---
title: "Pima County Finishes Count as Tucson Zoo Tax Passes"
url: https://www.heretucson.com/2026/11/11/pima-county-finishes-counting-ballots-tucson-zoo-tax-passes/
date: 2026-11-11T15:59:57-07:00
modified: 2026-11-11T15:59:57-07:00
author: "Ben Lang"
categories: ["Politics"]
site: "HERE Tucson"
attribution: "HERE Tucson"
---

# Pima County Finishes Count as Tucson Zoo Tax Passes

> TUCSON, Ariz. — Pima County election workers finished tallying the last ballots from the Nov. 3 general election on Tuesday, wrapping up the count and confirming the outcomes of every local contest and ballot measure around Tucson. The final tabulation did not flip any local result. Altogether the county tallied 413,253 voters, a share equal

*Source: [HERE Tucson](https://www.heretucson.com/2026/11/11/pima-county-finishes-counting-ballots-tucson-zoo-tax-passes/) — November 11, 2026 by Ben Lang*

TUCSON, Ariz. — Pima County election workers finished tallying the last ballots from the Nov. 3 general election on Tuesday, wrapping up the count and confirming the outcomes of every local contest and ballot measure around Tucson. The final tabulation did not flip any local result.

Altogether the county tallied 413,253 voters, a share equal to almost 63 percent of its 657,885 registered voters. Early voting dominated: 349,242 people, about 85 percent, cast an early ballot, while 61,827 voters used one of 126 county voting centers on Election Day and 2,184 submitted provisional ballots.

Tucson voters renewed the one-tenth-of-a-cent sales tax that supports Reid Park Zoo. Proposition 422 passed with 73 percent approval, drawing 118,906 yes votes to 44,249 no votes. Voters also rejected a 25-year franchise agreement with Tucson Electric Power. Proposition 421 failed 57 percent to 43 percent, with 90,811 votes against and 69,098 in favor.

Education measures fared well across Southern Arizona. Pima Community College’s bond passed with 52 percent, 196,240 yes votes to 182,984 no, and the Pima Joint Technical Education District bond also passed with 52 percent. Vail and Tanque Verde school districts won their overrides with 65 percent and 56 percent. The closest race of the election was in Sahuarita, where the school district’s Proposition 428 passed by only 53 votes, 5,732 to 5,679. County Proposition 425, which sets a new spending limit for Pima County budgets, passed with 51 percent, a margin of 5,191 votes. Beyond Tucson, Oro Valley voters backed the town’s refreshed general plan with 79 percent, and a bond package for the Northwest Fire District won 71 percent.

In the one county-level race noted in the final results, Supervisor Andres Cano won re-election to the Board of Supervisors in District 5 with about 80 percent of the vote, receiving 48,058 votes to Republican Jeff Rhodes’ 12,177. South Tucson voters sent Cesar Aguirre and Eduardo Baca to the City Council.

Counting took as long as it did in part because of so-called late early ballots, which arrive just before or on Election Day and require staff to compare signatures with those on file. A new state law let voters show identification at a voting center so ballots could go straight to tabulation. Of voters who dropped off ballots, 17,299 used the ID check and 16,318 went through signature verification.