Highlights
- Nick Mansour held a double-digit lead over Republican Elijah Norton as of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Arizona state treasurer race.
- A Mansour win would mark the first Democratic treasurer in Arizona since Bob Kennedy left office in 1967.
- Mansour, former CEO of the Arizona College of Nursing, has focused his campaign on the state's $11 billion education endowment fund.
- Republican Norton, former treasurer of the Arizona Republican Party, won his July primary and ran on a fiscal-conservatism platform.
Democrat Nick Mansour held a double-digit lead over Republican Elijah Norton in the Arizona state treasurer race as of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Arizona's Family, with KJZZ and the Arizona Capitol Times independently confirming the early margin.
A Mansour victory would end a Republican hold on the office stretching back to 1967. Arizona has not had a Democratic state treasurer since Bob Kennedy, who served between 1965 and 1967.
Mansour is an entrepreneur and former CEO of the Arizona College of Nursing. He ran unopposed in the primary. The treasurer's office oversees what Mansour described on election night as an $11 billion education endowment fund. "We're not managing it well today," he said. "It's a tax freeway for us to invest more in education. We're not investing enough today."
The seat opened because Republican incumbent Kimberly Yee is running for Arizona superintendent of public instruction.
Norton, the former treasurer of the Arizona Republican Party, beat Katherine Haley in the July primary. He has described himself as a conservative focused on protecting taxpayers and safeguarding public dollars. During the primary, Norton pledged to fire every political appointee currently in office and divest state funds from companies with diversity, equity and inclusion policies. In late September, he told Arizona's Family he would "invest in companies that are making profit, that are producing the best returns for Arizonans."
Final canvass results are expected in the days following election night as remaining ballots are counted.
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- AZ Family (3TV/CBS5) retrieved 04/11/2026 06:11
- kjzz.org retrieved 04/11/2026 06:11
- azcapitoltimes.com retrieved 04/11/2026 06:11
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