Ted Downing is a former member of the

Arizona House of Representatives The Arizona State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. The upper house is the Senate. The House convenes in the legislative chambers at the Arizona State C ...

from January 2003 until January 2007. In 2000 he ran for the State House of Representatives for District 13. Along with

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, he was one of the two candidates to win the Democratic primary. However, in the general election, while Giffords won, Downing came in third, losing to Carol Somers. In November 2002, he ran again for the house, this time in District 28 following redistricting, and won. He won re-election to the House in 2004. In 2006, Downing decided not to seek re-election to the House, and chose to run for the State Senate. However, he lost in the Democrat primary to

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, who ran unopposed in the general election. He ran again in the 2010 election for the Senate seat from District 28, this time as an independent, finishing a distant third in the election.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Downing, Ted Democratic Party members of the Arizona House of Representatives Year of birth missing (living people) Living people