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Article: Sylvia Allen retains Arizona's District 5 Senate seat
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- Arizona Capitol Times
- Article date:
- November 7, 2008
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The rancher Bill Jeffers was off to a good, if not late, start in
his campaign to put the District 5 Senate seat in the Democratic
column.
He needed only 386 write-in votes to qualify as a candidate. He
blew past that -- garnering 2,371 write-ins.
The Democrats also have a registration advantage in the northern
Arizona district. But the momentum fell short.
When the dust settled, Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen fended off a
challenge from Jeffers over the seat long held by iconic lawmaker
Jake Flake, who died earlier this year.
Jeffers' defeat, as well as the defeat of other Democratic
candidates elsewhere in the state, doomed the party's hope of taking
a majority in one or both of the ...