Cory McGarr
Cory McGarr (Republican Party) was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 17. He assumed office on January 9, 2023. He left office on January 13, 2025.
McGarr (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent District 17. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
McGarr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Cory McGarr was born in Vineland, New Jersey. His career experience includes working as a pest control technician.[1]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.
2023-2024
McGarr was assigned to the following committees:
- House Judiciary Committee
- Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee
- Regulatory Affairs Committee, Vice Chair
Elections
2024
See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Kevin Volk and incumbent Rachel Keshel defeated incumbent Cory McGarr in the general election for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kevin Volk (D) | 34.5 | 73,985 |
| ✔ |  | Rachel Keshel (R) | 33.4 | 71,620 |
 | Cory McGarr (R)  | 32.1 | 68,904 | |
| Total votes: 214,509 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Kevin Volk advanced from the Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Volk | 100.0 | 26,330 |
| Total votes: 26,330 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Incumbent Cory McGarr and incumbent Rachel Keshel defeated Anna Orth in the Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cory McGarr | 41.2 | 24,583 |
| ✔ | | Rachel Keshel | 31.9 | 19,005 |
 | Anna Orth | 26.9 | 16,073 | |
| Total votes: 59,661 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for McGarr in this election.
Pledges
McGarr signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Rachel Keshel and Cory McGarr defeated Dana Allmond and Brian Radford in the general election for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rachel Keshel (R) | 26.2 | 60,541 |
| ✔ | | Cory McGarr (R) | 25.7 | 59,385 |
 | Dana Allmond (D) | 24.8 | 57,503 | |
 | Brian Radford (D) | 23.3 | 54,013 | |
| Total votes: 231,442 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Dana Allmond and Brian Radford advanced from the Democratic primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dana Allmond | 55.3 | 27,183 |
| ✔ | | Brian Radford | 44.7 | 21,958 |
| Total votes: 49,141 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 (2 seats)
Rachel Keshel and Cory McGarr defeated Anna Orth, Kirk Fiehler, and Sherrylyn Young in the Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 17 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rachel Keshel | 25.4 | 15,785 |
| ✔ | | Cory McGarr | 25.1 | 15,542 |
| Anna Orth | 18.6 | 11,530 | |
| Kirk Fiehler | 18.2 | 11,271 | ||
 | Sherrylyn Young | 12.7 | 7,905 | |
| Total votes: 62,033 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cory McGarr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McGarr's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
- We need a safe and secure border. If the federal government continues to refuse to do it's job then the states must step up. This is why we passed HB2060. This will give Arizona the ability to stop the invasion on our southern border by arresting and deporting those who cross into our country illegally. This will be on the November ballot and will give our state the ability defend itself.
- We need to protect and grow educational freedom through Arizona's ESA program. Parents should have the right to choose how and where their child is educated. Forcing children into failing schools simply because of their zip code is cruel and archaic. ESAs allow parents the ability to pursue education and not indoctrination. I will fight to defend school choice.
- Inflation is still running rampant. This is largely caused by reckless money printing on the federal level but it is made worse by state government adding taxes and needless regulation on the economy. I have fought for a tax cuts on income, groceries, and renting a home. At every turn I voted against adding new regulation and activity voted to cut needless regulation.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
2022
Cory McGarr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McGarr's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
- We need to ensure the integrity of our elections.
- We need to ensure medical freedom and stop medical discrimination.
- We need to stop radical indoctrination of our children in our schools.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Arizona scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org.
2024
In 2024, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 8 to June 15.
- Legislators are scored on their stances on economic issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to family issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic issues.
- Legislators are scored on their stances on animal issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.
- Legislators are scored on their stances on secular policy.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to environmental policy.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic policy.
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 9 to July 31.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
|
Candidate Arizona House of Representatives District 17 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 1, 2024
