2019 Tucson mayoral election


The 2019 Tucson mayoral election was held on November 5, 2019. It saw the election of Regina Romero.

Nominations

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.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Not running in Democratic Primary

Results

Green primary

Libertarian primary

Republican primary

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.

Independent candidates

Regina Romero was elected the first-ever female mayor of Tucson, and the first latinx mayor of the city since the Latino Estevan Ochoa was mayor from 1875 to 1876.
This is the first time in over 30 years that Republicans have not run a candidate in an open-seat Tucson mayoral race.