Editing Ed Pastor (section)

===Elections===
In 1991, Pastor entered a special election to succeed retiring 28-year incumbent Democrat [[Mo Udall]] in the 2nd District, which then comprised the southwestern part of Arizona, including half of Tucson and portions of southern Phoenix.<ref name=AP>{{cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/5ffb58041d3547ae8a17864de58e4a47|title=Ex-Rep. Ed Pastor, Arizona's 1st Hispanic congressman, dies|date=November 28, 2018 |publisher=AP News|access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref>  Pastor won a narrow victory in the four-way Democratic primary, defeating his closest challenger, Tucson mayor [[Thomas J. Volgy|Tom Volgy]], by 1,800 votes.<ref name=Racedetail>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=422840 Race detail of 1991 special election primary]</ref> He was the only major candidate from the Phoenix share of the district.

He then won the special election a month later with 55 percent of the vote to become the first Latino to represent Arizona in Congress.<ref name=AP/> He was reelected four times without substantive [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] opposition, never dropping below 60% of the vote.<ref name=TDS>{{cite web|author=Step Back in Time |url=https://www.thedailystar.com/cnhi_network/ex-rep-ed-pastor-arizona-s-st-hispanic-congressman-dies/article_de737028-b3fc-556e-a941-d9ef0b16f4ba.html |title=Ex-Rep. Ed Pastor, Arizona's 1st Hispanic congressman, dies &#124; Don't Miss This |publisher=thedailystar.com |access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref>

Pastor's former territory was renumbered as the [[Arizona's 7th congressional district|7th District]] following the [[2000 United States Census|2000 census]], but his home in Phoenix was drawn into the newly created 4th District.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc225-3-15.pdf|title=Ed Pastor|publisher=GPO.Gov|access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref> Rather than move to the Phoenix portion of the reconfigured 7th, he opted to run in the 4th.<ref name=AP/> The newly created district was heavily Democratic and majority-Latino, with Democrats having a nearly 2-to-1 advantage in registration, similar to his old district.<ref>[http://azsos.gov/election/voterreg/Active_Voter_Count.pdf azsos.gov] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418164412/http://www.azsos.gov/election/VoterReg/Active_Voter_Count.pdf |date=April 18, 2007 }}</ref> He was reelected six times against nominal Republican opposition.<ref>[http://azsos.gov/election/PreviousYears.htm azsos.gov] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329023507/http://www.azsos.gov/election/PreviousYears.htm |date=March 29, 2007 }}</ref>