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Candidate races: Arizona Legislature, District 26

LD26: a deep blue west Phoenix district with a full field and a foregone shape

November 3, 2026 general election. District 26 is entirely in Maricopa County: west Phoenix, including Maryvale and Alhambra area neighborhoods, plus a small part of Glendale, about 237,193 people. It was drawn as a majority Latino district, with 61 percent of residents Hispanic or Latino. Registration in the 2026 general election guide: 40.04 percent Democratic, 18.63 percent Republican, 41.33 percent other. The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission rated the district not competitive and leaning Democratic; azcentral reports a key election vote spread of Democratic plus 39.4 percent, and Sen. Bravo won in 2024 by 66.3 to 33.7 percent. No forecaster publishes a rating for these specific races.

State Senate: Bravo vs. Bishop

The structural fact: both nominees won unopposed primaries, and the general election math is stark. A Republican has not been competitive in this district under the current lines, and Jim Bishop (R) would need to overturn a Democratic advantage of roughly 29 to 39 points depending on the measure used. The race is on the ballot and covered in full below, but no honest page can call it close. The practical question is the margin, and whether down ballot turnout in a high other registration district moves it at all.

Flavio Bravo (Democrat, incumbent)

LD26 state senator since 2023. He was first elected to the state House in 2022, then was selected in 2023 to move to the Senate after Sen. Raquel Teran resigned, and he won a full Senate term in 2024. A fifth generation Arizonan, per azcentral. Outside the Legislature he is a program manager at Cavco Industries for its Homes for Our Own program, which builds manufactured and modular homes. Degrees: bachelor degree in political science from Loyola University, a master degree in migration studies from the University of San Francisco, and an MBA from Arizona State University in 2025. Committee listings retrieved show Finance, Government, Education, and Director Nominations. Active in the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. He won his 2026 Democratic primary unopposed with 7,994 votes.

Record and stated priorities: Bravo says he is seeking another term to continue investing in public schools, protect workers rights, and expand access to health care, per azcentral. His campaign education material argues Arizona ranks near the bottom nationally in per pupil funding, that investing in teachers is essential to the state future, and that budget dollars should stay in the classroom. As a minority party senator, his record is mostly sponsorships, committee work, and votes against the majority program rather than enacted bills of his own, and this page did not verify individual roll call votes for him at name level from azleg.gov, so none are printed as key votes. That limit is stated here rather than papered over with assumed party line votes.

Endorsements, attributed: Greater Phoenix Chamber, Arizona Education Association, and Arizona Nurses Association, per azcentral; also Equality Arizona, Reproductive Freedom for All, and the Arizona Technology Council in their published 2026 lists.

Money: no campaign finance total for Bravo was located in the records retrieved as of October 26, 2026, including the March 2026 See the Money summary for this race, which printed no Bravo table. The absence is reported, not estimated.

Controversies: none of significance found in the sources retrieved.

Jim Bishop (Republican)

Republican challenger, a Glendale resident, running under an "Arizona First" message, per his campaign site and azcentral. He is a Clean Elections participating candidate, per the Citizens Clean Elections Commission general election participating candidate list, which means public financing after qualifying contributions. He won his Republican primary unopposed with 3,153 votes. Beyond the campaign site description of him as a working family man, no detailed occupation or biography was verified in the sources retrieved, and this page does not invent one.
  • Stated priorities, from his campaign and azcentral: an "Arizona first" approach; support small businesses and lower taxes to stimulate the economy; protect the state school voucher (ESA) program; public safety, including supporting law enforcement; safer neighborhoods, stronger schools with accountability and respect for parents, and lower costs for families. His site tagline: "I can't speak for you unless you let me."
  • Money: no itemized campaign finance total located as of October 26, 2026. His funding model is Clean Elections public financing, which is why a traditional donor total is not the right measure; no disbursement total was retrieved.
  • Controversies: none found. The NRA PVF listing for this race grades Bravo F and lists Bishop with no grade, which is a rating, not a controversy, and is noted only as an attributed scorecard data point.

State House: two seats, five candidates

How this race works: vote for up to two. Five names are on the ballot for two seats: Democratic incumbents Cesar Aguilar and Quanta Crews, Republicans Jonathan McKenna and Frank Roberts, and Green Party candidate Hector Gomez. In a district with a Democratic spread near 39 points, the incumbents start as heavy favorites, and the contest among the three challengers is most plausibly for third place and future standing. A challenger takes a seat only by finishing ahead of one incumbent, which no challenger did under these lines in 2024.

Cesar Aguilar (Democrat, incumbent)

LD26 state representative since January 9, 2023, serving alongside Rep. Crews. Born in Phoenix; attended Northern Arizona University. A former political organizer. He served as a Balsz School District governing board member and previously led the Latinx Advisory Board for the Arizona Department of Education, per azcentral.

Record and stated priorities: Aguilar has focused his legislative work on public education, workforce development, and union protections, per azcentral. As a minority party member, that work is sponsorships and advocacy rather than enacted majority bills. No individual roll call votes for Aguilar were verified at name level for this page, so none are printed as key votes. Scorecard data point, attributed: the NRA PVF grades him F in its 2026 Arizona listing.

Money: no clean cycle total for Aguilar was located in the records retrieved as of October 26, 2026. Controversies: none of significance found.

Quanta Crews (Democrat, incumbent)

LD26 state representative since June 7, 2023. She was appointed by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on June 5, 2023, by a 4 to 0 vote, to fill the House vacancy created when Flavio Bravo moved to the Senate; she then won election in 2024. A minister and a real estate appraiser who previously worked as a property tax appraiser for county and state government. Born in Wayne County, Michigan. Bachelor degree from Grand Canyon University in history and behavioral science. She served as minority co whip in the most recent session, per azcentral. Church affiliation is reported two ways in the sources retrieved, Historic Tanner Chapel and Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church; see the verification notes.

Record and stated priorities: Crews is running on a commitment to working families, prioritizing affordability and serving people who rely on public services, per azcentral. Her sponsorship history in secondary listings includes bills on public records for incarceration contractors, inmate telephone services, firearm background checks, and tax exemptions for firearm storage devices; those listings were not verified bill by bill on azleg.gov for this page and are presented as attributed summary, not as verified votes. No individual roll call votes are printed for her for the same reason as Aguilar above.

Money: no clean cycle total located as of October 26, 2026. Controversies: none of significance found. Her route to office, appointment before election, was lawful under the vacancy process and was itself a contested selection, with former Rep. Christian Solorio among those passed over; that is reported as history, not scandal.

Jonathan McKenna (Republican)

Republican challenger and a Clean Elections participating candidate, per the Citizens Clean Elections Commission list. No occupation, biography, or campaign website content was verified in the sources retrieved beyond his azcentral responses summarized below.
  • Stated priorities, per azcentral: he argues the Democratic incumbents have had time to deliver results and have not; he would "end mass surveillance" by opposing expansion of Flock camera systems, and tackle crime with increased police enforcement.
  • Money: no total located; Clean Elections participating candidate, with no disbursement figure retrieved. Controversies: none found.

Frank Roberts (Republican)

Republican challenger and a Clean Elections participating candidate, per the Citizens Clean Elections Commission list. A real estate investor and businessman who owns a wellness company that sells progesterone and hormone balance creams, per azcentral.
  • Stated priorities, per azcentral: a fiscally conservative approach to government and public safety as a priority.
  • Money: no total located; Clean Elections participating candidate, with no disbursement figure retrieved. The NRA PVF lists him as AQ, its rating for a candidate who answered its questionnaire in a pro gun rights way without a voting record. Controversies: none found in the sources retrieved. His wellness business is stated as his occupation, without further verified detail, and nothing about it is embellished here.

Hector Gomez (Green)

Green Party candidate for the House in LD26, listed on the general election ballot in the 2026 guide and on Vote411, and listed as a Clean Elections participating candidate in the Citizens Clean Elections Commission list. He also appears in GoodParty.org candidate listings as a Green candidate who took its pledge.

This entry is short because the public record retrieved is thin, and inventing a platform would be worse than admitting it. As of October 26, 2026, our research found no campaign website, no stated priorities in the azcentral legislature guide, no news coverage, and no campaign finance total for Gomez. He participated in the Clean Elections LD26 debate invitation list for August 28, 2026. If you are an LD26 voter who wants a protest or third party option in the House race, his name is verifiably on your ballot; what he would do in office is, on the record retrieved, unstated.

Verification notes

  • Key votes: none are printed for any LD26 candidate. No name level roll call votes were verified from azleg.gov or a name level source in the research for this page, and party line votes were deliberately not assumed for incumbents in the minority, where sponsorship and stated priorities are the verifiable record.
  • Money is the weakest category on this page. No cycle totals were located for Bravo, Bishop, Aguilar, Crews, McKenna, Roberts, or Gomez. Four of the seven candidates are Clean Elections participating candidates per the Commission list (Bishop, McKenna, Roberts, Gomez), which changes what a missing donor total means; their public financing disbursements were not retrieved.
  • Crews church affiliation conflict preserved rather than resolved: Wikipedia and SenGov say Historic Tanner Chapel (AME) in Phoenix; an Arizona Republic account of her appointment carried in the Rose Law Group Reporter says Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church. Both cannot be resolved from the sources retrieved.
  • Biographical depth for Bishop, McKenna, Roberts, and Gomez is limited to the sources cited in their entries. Where a campaign provided only slogans, the page prints slogans attributed as such.
  • Registration figures are from the 2026 Arizona General Election Guide. An older district page lists 39.97 percent Democratic and 18.99 percent Republican; the guide figures are the current cycle figures and are the ones printed.

How to vote without getting your ballot rejected

  • Mail it by Tuesday, October 27, 2026. After that day, do not mail it: use a drop box or a vote center instead.
  • It must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. Postmarks do not count.
  • Sign and date the affidavit envelope, and write a current phone number on it.
  • For write-ins: only votes for officially filed write-in candidates are counted. Write the name exactly and fill the oval.
  • Leaving any item blank is allowed. It does not affect the rest of your ballot.

Sources

Ballot Math: analysis only, no endorsements. Same template as every race on this site: offices and record, key votes, money with dates, stated priorities, controversies with responses, and gaps admitted in the open.