, Arizona. (Through AP Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star)

Bütierez, who lost to the old Grijalva as a 2024 GOP congress candidate, carried the southwest war area state at the top of the Trump ballot, this summer easily won the Republican primary primary in private elections.

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Trump carried Arizona after he lost in 2020 last year, while 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate and then President Kamala Harris won the region of 23 points.

Ken Martin, President of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement after the race was called, “Representative-element Grijalva won a challenging race.