Arizona's 9th congressional district
The 8th Congressional District Arizona is a constituency for election to the House of Representatives of the United States, which has been recreated because Arizona due to the number of inhabitants according to the results of the census of 2010, won the seat added. The first election in which the seat was awarded, was to be elected House of Representatives of the United States in 2012, and the first members of the constituency, Kyrsten Sinema, took her seat on the convening of the 113th Congress of the United States in January 2013.
The constituency is completely innterhalb of Maricopa County, and is both demographically emerged from the old 5th Congressional District Arizona geographically; 60 percent of the area of the 9th Congressional District were previously part of the old 5th Congressional District. Within the boundaries of the electoral district lying southern border areas of Phoenix, including Ahwatukee and Tempe and parts of Scottsdale, Mesa and Chandler.
At the time of the 2012 election, there were 344 770 registered voters, of which 118 077 ( 34.2 %) registered Republicans, 107 123 ( 31.1 %) registered Democrats, 3232 (0.9%) registered voters of the Libertarian Party, and 761 ( 0.2 %) registered voters of the Green Party were. As an independent registered voters were 115 531 (33.5% ) voters. The district is not considered a stronghold of a party; Cook Partisan Voting Index is to be R 1.
Election 2012
List of Representatives of the Congress constituency
Arizona began based on the results of the Census 2010 with the posting of a ninth Congressman House of Representatives of the United States; this had an effect on the first midterm elections of 2012 and thus the composition of the 113th Congress.