As the Nov. 3 election approaches, Arizona voters will be choosing officials and ballot measures at the local, state and federal levels.
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How can I check my own voter registration details?
Use this tool to check whether you’re registered to vote, which party you’re registered with, whether you need to update your address, or whether you’re on the early voting list (called AEVL). You must have registered to vote by Oct. 5 to participate in the general election.
Key election dates
Oct. 5
Deadline to register to vote
Oct. 7
Mail ballots are sent;
early voting begins
Oct. 23
Last day to request
a mail-in ballot
Oct. 27
Last day to mail
your ballot back
Oct. 30
Last day to vote early
in person
Nov. 3
General Election Day
Voting FAQs
How can I find a polling place or a vote center?
You can vote early in-person Oct. 7-30. You can also vote in-person on Election Day, Nov. 3.
Pima County: Use this tool.
Around the state: Use this tool to find a polling place.
What to bring to the polls
At the polls on Election Day you must provide your name and place of residence and present identification to the election official.
The photo ID can be one of the following:
- Valid Arizona driver license
- Valid Arizona non-operating identification card
- Tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification
- Valid United States federal, state, or local government-issued identification
If you don’t have any of those IDs, you can provide two of the following:
- Utility bill of the elector that is dated within 90 days of the date of the election. A utility bill may be for electric, gas, water, solid waste, sewer, telephone, cellular phone, or cable television
- Bank or credit union statement that is dated within 90 days of the date of the election
- Valid Arizona vehicle registration
- Indian census card
- Property tax statement of the elector’s residence
- Tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification
- Arizona vehicle insurance card
- Recorder’s Certificate
- Valid United States federal, state, or local government-issued identification, including a voter registration card issued by the county recorder
- Any mailing to the elector marked “Official Election Material”
If you don’t have two of those, there’s a third option:
- Any valid photo identification from the first list in which the address does not reasonably match the precinct register accompanied by a non-photo identification from the second list in which the address does reasonably match the precinct register
- U.S. passport without address and one valid item from List 2
- U.S. military identification without address and one valid item from List 2
Valid identification is also required prior to receiving a ballot at any in-person early voting location or emergency vote center or from a special election board.
How can I vote by mail?
Ballots will be mailed to registered voters on the early voting list on Oct. 7. You can also request a one-time early ballot by Oct. 23. Go to the Arizona Voter Information Portal. Or in Pima County, request a ballot by mail from the county recorder’s office. Find links for other counties. To join the Active Early Voting List (AEVL) and get a ballot-by-mail for all future elections, update your voter registration here and select AEVL.
The recommended deadline to mail your ballot is Oct. 27.
Remember to sign your early ballot or your vote may not count.
Curing (fixing) an early/mail-in ballot
A ballot needs to be “cured” if poll workers question the validity of your signature or if you forgot to sign your early ballot. Voters who need to address an inconsistent signature between their ballot and registration card must do so no later than the fifth business day after a primary, general or special election day that includes a federal office, according to Arizona law. The 2024 election includes races for federal office.
If a voter submits a ballot without a signature, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections must make an effort to contact the voter, advise them of the missing signature and allow the voter to add their signature no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day, according to Arizona law.
- In Pima County, you can get a replacement ballot at any Ballot Replacement Site or Vote Center, and you will need ID. You can request a new ballot here.
- In Maricopa County, more info about curing is available here.
- Have more questions or live outside of Pima and Maricopa counties? The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office has the contact information and county recorder websites for all county elections officials here.
Voting rights
Pima County voters can track the status of their early ballot here. Maricopa County voters can track their early ballot here. Voters in other parts of Arizona can track their early ballot here. Find out more about election security here.
Know your voting rights / Spanish version
NALEO ¡Ve y Vota! Spanish/English languages: Call 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA or 1-888-839-8682
Arizona Native Vote Election Protect Project: If you experience issues voting call this hotline: 1-888-777-3831
APIA VOTE and AAJC Asian languages: Call 1-888-API-VOTE or 1-888-274-8683
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law/10 languages:
Disability Rights Arizona: 602-274-6287 or 1-800-927-2260 from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. See more resources for voters with a disability from the Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
More general voting resources from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
Native voters in Arizona and elsewhere have long faced discrimination and obstacles when it comes to casting a ballot. For more information about your rights, Arizona’s Native voters can sign up with Arizona Native Vote, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Indigenous and rural communities participate in elections.
Arizona Native Vote Election Protect Project: If you experience issues voting call this hotline: 1-888-777-3831
Members of federally-recognized tribes are not required to have an address or photo on their tribal identification in order to cast a provisional ballot, according to the Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
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U.S. House of Representatives
This district is considered a swing district with a history of close elections and it’s been called a toss up again this year. It includes all of Greenlee and parts of Pima, Pinal, Cochise and Graham counties. Use this tool to look up which district you live in.
Juan Ciscomani has held the position since 2023 and before that he was a senior adviser to former Governor Doug Ducey.
Ciscomani is a moderate Republican and he got an A grade for bipartisanship from Bridge Grades, a project of the Colorado-based Mediators Foundation.
He won his first race in 2022 by 5,232 votes, and won reelection in 2024 by 10,822 votes. In both cases his opponent was Democrat Kirsten Engel. Now, with two terms of experience in Congress, he faces a new challenger in Democrat JoAnna Mendoza.
Mendoza served 20 years in the Navy and Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. She served as a Marine Corps drill instructor before returning to Arizona, where she worked as a staffer for Rep. Tom O’Halleran.
Mendoza has not previously held elected office. She ran and lost in an Arizona State Senate race in 2020.
Both parties are investing heavily in winning this race. As of July 1, Ciscomani had raised $6.17 million and Mendoza had raised $7.35 million.
Voters can also choose third-party candidates in this race — Libertarian Jereme Peters and Green candidate Gary Swing.
Swing has run for office more than a dozen times as a third-party candidate in Colorado and Arizona.
Third-party candidates have factored into recent CD6 election outcomes. In 2024, Green candidate Athena Eastwood won 10,759 votes — nearly matching Ciscomani’s 10,822-vote margin over Engel.
Independent Michael Dorland is running a write-in campaign.
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This Democratic-leaning district stretches along the U.S.-México border and includes parts of six counties: Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise, Maricopa and Pinal as well as several tribal nations including the Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham. Use this tool to look up which district you live in.
Voters chose Democrat Adelita Grijalva in a special election in September 2025 to finish the term of her father, the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva. Before she was elected to Congress, she served on the Pima County Board of Supervisors and the Tucson Unified School District governing board.
Her opponent is Republican Daniel Butierez, a painting contractor who has not previously held elected office. He lost to her in the special election by 40,204 votes and previously lost to her father in 2024 by 72,897 votes.
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State-level elected officials
Arizona Governor
For the first time in Arizona, candidates for governor run as a joint ticket with a lieutenant governor candidate, after voters approved Proposition 131 in 2022.
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is seeking a second term. She was a social worker before winning a seat in the Legislature in 2010, was elected secretary of state in 2018, and beat Republican Kari Lake for governor in 2022. That race was close: Hobbs won by 17,117 votes, 50.3% to 49.6%.
Hobbs points to a state budget she signed with a $1.4 billion tax cut and no state tax on tips and overtime pay. She also helped erase medical debt for nearly 700,000 Arizonans. Hobbs is a sharp critic of President Donald Trump and blames his tariffs for rising costs. Her running mate is John Giles, who was Mesa’s mayor until 2025. He was a Republican until May, when he registered as an independent.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs was elected to Congress in 2016. Before that he served in the state legislature for more than a decade, including as Senate president from 2013 to 2017. He chaired the House Freedom Caucus from 2019 to 2022, and he voted against accepting Arizona’s electoral votes after the 2020 election. Biggs won the July primary with about 74% of the vote, beating Rep. David Schweikert. His running mate is Sine Kerr, a former state senator and Senate majority whip with a background in agriculture.
Biggs wants to eliminate Arizona’s 2.5% flat income tax. Trump endorsed him and Turning Point Action backs him.
Both campaigns say they’ll lower costs, and both are running attack ads. Biggs has attacked Hobbs over rate increases for Sunshine Residential, a contractor for the state Department of Child Safety. Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, announced Aug. 21 that her office found no evidence of pay-to-play and would not file charges. Hobbs’ office says she did not direct the rate increases.
Risa Lombardo is the Green Party candidate. She is a retired legal secretary. She says she would stop data centers and end the use of Flock cameras. The Arizona Green Party is “actively opposed” to her candidacy.
Teri Ann Hourihan is the No Labels candidate. She is a Phoenix mental health counselor. Hourihan says her top priority is rooting out corruption in state agencies. She also wants to address the water shortage through conservation and desalination and improve health care access.
Two additional Republicans are running write-in campaigns: Gertritrude Gonzalez and Alice Novoa.
Arizona Secretary of State
The highest-profile duty of this office is overseeing elections. Since the 2020 election, this office has drawn more attention, and the winner will run elections in 2028, when Arizona is expected to be a presidential battleground again.
Democrat Adrian Fontes has held the office since 2023. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a former prosecutor. He was elected Maricopa County recorder in 2016.
Fontes says Arizona’s elections are fair and secure and don’t need a major overhaul. He has fought the Trump administration’s effort to get the state’s unredacted voter rolls. Federal judges rejected that bid in Arizona and in about two dozen other states.
Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin is an elections lawyer and a member of the Arizona Freedom Caucus. He was elected to the Arizona House in 2022 and won the July primary over former Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda.
Kolodin was part of a lawsuit filed after the 2020 election that alleged the presidential race was stolen from President Donald Trump. The State Bar of Arizona sanctioned him in 2023 for his role in that case and others and placed him on 18 months of probation. At an Aug. 31 debate, Fontes called him an architect of the “Big Lie.”
Kolodin blamed Fontes for problems with the state’s election system. He says his changes would restore trust in Arizona’s elections and make sure ballots are counted on time. He backs Proposition 144, a legislative referral on the ballot that would require ID for all voters, including those who vote by mail, and allow polling places to count early ballots dropped off in person.
The Green Party nominee is Duwayne Collier. The party says it opposes Collier’s candidacy.
Arizona Attorney General
The AG is the state’s chief law enforcement officer, with a focus on consumer protections, civil rights, enforcement actions, litigation, and defending or challenging state laws. The AG has significant discretion about which laws to defend or challenge.
Incumbent Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly won in 2022 by 280 votes.
Mayes has filed nearly 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration. Whoever wins will decide whether Arizona keeps suing the Trump administration.
Mayes was a journalist, worked in Gov. Janet Napolitano’s administration, served on the Arizona Corporation Commission and taught at the Arizona State University law school before she was elected attorney general.
Republican challenger Warren Petersen is currently president of the Arizona State Senate. The Republican-led Senate passed a resolution calling for Mayes to resign after she said an armed Arizonan and a masked federal immigration agent could be a “recipe for disaster.” Mayes later clarified that her concern is for the safety of both residents and law enforcement.
Petersen, a real estate broker and lawyer, has served in the Legislature since 2013.
Petersen has said the 2020 election results were certified “prematurely,” and he helped launch the Cyber Ninjas audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 results, but he disputes being called an election denier.
Mayes declined to defend some abortion restrictions in court and said she would not prosecute under the 1864 ban. (It was repealed in 2024.) Petersen intervened to defend a 2021 abortion law Mayes would not defend.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Treasurer Kimberly Yee and former Glendale Community College president Teresa Leyba Ruiz are competing for the state’s top education role.
The superintendent heads the Arizona Department of Education, oversees the state’s K-12 public school system and sits on the Arizona Board of Regents. The office also runs the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program, known as ESAs, which pays for private school tuition and other education costs.
The superintendent can’t raise school funding alone and would have to persuade the Legislature to do that.
Yee was elected state treasurer in 2018 and reelected in 2022, and she can’t run for that role again. She is a former state senator who has championed ESAs and school choice since her time in the Legislature.
Leyba Ruiz is a first-time candidate and a former math teacher who retired as president of Glendale Community College. She now works for the nonprofit Education Forward Arizona.
Ruiz says she would end the automatic approval of ESA purchases of $2,000 or less and push for more oversight of the program. She blames ESAs and low per-pupil funding for school closures and crowded classrooms.
Two people are running write-in campaigns: Gerard Davis, of the Green Party, worked as a case manager for the Department of Child Safety and the Department of Economic Security. Stephen Neal Jr., of the No Labels party, worked as a school psychologist and a special education director.
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Arizona Corporation Commission
The five-member Arizona Corporation Commission decides how much Arizonans pay for electricity, gas and water — and they will address rising concerns about data centers and renewable energy. Also at stake is Tucson Electric Power’s rate case.
Two seats are up in 2026. Thompson is the only incumbent on the ballot. Voters will choose two of the candidates on their ballot to serve four-year terms. Currently all five commissioners are Republicans.
Arizona State Senate featured race
District 17
Candidates are vying for an open seat as Republican Sen. Vince Leach retires. This district is one of the most competitive in the state and it has a history of close elections, with the 2024 and 2022 races decided by about 2 percentage points.
District 17 covers a small part of Pinal County and parts of northeastern Pima County, including Oro Valley, Marana, SaddleBrooke, Catalina, Tucson’s east side and Vail. Use this tool to look up which district you live in.
Republican Christopher King is a member of the Vail Unified School District governing board and works as a substitute teacher in the district. He was elected in 2020 and reelected in 2024. King is a retired Air Force veteran who served as a bomb disposal technician. He also serves on the Arizona School Boards Association board.
Democrat Edgar Soto is a Marine veteran and vice president of Pima Community College’s Desert Vista campus. He serves on the board of the Southern Arizona Sports, Tourism and Film Authority. Soto previously ran and lost a race for Pima County Board of Supervisors in 2024.
Arizona State House featured races
District 16
Voters will choose two representatives in this highly competitive district. District 16 includes parts of Tucson’s west side and parts of Pima County, plus parts of Pinal and Maricopa counties. Use this tool to look up which district you live in.
Casa Grande Republican incumbents Teresa Martinez and Chris Lopez are both seeking reelection. Martinez was appointed in 2021 to represent another district and was elected to District 16 in 2022. Lopez has served for one term.
Democrat Julia Romero Gusse served two terms on the Maricopa City Council and she served as a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
District 17
Voters will choose two representatives in this highly competitive district, which covers a small part of Pinal County and parts of northeastern Pima County, including Oro Valley, Marana, SaddleBrooke, Catalina, Tucson’s east side and Vail. Use this tool to look up which district you live in.
The incumbents, Republican Rachel Jones Keshel and Democrat Kevin Volk are seeking reelection. The challengers are Republican John Winchester, who previously ran for the Pima County Board of Supervisors in 2016, and Democrat Hollace “Holly” Lyon, who previously ran for the House in 2018 and 2014 in a different district.
School boards
Amphitheater Public Schools
Five candidates are running for three seats on the Amphitheater Public Schools Governing Board.
The Amphi board will continue to navigate right-sizing the district, which closed four schools last spring. It will also vote next year on a new superintendent, as Todd Jaeger is set to retire at the end of this school year.
The two-year term open seat is a race between Michael Gemma and Kimberly Outlaw Ryan.
Both applied for the seat a year ago when it was vacated because of a death on the board. Former Canyon del Oro High School principal Gemma was appointed in 2025. Ryan is the deputy general counsel of the Tucson Airport Authority.
The Amphi district runs from north Tucson through unincorporated Pima County, Oro Valley and Catalina.
Amphitheater Public Schools – two-year term
Amphitheater Public Schools – four-year term
Running for two, four-year seats are John Fife, a retired 30-year teacher, Nina Godlewski, a retired teacher after nearly two decades, and Elizabeth Slater, the chief executive officer of Youth on Their Own, a nonprofit dropout prevention organization.
Pima JTED – District 2
Pima County’s Joint Technical Education District has one open seat and two candidates. As JTED navigates explosive growth, it also has a bond on the ballot. Incumbent Cindy Rankin is a physiology professor at the University of Arizona who has served nearly 12 years on the JTED board. Challenger Beth Lehr has been an educator for over 20 years and most recently was the assistant principal at Sahuarita High School.
Sahuarita Unified School District
Three candidates are running for two seats on the Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board. Incumbent John Sparks is the president of the board and seeks his fourth term. He is a mental health nurse practitioner. Incumbent Raul Rodriguez, a Pima County corrections officer, seeks his second term. Christen Sundberg is a write-in candidate.
Tucson Unified School District
Five candidates are running for two seats on the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board.
Two incumbents, Jennifer Eckstrom, a Pima County employee, and businessman Val Romero are running for reelection. Those two face Pilar Acosta Ruiz, a civic leader with a background in bookkeeping and nonprofit work, educator Skye Fernandez and University of Arizona student Tre’Davon Rhodes.
Tanque Verde Unified School District
Four candidates will vie for two seats on the Tanque Verde governing board. Incumbent Beth Peterson is a software engineer. Piper Jordan is a former Tanque Verde teacher. Write-in candidate Erik Nystrom is the chief financial officer of Pima Medical Institute. Thomas Trask is an Air Force veteran and educator.
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