Legislative Elections
The District DeskLegislative District 28
Debate availableLD28 · 2-Year Term
Population
232,401
Registered Voters
163,577
District Lean
R+26.8
Voter Registration Breakdown
General Election Debate
Legislative District 28 General Election Debate
State Senate
Frank Carroll
Republican · Senate
Frank Carroll served two terms in the House representing District 22 from 2019 to 2023 before moving to the Senate, where he won reelection in 2024 against a write-in opponent. He has operated commercial motor coaches. Gov. Katie Hobbs signed his 2026 bill expanding Arizona's ban on foreign adversaries holding land and critical infrastructure, and vetoed two others, on fast-tracking small modular nuclear reactors and on commercial licenses for immigrants in the country illegally. He skipped the September 18 debate.
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Michael Braun
Democrat · Senate
Michael Braun spent his career in the automotive industry, where he was an elected union steward and chaired a steward council in Illinois, and later moved into HVAC repair and management after his plant closed. He became a precinct committeeman after moving to Sun City about 13 years ago and advanced unopposed from the July 21 Democratic primary. He did not appear at the September 18 Clean Elections debate, which his Democratic House counterparts used to attack the absent Republicans.
State House
David Livingston
Republican · House
David Livingston chairs House Appropriations, the chamber's chief budget negotiating post. He served in the House from 2013 to 2019, spent two terms in the Senate, and returned to the House in 2023. Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed 48 of his bills since 2023 but vetoed 28 budget bills he sponsored in a single day on June 25, 2025 — a state record he advertised. His move to halve the Parents as Paid Caregivers program drew a recall campaign; Republicans later appropriated $122 million for it.
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Beverly Pingerelli
Republican · House
Beverly Pingerelli, a science program coordinator at Grand Canyon University, has served in the House since 2021 after eight years on the Peoria Unified School District board. She sponsors a handful of bills a year, mostly on education: Gov. Katie Hobbs signed her 2025 law requiring schools to limit cellphone use, and Gov. Doug Ducey signed her 2022 law opening school library checkout records to parents. She topped the July 21 Republican primary, ahead of her seatmate Livingston.
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Barbara Fike
Democrat · House
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Barbara Fike is a retired public school teacher who still teaches part time at Glendale Community College. This is her second run for the seat: she lost in 2024, then led the July 21 Democratic primary. She worked on the petition drive for the voucher-accountability measure that fell short of the ballot, and she said she would vote against Proposition 320. She appeared at the September 18 debate; both Republican incumbents did not.
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Marc Graham
Democrat · House
Marc Graham is a retired Air Force master sergeant. He advanced from the July 21 Democratic primary behind his running mate Barbara Fike. At the September 18 debate, which both Republican incumbents skipped, he called for a "kill switch" on artificial intelligence, invoked Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, and said he would vote against every measure the Legislature referred to this year's ballot. He says he is targeting Livingston's seat because Livingston is politically weak.
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