 Lozano first won election as a Democrat in 2010, having unseated in the primary the incumbent, Tara Rios Ybarra.He then polled 12,351 votes (77.9 percent) that year against his Libertarian opponent, Richard W. Shuey.He switched to the Republican Party in 2012, when he narrowly won the general election that year over Democrat Yvonne Gonzalez Toureilles, 24,074 (51.6 percent) to 22,629 (48.5 percent).