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Elections · U.S. House · Arizona

2026 Arizona House race, District 7

Adelita Grijalva (Democrat) and Daniel Butierez (Republican) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Arizona District 7, as recorded September 21, 2026.

The November ballot

Grijalva
$2.3M
Butierez
$224K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Official candidate list: Arizona Secretary of State. Not a prediction.

The seat

Adelita Grijalva

Democrat · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 55

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Arizona

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 29 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 59,304 votes

  • Adelita Grijalva Won: Unopposed 59,304

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Arizona Secretary of State official primary canvass. Certified August 6, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$2.5M
Outside money
$531K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Grijalva$385K
Opposing Grijalva$33K
Supporting Butierez-
Opposing Butierez-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $112K of the race's $531K was spent on candidates not listed here.

Where each candidate's money comes from

45%$1MSmall donors$17K8%
36%$825KLarge donors$23K10%
19%$436KPACs$2K<1%
--Self-funding$175K78%
<1%$8.3KOther$7.3K3%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 10 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Also filed for this seat

3 filed

Not on the November ballot

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

Ballot status not confirmed

None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.

Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.

The district

Census context
People
808K
Median household income
$60K
Unemployment
6.6%
Living below the poverty line
19.0%
Without health insurance
13.7%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

How this seat voted last time

D+40 in 2025

  • Adelita Grijalva Won: 68.9%
  • Daniel Butierez: 29.4%

101,776 votes for candidates. It was a special election for the rest of the term, held September 23, 2025. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 1.7%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Official returns from the Arizona Secretary of State's certified canvass.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between July 26, 2025 and July 1, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.