Camp Verde Vice Mayor Wendy Escoffier and newcomer Gary Thompson have filed to run for mayor of Camp Verde, following the Monday, March 23, candidate petition filing deadline.
Incumbent Councilwomen Robin Godwin and Patricia Seybold, former Councilwoman Jackie Baker, challenger Renee Hall and 2024 council write-in candidate Tanner Bryson have filed petitions to fill three seats on council.
Election day is Tuesday, July 21. Mathematically, at least one candidate will be elected outright. If two of the other four candidates don’t earn 50% plus one vote in the primary to win a seat outright, the top two vote-getters or all four will campaign in a runoff, held at the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Mathematical Probabilities for the July 21 primary and Nov. 3 runoff election
Threshold calculation: Because each voter casts 3 votes, the total vote pool is 3× the number of voters. A candidate must exceed 50% of that total. So in a 1,000-voter election, there are 3,000 votes cast and the magic number is 1,501 per candidate.
Why a full sweep is rare but possible: Since votes aren’t zero-sum in the same way (one voter can support 3 candidates), it’s theoretically possible for all 3 winning candidates to each clear 50%+1 — but it would require nearly unanimous consensus. In a competitive 4-candidate race, runoffs are the more likely outcome for at least one seat.
What’s impossible: All 4 candidates clearing the threshold simultaneously. Since there are only 3 seats and the threshold is set above 50%, at most 3 can qualify.
Yavapai County Board of Supervisors
Current interim Camp Verde Mayor Marie Moore will be running as a Republican for the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors District 2 seat, currently held by Moore’s predecessor, Dee Jenkins, who was appointed to the board on April 16, 2025. Jenkins has announced that she is not seeking the full term, after being appointed to fill a vacancy.
Also seeking Republican nomination for District 2 are Wiley Cline, who previously ran for the seat, and Victor Dartt, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office captain from Dewey-Humboldt. Democrat Peter Cline had filed a Statement of Interest for the seat but did not submit his nomination petitions.
The filing deadline for write in candidates is Friday, May 22. The voter registration deadline is Monday, June, 22. Early voting takes place from Wednesday, June 24, through Wednesday, July 17.
