Sinema becomes state’s first female senator after a lengthy vote count in one of the most closely watched midterm races
Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat, won a remarkable victory in the race for an open Arizona Senate seat, defeating her Republican opponent after a campaign in which she cast herself as an independent in the tradition of the state’s late senator John McCain.
At 7.41ET on Monday, six days after the polls closed and as votes were still being counted, the Associated Press declared that Sinema had beaten the US congresswoman Martha McSally, a former air force fighter pilot, to become the state’s first female senator. The last time a Democrat was elected to an open senate seat in this conservative western state was 1976, the year Sinema was born.
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