Arizona Governor — 2026

Arizona Governor is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. A governor is the state’s chief executive. Term length and term limits are in that state’s constitution, not in a national statute. In plain terms, what is at stake is the state’s chief executive: the budget the office proposes and the bills it is asked to sign or veto under the state constitution. It is not a national scoreboard. Control of a chamber, where the office sits in one, depends on every other seat as well. This page is one contest.

Katie Hobbs, the sitting governor, faces Andy Biggs, with Green and other candidates also listed. Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball have both published Lean Democratic labels, dated on the guide. There is no U.S. Senate race in Arizona this year, so the governor’s race shares the top of the ballot with eight propositions from the publicity pamphlet. Most of the state stays on standard time while the Navajo Nation observes daylight time, which affects when polls close there.

The principal names on the guide are Katie Hobbs (DEM); Andy Biggs (REP). Katie Hobbs is cited to Maricopa County official ballot, general election, November 3, 2026 (City of Scottsdale sample, precinct 0728). Andy Biggs is cited to Maricopa County official ballot, general election, November 3, 2026 (City of Scottsdale sample, precinct 0728). Each of those sentences identifies a listing. It does not quote a speech. A campaign site is the candidate’s own words. This preview does not paste one unless a sentence above names that page, and these sentences name the election-office or Clerk list instead.

Cook Political Report published Lean D as of August 27, 2026; Sabato's Crystal Ball published Lean D as of September 3, 2026. Those labels belong to the outlets. This site does not average them and does not treat them as a prediction of the canvass. One survey stored here is HighGround, Aug 25, 2026: Hobbs 50, Biggs 34 (Hobbs +16). The sample line is “See source.” The figures are that release, linked on the poll table. They are not an average, not a model, and not a forecast.

Voters comparing 2026 with the last gubernatorial canvass should open Arizona’s certified results. This preview does not insert a prior percentage it has not copied from that canvass. A close prior race explains why county reporting order will be watched. It does not decide this one.

Arizona counts this ballot under its own calendar. Registration, early voting, and mail-ballot deadlines that this site has checked sit on the voting-deadlines page and on the state hub, each tied to an official page. Totals on election night are unofficial. Mail ballots, provisional ballots, and any later round the state requires can move them. Turnout is a ratio that changes with the denominator — voting-age population, registered voters, or ballots counted — and the Census Bureau’s survey is not the same instrument as the canvass. Nothing here is a call.