Election results will be posted here after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Bookmark this page if you want to check results as they are posted.
Camp Verde Town Councilwoman Jessie Murdock has won reelection. She will likely be joined by newcomers Robert Forman and Brian Bolton. Longtime Camp Verde Town Councilwoman Jackie Baker, who has served on council for 19 years, lost her reelection bid.
Mingus Union High School Governing Board voters split their votes between two camps of candidates. Ashley Koepnick, Taylor Bell and incumbent Carol Ann Teague won election. Koepnick and Bell’s ally, Rev. Frank Nevarez, was defeated, as were Teague’s allies James Ariola and Joe Wegwert, Ph.D.
Cottonwood City Councilwoman Lisa DuVernay has been recalled and will be removed from office. Challenger Christopher Dowell has been elected to replace her.
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“The voters have made their voices heard! Now it’s time to focus on the work ahead for our city,” Dowell stated late Tuesday, Nov. 5. “I extend my best wishes to my opponent in her future endeavors. With this newly elected council, we will work together to move our city forward. Thank you to everyone who supported me and trusts in my ability to represent our entire community.”
“Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the past two years,” DuVernay stated early Wednesday, Nov. 6. “It’s been a long journey, and now I’m looking forward to some well-deserved rest and quality time with my family. Congratulations to my opponent—I am proud of our democratic process, and my love for our country remains steadfast.”
Joy Mosley ran uncontested after Lindsay Masten withdrew from the runoff election. Mosley won 2,894 of the votes cast, but more than a third of voters chose not to cast a vote in that race.
The Cottonwood General Plan passed, but about 15% of voters, or 3 in 20, did not vote on the item. Only the votes cast count for or against.
Arizona State Legislature
Republicans currently have a majority in the Arizona State Legislature, 16-14 in the Arizona State Senate and 31-29 in the Arizona State House of Representatives.
Election Day
Today, Tuesday, Nov. 5, is election day. Voters have until 7 p.m. to vote in person or drop their early ballots in an dropbox or turn in their ballots at an election center.
The tabulation process for the General Election takes time. All elections results are preliminary and unofficial until they are officially canvased by the Board of Supervisors of Arizona’s 15 counties in mid-November.
Timeline on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 5
- 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. polling stations are open.
- 7 p.m. polls close. Vote center officials and volunteers take ballots to the county elections offices.
- 8 p.m. Counties post the first batch of results, which are early ballots exclusively. These are the ballots counted from start of tabulation on Monday, Oct. 21. These are generally not the ballots cast on election day, except in smaller counties.
- 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. election night: Election Day ballot tabulation. Depending on the county, ballots could be counted and posted by county officials every few minutes in large, urban counties like Maricopa, Pima and Pinal, or in groups every few hours in rural counties like Coconino and Yavapai.
Timeline on Wednesday, Nov. 6
- About noon Nov. 6: Final Election Day ballots from remote areas like the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon and the Navajo Nation are counted. Any ballots requiring the duplication check process are counted.
Timeline through Monday, Nov. 11
- Early ballots dropped off on Election Day and provisional or conditional ballots are counted through Monday, Nov. 11.
- The cure deadline is Sunday, Nov. 10, so tabulation cannot be completed until Monday, Nov. 11, at the earliest. Curing is the process of resolving any problems with a signature on the green affidavit envelope for early voting. For a ballot to be tabulated, county recorders must have a verified signature each election cycle.
There is a small window of time to cure signature issues. The deadline to cure a ballot packet is 5 calendar days post-Election Day for any Federal Election such as a Primary, General or March Presidential Preference Election or 3 calendar days post-Election Day for all other local elections. This schedule is subject to change based on the number of ballots received on Election Day.
