State reference

How does government work in Arizona?

Arizona’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

In effect since: 1911 source

What may surprise you here

Arizona has no lieutenant governor. The secretary of state is next in line if the governor leaves office. source
Superior court judges are chosen differently by county: in Maricopa and Pima counties the governor appoints from a nominating commission, and the other 13 counties hold nonpartisan elections. source

Legislature

Name: Legislature source
Senate: seats: 30 source
Senate: term in years: 2 source
House of Representatives: seats: 60 source
House of Representatives: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: 8 years in each chamber (consecutive) source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: Two consecutive terms source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: joint ticket, starting with the 2026 election; the first lieutenant governor takes office in 2027 source
Attorney general: elected source
Attorney general’s term in years: 4 source
Secretary of state: elected source
Secretary of state’s term in years: 4 source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Appeals source
Main trial court: Superior Court source
How high-court judges reach the bench: mixed: merit selection with retention for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; superior court judges vary by county source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 15 source
Cities and towns: Arizona has 91 municipal governments and no township governments, as of the 2022 Census of Governments. source
Schools: Arizona has 242 independent school districts, and 12 more school systems are run by counties (2022 Census of Governments). source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: County recorders and elections directors share the work source
Primary type: partially open source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: yes source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Katie Hobbs Democratic, in office since January 2, 2023. source

US senators for Arizona
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Ruben Gallego	Democratic	Class 1	January 3, 2025	January 3, 2031
Mark Kelly	Democratic	Class 3	December 2, 2020	January 3, 2029

Members of the House for Arizona
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	David Schweikert	Republican	January 5, 2011
District 2	Elijah Crane	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 3	Yassamin Ansari	Democratic	January 3, 2025
District 4	Greg Stanton	Democratic	January 3, 2019
District 5	Andy Biggs	Republican	January 3, 2017
District 6	Juan Ciscomani	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 7	Adelita S. Grijalva	Democratic	November 12, 2025
District 8	Abraham J. Hamadeh	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 9	Paul A. Gosar	Republican	January 5, 2011

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 1