US Midterms 2026
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Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a 2025 special election for Arizona's 7th congressional district after the death of her father, Raúl Grijalva, seeks a full term in 2026 against Republican Daniel Butierez.
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ScottRep. Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) is hosting a roundtable in Tucson on Oct 16, 2026, to push for affordable care and paid family/medical leave.
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Adelita Grijalva is a native of Tucson, Arizona, the granddaughter of a bracero who came to the United States from Mexico in 1945 and the eldest daughter of Raúl Grijalva, who represented the 7th district from 2003 until his death in 2025.
She graduated from Pueblo High School in 1989 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Arizona in 1995. For 25 years she directed Pima County Teen Court, a nonprofit juvenile diversion program.
She lives in Tucson with her husband, Sol Gómez, a librarian, and their three children.
Grijalva was elected to the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board in 2002, the youngest woman ever elected to it, and served on the board until 2022. In 2012 she was the only board member who voted against shutting down the district's Mexican American Studies classes.
She won a seat on the Pima County Board of Supervisors for District 5 in 2020 with 73.60% of the vote, became the board's first Latina chair in 2023, and resigned effective April 4, 2025, under Arizona's resign-to-run law.
After her father's death, Grijalva won the Democratic primary for the special election on July 15, 2025, defeating Deja Foxx, Daniel Hernández Jr. and two other candidates, and on September 23, 2025, she defeated Republican Daniel Butierez by a 2 to 1 margin, becoming the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress.
Speaker Mike Johnson delayed her swearing-in during the 2025 federal government shutdown, and she was sworn in on November 12, 2025, after a seven-week delay, the longest in congressional history. She serves on the Committee on Education and Workforce and the Committee on Natural Resources.
Arizona's 7th district is majority-Hispanic and covers most of the Mexico-United States border in Arizona, including parts of Tucson and Yuma.
Grijalva holds the seat after winning 68.9% of the vote in the special election to finish the term of her father, who died in office on March 13, 2025, and on September 24, 2025, she announced that she would run for a full term.
She was unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary, receiving 59,304 votes. In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Republican Daniel Butierez, a painting contractor who was his party's nominee for the district in 2024 and 2025.
