Adelita Grijalva wins the Arizona special election for the headquarters of the father’s house

Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won a special election in the battlefield of Arizona, guaranteeing the seat of the congress left by the death of her father and further eroding the majority of the Chamber of Republicans.

The Associated Press reports that Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor, beat the owner of the company and entrepreneur Daniel Boutière, the republican candidate, in the election of Tuesday in the 7th district of the Congress of the South of Arizona.

Grijalva will serve the remaining 15 months of the term Raul Grijalva, who died in March following complications in cancer treatment.

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Arizona Congressional District 7 The candidates for the special elections Le Républicain Daniel Boutière, on the left, and the Democrat Adelita Grijalva participate during a televised debate, on Tuesday August 26, 2025, in Tucson, Ariz. (Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star via AP)

The young Grijalva’s victory was anything but a surprise in the left district. Democrats benefit from an advantage of registration of voters from nearly two to one on the Republicans in the district of Hispanic majority, which extends from Yuma to Tucson and includes almost the duration of the state border with Mexico.

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The Republicans are currently controlling house 219-214, with two remaining vacant seats.

In addition to the 7th district of the Arizona Congress, there is also a vacancy in the 18th District of the Texas Congress, a district strongly dominated by the Democrats in Houston, following the death of March of the Democratic representative Sylvester Turner. The special election to fill the headquarters will take place on November 4, which is the 2025 election day.

The 7th district of the Tennessee Congress, a right -wing seat where the Republican representative Mark Green resigned in July to take a job in the private sector, is also currently vacant. The special election to fill the headquarters will take place on December 2.

The deceased Democratic representative Raúl Grijalva of the 7th district of the Arizona Congress, died in March of complications due to the treatment of cancer. (Joshua Roberts / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Grijalva, thanks in part to his family name and his support as a progressive national rock stars, senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York, caught more than 60% of the main vote this summer during a confrontation with five canes.

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Grijalva, who with his victory became the first Latina of Arizona at the Congress, targeted President Donald Trump While she was campaigning,

“In Congress, I undertake to fight against the cruel agenda of Trump, like the Big Ugly Bill which removed the coverage of nearly 383,000 Arizonans and 142,000 children,” said Grijalva in a social media position, while it was targeting Trump, the Republicans of the Congress, and their measurement of the internal scan policy they have appointed the major bill.

The democratic candidate for Congress Adelita Grijalva was interviewed in Tuscon, Arizona, on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Rebecca Noble / Getty Images)

Grijalva had also said that if she won, she would immediately sign a discharge petition for the Democratic representative Ro Khanna from California and the Republican representative Thomas Massie from Kentucky. The petition, which is currently only a shy vote to pass, calls on the Chamber controlled by the GOP to vote to urge the Ministry of Justice to publish the files of the sex offender sentenced to the end Jeffrey Epstein.

Goter, as he campaigned, had promoted to the candidate for change in a district controlled by the Democrats since the creation of the siege more than two decades.

“It is your chance to obtain a representative who will represent everyone. If you vote, we win, if you will not only have the radicals will have a representation,” he wrote on X.

Candidate Daniel Boutière answers a question during the republican primary debate in the Arizona public media studio in Tucson, Arizona, June 9, 2025. (Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star via AP)

Voitrez, who as a candidate of the GOP 2024 congress lost against the elder Grijalva while Trump narrowly wore the state of the southwest battlefield at the top of the ballot, easily won the republican primary this summer in the special elections.

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While Trump transported Arizona last year after having lost it in 2020, the candidate for the Democratic Presidency 2024 and the president of the vice of the time, Kamala Harris, won the 23 -point district.

The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, in a statement after the race call, said that “the elected representative Grijalva has won a hard -disputed race. Now, the Arizonans will have a fighter in their corner which will resist Trump on behalf of families who wish to see real leadership in Washington.”