Attorney General of Arizona

	Arizona Attorney General
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	General information
Office Type:	Partisan
Office website:	Official Link
Compensation:	$90,000
2024 FY Budget:	$103,760,600
Term limits:	2 consecutive terms
	Structure
Length of term:	4 years
Authority:	Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 1 (Version 2)
Selection Method:	Elected
	Current Officeholder
	Attorney General of Arizona Kris Mayes; Democratic Party; Assumed office: 2023-01-02
	Elections
Next election:	November 3, 2026
Last election:	November 8, 2022
	Other Arizona Executive Offices
	Governor • Secretary of State • Attorney General • Treasurer • Superintendent of Public Instruction• Auditor• Agriculture Director • Insurance and Financial Institutions Director• Lands Commissioner• Labor Director• Corporation Commission• State Mine Inspector

The Attorney General of Arizona is an elected state executive officer established by the Arizona Constitution. The attorney general is the chief legal officer of the state of Arizona and head of the Arizona Department of Law. He or she represents the state in civil suits, provides legal advice to state agencies and officials, enforces consumer protection and civil rights laws and prosecutes cases involving some financial and drug-related crimes.^[1]

Arizona has a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.

Current officeholder

The current Attorney General of Arizona is Kris Mayes (D). Mayes assumed office in 2023.

Authority

The office of attorney general is established by the Arizona Constitution as part of the state's executive department.

Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 1 (Version 2)

The executive department shall consist of the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction...

Qualifications

The Arizona Constitution requires all of the officers in the state's executive department, including the attorney general, to be at least 25 years old, a U.S. citizen for 10 years and an Arizona resident for five years.

Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 2

No person shall be eligible to any of the offices mentioned in section 1 of this article except a person of the age of not less than twenty-five years, who shall have been for ten years next preceding his election a citizen of the United States, and for five years next preceding his election a citizen of Arizona.

Arizona law further requires the attorney general to have been a "practicing attorney before the supreme court of the state" for five years.^[2]

Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 41, Chapter 1, Article 5, Section 41-191

The attorney general shall have been for not less than five years immediately preceding the date of taking office a practicing attorney before the supreme court of the state.

Elections

Arizona state government organizational chart

Arizonans elect their attorney general in midterm election years (2014, 2018, 2022, etc.) for a term of four years. The winner assumes office on the first Monday of January after his or her election. If no candidates receives a majority (over 50 percent) of the votes, a runoff election is held between the two candidates that received the largest amount. If the two candidates in the runoff receive an equal number of votes, the state legislature chooses a winner.

Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 1 (Version 2)

A. The executive department shall consist of the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction, each of whom shall hold office for a term of four years beginning on the first Monday of January, 1971 next after the regular general election in 1970.

B. B. The person having a majority of the votes cast for the office voted for shall be elected. If no person receives a majority of the votes cast for the office, a second election shall be held as prescribed by law between the persons receiving the highest and second highest number of votes cast for the office. The person receiving the highest number of votes at the second election for the office is elected, but if the two persons have an equal number of votes for the office, the two houses of the legislature at its next regular session shall elect forthwith, by joint ballot, one of such persons for said office.

2022

See also: Arizona Attorney General election, 2022

General election

General election for Attorney General of Arizona

Kris Mayes defeated Abraham Hamadeh and Samantha Severson in the general election for Attorney General of Arizona on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kris Mayes (D)	49.9	1,254,809
	Abraham Hamadeh (R)	49.9	1,254,529
	Samantha Severson (L) (Write-in)	0.0	0
	Other/Write-in votes	0.1	3,052

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,512,390
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Michael Kielsky (L)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Attorney General of Arizona

Kris Mayes advanced from the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Arizona on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kris Mayes	100.0	556,351

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 556,351
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Diego Rodriguez (D)
Bob McWhirter (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Attorney General of Arizona

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Attorney General of Arizona on August 2, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Abraham Hamadeh	33.6	265,636
	Rodney Glassman	23.6	186,863
	Andrew W. Gould	16.7	132,253
	Dawn Grove	12.0	94,670
	Lacy Cooper	8.6	67,742
	Tiffany Shedd	5.6	44,453

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 791,617
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Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Arizona

Michael Kielsky advanced from the Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Arizona on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Michael Kielsky (Write-in)	100.0	571

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 571
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