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Clayton, Howard defeat incumbents in LD27

Fink, Rivero still very close for second House seat

 Democrats Kyle Clayton (Senate) and Deborah Howard (House) have won their respective races against incumbents in Arizona's 27th Legislative District.

A single state Senate seat and two House seats were on the ballot in the  Nov. 3 election.

 In the most recent update at 5:27 a.m. Nov. 8, Clayton, a Phoenix resident, added to his lead over Kevin Payne, a Republican from Glendale, with 39,694 votes (52.97%) compared to Payne's 35,163 (46.93%).

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