Press Release

City Election Day is Tuesday

Date:

08/28/2009 (Last updated: 08/30/2009)

Summary:

The City of Yuma primary election is Tuesday, Sept. 1. Voters will elect or narrow the field of candidates for the offices of Mayor and three seats on the City Council.

Contact:

Dave NashPublic Affairs CoordinatorPublic Affairs
 

Yuma, Arizona - The City of Yuma primary election is Tuesday, Sept. 1. Voters will elect or narrow the field of candidates for the offices of Mayor and three seats on the City Council. The Presiding Municipal Court Judge is running unopposed.

Polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Each voter is responsible for knowing his or her polling place, which is listed in the sample ballot that was mailed to all registered voters within the city limits. Those places may have changed since previous elections. Anyone with additional election-related questions may call the Yuma County Recorder's Office at 373-6034. 

Any voter who is still in possession of an early ballot must turn it in to either the Yuma County Recorder's Office, 410 S. Maiden Lane, or to a polling place by 7 p.m. Tuesday or it will not be counted.

Complete election results may be viewed on Time Warner Cable channels City 73 and Ciudad 72 or on the City's web site, www.YumaAz.gov/election. Preliminary results will be released no earlier than 8 p.m. Tuesday, per state law.

Council Chambers will be open at City Hall, One City Plaza (3rd Street between 1st and Madison avenues) beginning 7:30 p.m. for those who wish to see the results there.

Results for this election will be tabulated and calculated as they have been for past City primary elections, meaning that percentages will reflect a number relating to the total number of ballots cast, rather than a percentage of the total number of votes cast. This is because Yuma City Council seats are considered at-large, and each ballot may contain up to three votes for members of the City Council.

Should any candidate accumulate votes on 50 percent plus one of the total number of ballots cast, that candidate will be elected to office and will not participate in the November general election. 

The top two finishers per remaining open seat will move on to the general election on Nov. 3.  That means that at least three mayoral candidates and at least two council candidates will be eliminated as a result of the final tally of primary election ballots.

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