Biggs leads La Paz County GOP governor primary with 71% of vote
Biggs took 71% of La Paz County’s early GOP governor vote, leaving Schweikert at 9% and showing how strongly the county leaned into the race’s hard-right lane.
Early returns in La Paz County gave Rep. Andy Biggs 71% of the Republican governor primary vote, while Rep. David Schweikert stood at 9%. The county’s numbers put a sharp rural Arizona spotlight on a race that will decide who takes on Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in November.
The La Paz County result looks like more than a routine party-line preference. Biggs entered the contest with Donald Trump’s endorsement and a profile tied to the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, while Associated Press coverage framed his fight with Schweikert as a clash between different visions of the Republican Party in Arizona. In La Paz County, the early returns suggested voters were choosing the more conservative lane by a wide margin.
That margin matters because La Paz County is not a place where candidates can afford to treat rural Republican voters as automatic. County election records show 5,457 registered Republicans in the 2024 primary and a 36.49% Republican turnout rate, a reminder that the GOP electorate here is relatively small but can still send a clear signal about intensity. Biggs’ 71% share suggests the county was not merely following the statewide Republican base, but leaning harder toward the party’s ideological right.
For Biggs, the La Paz County vote fits a campaign built around mobilizing committed conservatives rather than persuading moderates. For Schweikert, the 9% showing underscored how little traction a competing Republican message had in a county that has to be counted among the state’s rural power centers. The result also gives party insiders a clue about turnout strategy heading toward November: in places like La Paz County, enthusiasm among core Republicans may matter as much as the broader countywide vote.
Parker, Quartzsite and the county’s outlying precincts are the kinds of local votes that can keep a rural county relevant in a statewide primary. If Biggs continues to dominate those returns, the county will look less like a battleground and more like a barometer of where the Arizona GOP’s most engaged voters are moving.
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