Arizona Governor 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Arizona.
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What the Arizona Governor election decides
State government decides most of what touches daily life directly: schools, roads, policing, public health, utilities regulation, and the state's share of healthcare programs. A governor's veto and budget proposal set the boundaries of what a legislature can do.
A governor signs or vetoes state law, proposes the state budget, commands the state's emergency response, and in most states shapes how elections themselves are administered. Arizona decides this alongside its 9 House seats. Governors are judged on results inside the state rather than on national mood alone, which is why governor's races often break differently from federal contests held the same day.
How Arizona votes
Arizona has become one of the country's most closely fought states, driven by fast growth in metro Phoenix, a large Latino electorate, retiree communities, and water and border issues that sit atop most statewide campaigns. That backdrop is the ground any Arizona campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 Arizona gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Arizona. Democratic incumbent Katie Hobbs won a second term, handily defeating Republican congressman Andy Biggs by 13 points, a win significantly larger than her 2022 margin of victory of 0.67%.
Primary elections took place on July 21, 2026. Hobbs secured the Democratic nomination unopposed. Biggs secured the Republican nomination over congressman David Schweikert with 73.6% of the vote.
Following the passage of Proposition 131 in the 2022 elections, this was the first gubernatorial election in Arizona in which candidates would be required to nominate a running mate for the newly established position of lieutenant governor. This was one of five Democratic-held governorships up for election in 2026 in a state that Donald Trump won in the 2024 presidential election.
Latest coverage of the Arizona Governor race
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Every Arizona House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Arizona state page.
Analysis covering Arizona
Ten whole congressional districts fit inside Los Angeles County
Seventy-nine of the 435 districts sit entirely within a single county. Ten of them are in one county in California.
One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.
New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.