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How we research: the LiberalMind standard — every district gets the same pass: official rosters first, filings second, statements and coverage third — and where the public record runs dry we print the gap instead of filling it. Race roster: Pinal County School Office "2026 Election Candidate Filing Status" panel (official), read October 25, 2026; seat history from the Pinal County School Office governing-board listing — grade: official.

The race

There is no Eloy Elementary School District governing-board election on November 3, 2026 — and this article exists so that fact, and who holds the seats instead, is on the record. Eloy ESD No. 11 had three board seats expiring December 31, 2026, held by Sonnette Federico, Fansy Calvin and Maggie Whatley (per the county school office's board listing). Under Arizona's school-election rules, when the filed candidates do not exceed the seats to be filled, the election is cancelled and the filers are deemed elected. The Pinal County School Office's candidate filing-status panel marks this district's election "CXL ELECTION" — cancelled. Consistently, Eloy ESD does not appear as a board race on the official Citizens Clean Elections Commission Pinal County general-election candidate list. No ballots will be cast for these seats because no contest exists to cast them in.

Who takes the seats

The filing panel lists three filers for the three four-year seats, and they are the same three people whose terms were expiring:

All three are incumbents returning without opposition. Nothing in the record we worked suggests anything but an orderly, uncontested re-election by filing — the most common outcome in Arizona's small-district school elections, and one voters are entitled to see recorded rather than discover by absence.

Record gaps

This district's roster was, until October 25, one of the genuinely dark corners of the Pinal County ballot: the county school office published a board listing naming the seats and their expiring holders, but no filed-candidate list for Eloy ESD was reachable in any source we worked — GoodParty carried no 2026 filings for the district, and the school office's filing-status panel does not return its data to a text fetch (it is script-driven). The names above come from a live-browser reading of that panel on October 25, 2026, and they close the gap: who filed, for which seats, and with what result. What remains genuinely unpublished — and we do not pretend otherwise — is any campaign statement or platform from the three members; an uncontested deemed election generates none, and none exists to print.

OUR CALL

No call — there is no election to call. Eloy ESD's governing-board election was cancelled; the three filers named above take their seats as deemed elected under Arizona law. We endorse where voters choose; here the choice was made by filings, and our job is to record it accurately, which is what this article does.

This article is part of our complete Election 2026 coverage — every race, researched the same way. Read the full breakdown on our website.

Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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