Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will remain firmly under GOP control. What that means

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, which has long been a Republican stronghold in battleground Arizona, will remain in Republican hands once all votes from the 2024 general election are counted.

Before November, Republicans held a 4-1 supermajority on the board. But with two supervisors retiring, and a third incumbent defeated in the primaries, Democrats saw this as their best chance to win seats on the board. Instead, three reliably Republican seats remained on the GOP's column.

But as election watchdog reporter Sasha Hupka tells The Briefing, Democrats still have a slim chance at flipping one of the seats. The District 3 race between Republican Kate Brophy McGee and Democrat Daniel Valenzuela appeared to be headed to an automatic recount, given the handful of votes that separates the two.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: GOP will keep control of Maricopa County Board of Supervisors