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LD10 · 2-Year Term
Population
239,291
Registered Voters
144,223
District Lean
R+22.3
Voter Registration Breakdown
Debate recap
Republicans skip debate while Democrats, independent and third-party candidates make their case to voters “I will fight for all of these issues when we get into the House,” Democratic candidate Helen Hunter said. “It’s pitiful that we have to do this.”
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Republican · Senate
David Farnsworth is a real estate investor who served in the state Senate from 2013 to 2021, and returned to the chamber in 2022 by beating then-House Speaker Rusty Bowers in the Republican primary weeks after Bowers testified before the congressional January 6 committee. During that campaign Farnsworth called the 2020 election "a real conspiracy headed up by the Devil himself." He won reelection in 2024 and was unopposed in this year's primary. He declined the Clean Elections debate.
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Democrat · Senate
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Blair Moses worked in healthcare for 30 years before going to law school, earning her law degree from Arizona State University in 2010, and is now a retired lawyer. She was unopposed in the Democratic primary in her first run for the Legislature. At the Clean Elections debate she backed rent control capping annual increases and limits on investor home purchases. She says she wants to use her healthcare and legal experience to write bills.
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Independent · Senate
Nick Fierro is a physical therapist making his third run for the Legislature as an independent, a rare path in Arizona. He ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate in 2020 and 2022. At the Clean Elections debate he proposed a tax credit to cap rents in 55-and-older communities and said neither party's proposals satisfied him.
State House
Republican · House
Justin Olson served in the state House from 2011 to 2017, then was appointed to the Arizona Corporation Commission by Gov. Doug Ducey in October 2017 and won a full term in 2018, serving until 2023. He finished fifth in the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, then returned to the House in 2024. A former Arizona Tax Research Association analyst, he led this year's primary. He declined the Clean Elections debate.
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Republican · House
James Rogers is a Mesa lawyer who earned a law degree from Harvard in 2009 and a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge the year before. He works for Stephen Miller’s America First Legal Foundation. He declined the Clean Elections debate. On his campaign site he says he has the "skills, experience, and backbone to help make Arizona permanently red."
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Democrat · House
Brian Calaway is a former science educator who now runs after-school enrichment programs. At the Clean Elections debate he said he would model state government on Franklin Roosevelt's Economic Bill of Rights and proposed taxing grocery stores to pressure them into lowering prices, arguing the current system leaves people as "indentured servants."
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Democrat · House
Helen Hunter is an assistant pastor, AFSCME member and East Valley NAACP leader who has served on Mesa's Use of Force Committee. She is making her fourth consecutive run for the state House. She lost in 2020, 2022 and 2024. At the Clean Elections debate she called for an income-based sales tax and faulted Republican officials for not fighting federal limits on mail-in ballots.
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No Labels · House
David Scott leads a community bank's Arizona operations and sits on the boards of Junior Achievement of Arizona, the Million Dollar Teacher Project, the Phoenix East Valley Partnership and the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce. He advanced from the No Labels Party primary with 515 votes. He attended the Clean Elections debate after all three Republicans declined, commended his Democratic opponents for showing up, and warned that restricting local sales taxes could force cities to raise property taxes or cut services.