Election Name: | 2019 Tucson mayoral election |
Flag Image: | Flag of Tucson, Arizona.svg |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Year: | 2015 |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Election Date: | November 5, 2019 |
Candidate1: | Regina Romero |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 47,273 |
Percentage1: | 55.72% |
Candidate2: | Edward Ackerley |
Party2: | Independent politician |
Popular Vote2: | 33,673 |
Percentage2: | 39.69% |
Map Size: | 260px |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Jonathan Rothschild |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Regina Romero |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 2019 Tucson mayoral election was held on November 5, 2019. It saw the election of Regina Romero.
Primaries were held August 27, 2019. Three candidates ran in the Democratic primary, one official write-in ran in the Green primary, while none ran in either the Libertarian or Republican primaries.
Poll source | Date(s) administered | class=small | Sample size | Margin of error | Ed Ackerley | Randi Dorman | Steve Farley | Regina Romero | Undecided | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arizona Daily Star/Strongpoint Opinion Research[1] | July 2019 | 1,693 | 10% | 6% | align=center | 31% | 15% | 36% |
While both Frank Konarski and Sam Nagy filed paperwork to run for the Republican nomination, neither met the signature requirements to get on the ballot.[2]
Regina Romero was elected the first-ever female mayor of Tucson,[6] and the first Hispanic mayor of the city since the Latino Estevan Ochoa was mayor from 1875 to 1876.[6]
This is the first time in over 30 years that Republicans have not run a candidate in an open-seat Tucson mayoral race.[7]