Tucson Will Wait For Monday To Release Full 2021 Election Results

TUCSON, AZ — Ballots already counted overwhelmingly favored a $15 minimum wage in Tucson via Proposition 206, but Tucson won't release its full election results until Monday, the city announced.

There are still 16,500 ballots left to be counted.

Unofficial results showed only 158 more yes votes than no votes for Tucson's Proposition 410, which would give the mayor and city council members raises.

The ballots that haven't been counted were the ones received on Election Day at Tucson's seven voting locations, the Pima County Recorder's Office drop box or were delivered by mail on Election Day, the city said in a news release.

Proposition 206 will increase Tucson's minimum wage to $13 per hour starting in April and continue incremental increases until reaching $15 per hour in 2025.

Unofficial totals released by the Tucson City Clerk Tuesday evening show 44,042 votes in favor of Proposition 206 and 23,759 votes against it.

Unofficial totals show that Proposition 410 garnered 33,898 yes votes and 33,740 no votes.

Approval of Proposition 410 would mean that the mayor's salary would increase from $42,000 to $54,000 per year. The salaries of Tucson City Council Member would increase from $24,000 to $36,000 per year.

There were three Tucson City Council seats up for election Tuesday.

Running for the Ward 3 seat were Democrat Kevin Dahl, Independent Lucy Libosha and Republican Alan Harwell, Jr.

In the race for Ward 5 were incumbent Democrat Richard Fimbres write-in Republican candidate Shelley Cross.

Running for Ward 6 were incumbent Democrat Steve Kozachik and Independent Val Romero.

Below are the unofficial totals in the three City Council races:

Ward 3

Dahl: 42,317

Harwell: 20,136

Libosha: 8,852

Ward 5

Fimbres: 52,194

Cross: 1,761

Ward 6

Kozachik: 47,240

Romero: 21,741