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The race

Factual off-cycle finish: the Salt River Project held its 2026 election on April 7, 2026 — there is no SRP contest on the November 3, 2026 ballot, and SRP does not elect again until 2028. SRP — the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association (the "Association," for water) and the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (the "District," for power) — elects its president, vice president, board members, and council members in biennial April elections, by acreage-weighted voting among eligible landowners in its territory. The April 7, 2026 results were made official at the canvass on April 13, 2026, and the winners took office May 4–5, 2026, per SRP's official media release. The skeleton for this article listed 22 seats, matching the District-wide total in SRP's own release (District: 22 seats filled; Association: 20).

The results

Leadership (both bodies): President Chris Dobson and Vice President Barry Paceley — each elected for both the District and the Association. Official District vote totals show Dobson with 5,441.55 acreage votes over Sandra Kennedy's 4,019.00, and Paceley with 4,567.88 over Casey Clowes (3,550.81) and Keith Woods (1,309.42).

Association Board: District 2, Paul Rovey (incumbent); District 4, Leslie C. Williams (incumbent); District 6, Ken Clark; District 8, Melissa Harlan; District 10, Mark Pace (incumbent).

District Board: District 2, Rovey; District 4, Lupe Conchas; District 6, Clark; District 8, Harlan; District 10, Pace; At-Large Seat 12, Krista H. O'Brien (incumbent); At-Large Seat 14, Kathy L. Mohr-Almeida (incumbent). Note the District 4 split, the kind of detail acreage voting produces: Williams won the Association seat, while Conchas won the District seat with 77.26 votes to Williams's 53.48 in the official District summary. Other official totals: O'Brien 23,496 over Rusty Kennedy 12,251; Mohr-Almeida 23,165 over Kelly Cooper 12,581; Harlan 902.92 over Nina Mullins 702.05; Clark 783.45 over Nicholas J. Vanderwey 529.60.

Council (the same winners for both bodies): District 2 — Jerry E. Geiger, T. Suzanne Naylor, Bill Sheely (all incumbents); District 4 — M. Brandon Brooks, Ian Rakow, Michael G. Rakow (incumbents); District 6 — Allison Gullick, Sara Travise, John Travise; District 8 — Regina Gutierrez, Nicole Brown, Randy J. Miller; District 10 — Dave B. Lamoreaux, Eric M. Pedersen, William "Billy" P. Schrader III (incumbents).

The context, as sourced

azcentral and AZFamily's April 2026 coverage frames the election as a contest between a Turning Point Action-backed slate (Dobson and allies) and a clean-energy slate backed by groups including the Jane Fonda Climate PAC, fought over solar policy, rates, and the pace of SRP's energy transition. Two structural facts from that coverage belong in the permanent record: acreage-based voting structurally advantages incumbents and large landowners — a 1903-era franchise design that is SRP's law, stated here as fact, not editorial — and the clean-energy bloc grew to 8 of 30 council seats (from 4) even as the traditional leadership kept 6 of the 10 District (water/power) board seats. Both things are true; the April electorate moved the council and kept the board.

Pros and cons

This is a decided, off-cycle election reported factually, so the ledger is brief and even-handed: the Dobson/Paceley leadership — Pro: won both bodies outright on official totals, with clear margins in the contested at-large races for their allies (O'Brien and Mohr-Almeida each roughly doubling their challengers). Con: they govern under a franchise structure whose acreage weighting their critics — now seated as a larger council minority — will keep litigating in public. The clean-energy slate — Pro: doubled its council presence to 8 of 30, the trajectory fact of the election. Con: trajectory is not control; the District board that sets rates and generation policy stayed 6-of-10 with the traditional leadership.

OUR CALL

Our call: no call — off-cycle and decided April 7, 2026; recorded for the permanent record. Dobson and Paceley lead both SRP bodies; the boards and councils above hold the seats until the 2028 election. November 3 voters have no SRP decision. What this article owes the record is accuracy — official winners, official totals, official dates — and that is what it prints.

For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage 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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