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Jake Hoffman (Arizona)
2023 - Present
2027
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Jake Hoffman (Republican Party) is a member of the Arizona State Senate, representing District 15. He assumed office on January 9, 2023. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Hoffman (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Arizona State Senate to represent District 15. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Jake Hoffman earned a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 2008, a graduate degree from Northwest Christian University, and a graduate degree from Bushnell University in 2014. Hoffman's career experience includes working as a business executive.[1]
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Hoffman was assigned to the following committees:
- Senate Appropriations Committee, Vice Chair
- Director Nominations, Chair
- Government Committee, Chair
- Transportation and Technology Committee (Decommissioned)
- Joint Committee on Capital Review (Decommissioned)
- Joint Legislative Budget Committee
2021-2022
Hoffman was assigned to the following committees:
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.
Elections
2024
See also: Arizona State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Arizona State Senate District 15
Incumbent Jake Hoffman defeated Alan Smith and Evan Olson in the general election for Arizona State Senate District 15 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jake Hoffman (R) | 63.7 | 87,580 |
 | Alan Smith (D)  | 31.9 | 43,769 | |
 | Evan Olson (Independent) | 4.4 | 6,061 | |
| Total votes: 137,410 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona State Senate District 15
Alan Smith advanced from the Democratic primary for Arizona State Senate District 15 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alan Smith | 100.0 | 11,008 |
| Total votes: 11,008 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona State Senate District 15
Incumbent Jake Hoffman advanced from the Republican primary for Arizona State Senate District 15 on July 30, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jake Hoffman | 100.0 | 30,095 |
| Total votes: 30,095 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Hoffman in this election.
2022
State Senate
See also: Arizona State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Arizona State Senate District 15
Jake Hoffman defeated Alan Smith in the general election for Arizona State Senate District 15 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jake Hoffman (R) | 64.8 | 60,850 |
| Alan Smith (D) | 35.2 | 33,120 | |
| Total votes: 93,970 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Arizona State Senate District 15
Alan Smith advanced from the Democratic primary for Arizona State Senate District 15 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alan Smith (Write-in) | 100.0 | 1,344 |
| Total votes: 1,344 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona State Senate District 15
Jake Hoffman advanced from the Republican primary for Arizona State Senate District 15 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jake Hoffman | 100.0 | 30,212 |
| Total votes: 30,212 | |||
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Campaign finance
State House
Jake Hoffman did not file to run for re-election.
2020
See also: Arizona House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Arizona House of Representatives District 12 (2 seats)
Incumbent Travis Grantham and Jake Hoffman defeated Kristin Clark in the general election for Arizona House of Representatives District 12 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Travis Grantham (R) | 48.3 | 93,972 |
| ✔ | | Jake Hoffman (R) | 47.8 | 92,941 |
 | Kristin Clark (D) (Write-in) | 3.9 | 7,577 | |
| Total votes: 194,490 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 12 (2 seats)
Incumbent Travis Grantham and Jake Hoffman advanced from the Republican primary for Arizona House of Representatives District 12 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Travis Grantham | 50.6 | 30,034 |
| ✔ | | Jake Hoffman | 49.4 | 29,272 |
| Total votes: 59,306 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mark Boesen (R)
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jake Hoffman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Jake Hoffman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hoffman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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At the Capitol I have been hard at work to secure our elections, authoring legislation to ban the private funding of elections, prohibit the mass mailing of ballots to voters who didn’t request it, and require proof of citizenship to register to vote. I’ve fought to protect children from sexually explicit materials being used in our schools and to ensure that not one penny of your tax dollars go toward the teaching of Critical Race Theory. I’ve stood up to COVID tyranny by protecting small businesses from rogue government agencies and by banning any Arizona government from requiring a COVID vaccine.
God has blessed me with an incredible wife and 5 wonderful children. Simply put, I refuse to sit on the sidelines while radical leftists try to strip our children of the liberties, opportunities, and freedom our Constitution guarantees them. Freedom must win.- I'm a proven, constitutional conservative.
- I always make decisions prayerfully, in accordance with the Constitution, and in the best interest of the people I represent.
- There is no one that will fight harder than me to keep government limited and accountable to you.
In our compound Republic, the several states created the federal government, yet today state legislatures have forgotten their true power. Legislators must reclaim their rightful authority under our divinely established form of government and reassert their control over the federal government. Electing legislators who understand the importance of states' power is the only way we will return our great nation to the shining city upon the hill that President Reagan so often spoke of.
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2020
Jake Hoffman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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2024
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In 2024, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 8 to June 15.
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2023
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In 2023, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 9 to July 31.
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2022
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In 2022, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 10 to June 25.
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2021
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In 2021, the Arizona State Legislature was in session from January 11 to June 30.
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Noteworthy events
In April 2024, Hoffman was indicted by an Arizona grand jury for his alleged connection with a plan for Arizona's Republican electors to falsely proclaim Donald Trump won the state in 2020.[2]
On June 6, Hoffman pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges: conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and nine counts of forgery. Hoffman said in a statement that he was “innocent of any crime”. He is due to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on July 2.[3]
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Arizona State Senate District 15 |
Officeholder Arizona State Senate District 15 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 3, 2022
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "Fake elector Jake Hoffman enters not guilty plea in Maricopa County court," accessed June 7, 2024
- ↑ Office if the Indiana Attorney General, "Case Number CR2024006850," accessed June 7, 2024
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Nancy K. Barto (R) |
Arizona State Senate District 15 2023-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by Warren Petersen (R) |
Arizona House of Representatives District 12 2021-2023 |
Succeeded by - |
