Electoral history of John McCain

John McCain was the senior United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018 and was the 2008 Republican nominee for President of the United States; however, he lost the election to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. McCain was involved in many elections on local, statewide and nationwide stage since his first election to the United States House of Representatives in 1982.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	162,418	78.08
	Democratic	Harry W. Braun	45,609	21.92
Total votes			208,027	100%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	521,850	60.47
	Democratic	Richard Kimball	340,965	39.51
	Write-in		106	0.01
Total votes			862,921	100%

House races (1982–1984)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	208,879	40.08
	Republican	George W. Bush	118,234	22.68
	Democratic	Al Gore	107,950	20.71
	Democratic	Bill Bradley	69,352	13.31
	Republican	Alan Keyes	9,369	1.80
	Republican	Steve Forbes	3,387	0.65
	Republican	Lyndon LaRouche	1,406	0.27
	Republican	Gary Bauer	1,401	0.27
	Republican	Orrin Hatch	1,240	0.24
Total votes			521,218	100.00%

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	791,064	38.03
	Democratic	Al Gore	454,629	21.84
	Republican	George W. Bush	443,304	21.29
	Democratic	Bill Bradley	159,772	7.67
	Green	Ralph Nader	89,210	4.29
	Republican	Alan Keyes	57,695	2.77
	Reform	Donald Trump	14,597	0.70
	Libertarian	Harry Browne	11,973	0.58
	Reform	George D. Weber	9,173	0.44
	Republican	Steve Forbes	6,035	0.29
	American Independent	Howard Phillips	5,957	0.29
	Natural Law	John Hagelin	4,843	0.23
	Green	Joel Kovel	4,646	0.22
		Others	23,839	1.15
Total votes			2,076,737	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George W. Bush	12,034,676	62.00
	Republican	John McCain	6,061,332	31.23
	Republican	Alan Keyes	985,819	5.08
	Republican	Steve Forbes	171,860	0.89
	Republican	Unpledged delegates	61,246	0.32
	Republican	Gary Bauer	60,709	0.31
	Republican	Others	35,659	0.18
Total votes			19,411,301	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	George W. Bush	2,058	99.66
	Republican	Alan Keyes	6	0.29
	Republican	John McCain	1	0.05
Total votes			2,065	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John Barnes Jr.	40,207	62.43
	Republican	John McCain (write-in)	4,305	6.68
	Republican	Mike Huckabee (write-in)	3,227	5.01
	Republican	Rudy Giuliani (write-in)	3,164	4.91
	Republican	Mitt Romney (write-in)	2,396	3.72
	Republican	Ron Paul (write-in)	1,938	3.01
	Republican	Fred Thompson (write-in)	1,496	2.32
	Republican	Duncan Hunter (write-in)	901	1.40
	Republican	Joe Lieberman (write-in)	528	0.82
	Republican	John Edwards (write-in)	515	0.80
	Republican	Barack Obama (write-in)	474	0.74
	Republican	Alan Keyes (write-in)	385	0.60
	Republican	Hillary Clinton (write-in)	324	0.50
	Write-in		4,543	7.05
Total votes			64,403	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	9,838,910	46.49
	Republican	Mitt Romney	4,681,436	22.12
	Republican	Mike Huckabee	4,281,900	20.23
	Republican	Ron Paul	1,214,563	5.74
	Republican	Rudy Giuliani	597,499	2.82
	Republican	Fred Thompson	303,845	1.44
	Republican	Uncommitted	70,873	0.34
	Republican	Alan Keyes	59,636	0.28
	Republican	Duncan Hunter	39,883	0.19
	Republican	Others	26,548	0.13
	Write-in		48,004	0.23
Total votes			21,163,125	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	2,343	99.28
	Republican	Ron Paul	15	0.64
	Republican	Mitt Romney	2	0.09
Total votes			2,360	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Barack Obama/Joe Biden	69,456,897	52.91
	Republican	John McCain/Sarah Palin	59,934,814	45.66
	Independent	Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez	738,475	0.56
	Libertarian	Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root	523,686	0.40
	Constitution	Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle	199,314	0.15
	Green	Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente	161,603	0.12
		Others	248,380	0.19
Total votes			131,263,169	100.00

2016 United States Senate election in Arizona^[13]^[14]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John McCain	302,532	51.16
	Republican	Kelli Ward	235,988	39.91
	Republican	Alex Meluskey	31,159	5.27
	Republican	Clair Van Steenwyk	21,476	3.63
	Republican	Sean Webster (write-in)	175	0.03
Total votes			591,330	100%
General election
	Republican	John McCain	1,359,267	53.71
	Democratic	Ann Kirkpatrick	1,031,245	40.75
	Green	Gary W. Swing	138,634	5.48
	Independent	Pat Quinn (write-in)	694	0.03
	Independent	Sydney Dudikoff (write-in)	494	0.02
	Independent	Selena Lopez (write-in)	223	0.01
	Independent	Leonard A. Clark (write-in)	83	0.00
	Independent	Anthony Camboni (write-in)	45	0.00
	Independent	Sheila Bilyeu (write-in)	34	0.00
	Independent	Gene Scott II (write-in)	7	0.00
	Independent	Santos Enrique Chavez (write-in)	4	0.00
Total votes			2,530,730	100%