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Arizona’s 8th District

U.S. House · AZ-8

Election day November 3, 2026 · forecast of October 15, 2026

Our forecast gives the Republicans a 68% chance of winning, with an average lead of 6.3 points.

Competitive. Chance of a final gap under 5 points: 48%.

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Republican 51.6%

    Abraham Hamadeh, incumbent

  • Democrat 48.4%

    Bernadette Greene-Placentia

Thin vertical mark: 2024 result.

Compared with the average

Republican Democrat
AZ-8 51.6%48.4%
National averageUnited States 44.2%+7.4 54.5%−6.1

Simple average of the 435 districts, not weighted by population.

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Local profile

Latino citizens aged 18 and over17.0% (± 0.5)

Share of all citizens aged 18 and over (ACS 2020–2024 estimate). Not a share of registered or actual voters.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, citizen voting-age population by race and ethnicity, ACS 2020–2024, 119th Congress districts

Current member

Abraham Hamadeh · Republican

Primary results

Held July 21, 2026 · Official source

Democratic primary Bernadette Greene-Placentia 65.7% 31,312 votes
Republican primary Abraham Hamadeh 100.0% 69,182 votes

Who's running

The candidates

Candidates for the upcoming election.

  • Republican Incumbent

    Abraham Hamadeh

    source
  • Democrat Challenger

    Bernadette Greene-Placentia

    source

Previous election (2024)

The Republicans won by 13.0 points.

Our current projection: the Republicans ahead by 6.3 points.

Nearby districts

Party ahead and how sure the projection is.

  • AZ-3 Democrat, safe seat
  • AZ-1 Democrat, toss-up
  • AZ-4 Democrat, safe seat
  • AZ-5 Republican, competitive
  • AZ-2 Republican, toss-up
  • AZ-7 Democrat, safe seat

Watch list

The tightest races

The smallest projected gaps between the top two.

  1. AZ-2Republican52%5.7-point gap
  2. KY-6Republican53%5.8-point gap
  3. VA-1Republican58%5.8-point gap
Forecast updated