Voters in Maricopa County sent Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio into retirement after serving 24 years as the county’s top cop.

Arpaio, a Fountain Hills resident, was defeated by challenger Paul Penzone in Tuesday’s election.

Penzone received 603,347 votes to Arpaio’s 489,207 for the initial unofficial count.

In the State Legislature for District 23 where Fountain Hills is located, Senator John Kavanagh, a local resident, was unopposed and will return to the state senate.

In the race for the Arizona House of Representatives in the district incumbents Michelle Ugenti-Rita (50,439) and Jay Lawrence (47,285), both Republicans, were re-elected over a challenge from Democrat Tami Caputi (34,365).

The controversial initiative to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Arizona (Prop 205) was defeated in Tuesday’s election with 372,653 votes in support and 428,962 against.

Proposition 206, the initiative for an incremental increase in minimum wage in Arizona passed with 644,729 yes votes to 448,253 votes against.

Congressman David Schweikert, a Fountain Hills resident, representing Arizona District 6 in the US House easily won re-election over challenger John Williamson. Schweikert received 141,669 votes to 91,839 for Williamson.

U.S. Senator John McCain held off a challenge from former Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick to with re-election. Those preliminary numbers were 594,656 for McCain and 434,841 for Kirkpatrick.

Other races of interest include Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for District 2, where Fountain Hills is located, Supervisor Steve Chucri was unopposed.

Three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission went to Bob Burns, Boyd Dunn and Andy Tobin.

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell noted in a tweet late Tuesday that there were still about 370,000 ballots still to be counted in Maricopa County. The Arizona Secretary of State's Office did not have a complete tally of uncounted ballots statewide.