Arizona · 2026 election coverage

Maricopa County

2026 election results for Maricopa County. Find municipal contests by city or town, explore school-board races and district measures, or open every covered contest in the county ballot.

82% counted

An estimate, from the county's progress in the governor's race. How Arizona's count runs.

Official county results. These are the contests in the county's results file, not an address-specific sample ballot. Eligibility varies by district and precinct.

Results file posted Nov 5, 8:21 AM. Source checked Nov 5, 5:30 PM.

Covered contests: 270
Propositions with yes/no returns: 64
Incorporated cities & towns: 25

Observed returns, unofficial until certified. “Ahead” describes the current count; it is not a local race call. Candidate selections in multi-seat contests are not ballots. Precinct reporting does not establish how many ballots remain.

Reading the county count

The governor's race

1,368,707 valid candidate selections are reported for governor in this county observation. Katie Hobbs ahead by 215,442 votes (15.7 points).

This is a county portion of a statewide contest. A county lead is not a statewide election outcome.

Where the count is close

Phoenix ESD #1-GBM-4yr: 10 votes between the current last seat position and the next candidate.

The smallest verifiable seat-boundary gap among covered candidate contests with a known seat count. A gap is withheld if unassigned write-ins could change its ranking. District races show this county's portion.

Among the 64 covered propositions with yes/no choices, Yes is ahead in 52 and No in 12. Ties and unreported counts remain unresolved. These are observed leads, not declarations that a measure passed or failed.

Presidential voting history

Final county returns from 2000–2024. Different offices and electorates make this context for 2026, not a like-for-like estimate of the current election's final result.

Year	Democratic votes	Republican votes	All votes	Margin
2000	386,683	479,967	901,699	R +10.3
2004	504,849	679,455	1,192,751	R +14.6
2008	602,166	746,448	1,364,962	R +10.6
2012	602,288	749,885	1,376,558	R +10.7
2016	702,907	747,361	1,567,834	R +2.8
2020	1,040,769	995,659	2,068,133	D +2.2
2024	980,130	1,052,036	2,055,576	R +3.5

Margin is Democratic minus Republican share of all valid votes. Historical returns are final; current returns remain unofficial. MIT Election Data and Science Lab (CC0 (MEDSL)); Polling Forecast; original VEST (CC BY 4.0 (VEST / Polling Forecast)); Polling Forecast; original MEDSL (CC0 (MEDSL); CC BY 4.0 (Polling Forecast redistribution)).

Sources & scope

Reported contest data: Maricopa County official results file.
Maricopa County election office for local ballot information, official returns and address-specific resources.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau, July 1, 2025 estimates. Counts are for residents, not registered voters or ballots.
Election rules and reporting limits: our methodology. Judicial background: Arizona judicial performance review.

We do not infer local winners, certification, turnout, remaining ballots or citywide or districtwide results from precinct percentages, population, county totals or the number of seats. Your own ballot depends on your registered address.