Pima County Supervisors: Jennifer "Jen" Allen leads in District 3

Democrat Jennifer "Jen" Allen is leading in the Pima County District 3 supervisor race, initial election results show.

In the county's first release of election results about 8 p.m.,  Allen had about 58.7% of vote counted so far. Republican Janet "JL" Wittenbraker had 38.3% of the vote. Independent Iman-Utopia Layjou Bah had a little over 3%.

Results so far come from early ballots and were released Tuesday night by the Pima County Elections Department via the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office’s results page.

Allen, the former executive director for ACLU of Arizona, was also the founding executive director for the Border Action Network. If elected, Allen told the Star, one of her first priorities will be to help develop and contribute to long-term planning, such as the county’s long-range development plan Pima Prospers and its climate action plan, as well as ensuring her future office sets its own four-year plan. A top priority would be a robust outreach campaign to residents, she said.

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Allen campaigned on a variety of issues, including keeping open access for abortion and reproductive healthcare, addressing the "resource, service, and infrastructure needs of Pima County," as well as decreasing the county's "over-reliance on incarceration" and seeking alternatives to the prospect of building a new Pima County jail.

Wittenbraker, previously to the Star, said she was running because she isn’t comfortable “with how my local government is being run.” She said local government has gotten too big and is “providing services that are that are not mandated by the state statute” despite insignificant improvements in the community.