Candidate Handbooks now available for 2026 Oro Valley Town Council elections

CONTACT: Jeffery Hidalgo
Public Information Officer
desk: 520-229-4772
cell: 520-549-9953
jhidalgo@orovalleyaz.gov

ORO VALLEY, Ariz. (Nov. 3, 2025) – Any qualified Oro Valley resident interested in running for Town Council in 2026 may now make an appointment with the Town Clerk to pick up a Candidate Handbook in the Town Clerk’s Office at Town Hall, 11000 N. La Cañada Drive.

To make an appointment with the Town Clerk, please email Mike Standish at mstandish@orovalleyaz.gov or call 520-229-4700.

Three Council seats and one Mayoral seat will be filled in 2026. A candidate for Council must be a qualified elector at the time of election, be 18 years of age or older, and have resided in Oro Valley for at least one year preceding the election.

The newly elected members will assume the duties of office after the vote has been canvassed by Council and are typically sworn in at the next regularly scheduled Council meeting following the General Election held on November 3, 2026.

Securing the required number of signatures on a nomination petition and filing nomination papers enables a resident to run as a candidate in the Primary Election, which will be held August 4, 2026. The number of signatures required is at least 525 and not more than 1,050.

Candidates may turn in nomination papers from 8 a.m. on March 9, 2026, to 5 p.m. on April 6, 2026.