A.R.S. § 19-201: Officer Recall Petitions
Officers subject to recall; number of petitioners
How does a recall election work in Arizona?
In Arizona, any public officer in an elective office, whether chosen by election, appointment, or retention, can be recalled by the qualified voters of the district that elects that office, even if that district is the whole state. To demand a recall, petitioners generally need signatures equal to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for that office at the last preceding general election, divided by the number of offices being filled. If the officer was appointed or won because an election was canceled for lack of opposing candidates, the petition instead needs signatures equal to at least ten percent of the active registered voters in the officer's jurisdiction or district as of the last general election.
Full statute text
Official text last checked against azleg.gov:
19-201. Officers subject to recall; number of petitioners
A. Every public officer holding an elective office, either by election, appointment or retention, is subject to recall from such office by the qualified electors of the electoral district from which candidates are elected to that office. Such electoral district may include the whole state. A number of qualified electors equaling twenty-five percent of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all the candidates for the office held by the officer, even if the officer was not elected at that election, divided by the number of offices that were being filled at that election, by recall petition, may demand the officer's recall. For a public officer elected at a nonpartisan election, the last preceding general election is the last preceding election at which the public officer who is the subject of the recall was declared elected.
B. In the case of a public officer holding office in a newly created division or district of an elective office, either by election or appointment, a number of qualified electors equaling twenty-five percent of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all those who were candidates for other divisions or districts of the same office held by the officer in that county or city divided by the number of offices that were being filled at that election, by recall petition, may demand the officer's recall.
C. If the elective officer to be recalled was appointed to the office or was deemed elected after an election was canceled due to the absence of opposing candidates as provided in section 15-424, 15-1442, 16-822, 48-802, 48-1012, 48-1208, 48-1404, 48-1908, 48-2010, 48-2107 or 48-2208, the recall petition must be signed by the number of qualified electors that is equal to at least ten percent of the number of active registered voters in the jurisdiction or district represented by that elective officer as determined on the date of the last general election.
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