Here are the candidates in Arizona's 6th Congressional District

This year’s 6th Congressional District candidates are Democrat Kirsten Engel and Republican Juan Ciscomani.

Democratic incumbent Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick is retiring and leaving her U.S. House seat open. That district, formerly southeastern Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, now has been reconfigured into the new 6th Congressional District.

Here is more information on the candidates in the Nov. 8 general election:

Democrat Kirsten Engel

Former state Sen. Kirsten Engel, D-Tucson, assumed office in the Legislature in January 2021. She announced in September her resignation from that office to run for Congress.

"Kirsten is running for Congress to fight for access to quality affordable healthcare and protect our environment and natural resources," Engel's campaign website says.

Her website identifies her campaign issues as protecting the environment and advocating that Arizona should become the solar energy capital of the world.

Other issues include rebuilding the economy and focusing on physical infrastructure such as rural broadband, commerce and transportation, along with social infrastructure like job training, child support, and college and career readiness.

Expanding affordable health care, lowering prices of prescription drugs, fighting for reproductive rights, and supporting Medicare and Social Security also are listed.

Engel previously worked at the Massachusetts Office of Attorney General and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Republican Juan Ciscomani

Juan Ciscomani for the last seven years has been a senior adviser for regional and international affairs under Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.

Ciscomani's campaign website features issues he is campaigning on, including border security to stop drug smugglers and human traffickers through more personnel and technology and by finishing the border wall. Election integrity is listed: He says he stands against efforts to undermine ID laws, register ineligible voters, allow felons to vote and use "taxpayer money to fund campaign attack ads."

Ciscomani lists "conservative values" as a campaign priority, specifying his support for the First and Second Amendments and an anti-abortion-rights agenda, and his opposition to critical race theory.

Ciscomani formerly served as the vice president of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona's 6th Congressional District: Kirsten Engle, Juan Ciscomani