United States Senate election in Arizona, 2016 (Shattered)

The 2016 United States Senate election in Arizona was held on November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the to represent the, concurrently with the , as well as other elections to the  in other states and elections to the  and various state and local elections.

The Arizona Democratic Primary, 2016 was held on March 22, 2016, electing Democratic candidate for Senate,. The Arizona Republican primary election took place on August 30, 2016.

After hinting in September 2013 that he could retire, he subsequently said that the chances he would run again were "pretty good", but his campaign had emphasized that he had not made a decision yet. On April 7, 2015, McCain announced that he would run for re-election. McCain faced strong primary opposition from the and was defeated in an upset primary to former State Senator. Ward, who was backed by Republican nominee, suffered from a lack of support from Arizona's two Republican Senators and did not receive the same amount of funds from her party compared to that of Congresswoman Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick defeated Ward by a safe margin and became the first Democrat to represent Arizona as a Senator since 1995.