Miranda Schubert
Miranda Schubert (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Tucson City Council to represent Ward 6 in Arizona. She won in the general election on November 4, 2025.
Biography
Miranda Schubert was born in Sacramento, California. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California in 2009.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Tucson, Arizona (2025)
General election
General election for Tucson City Council Ward 6
Miranda Schubert defeated Jay Tolkoff in the general election for Tucson City Council Ward 6 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Miranda Schubert (D) | 67.2 | 46,413 |
 | Jay Tolkoff (R)  | 32.8 | 22,651 | |
| Total votes: 69,064 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6
Miranda Schubert defeated Leighton Rockafellow Jr. and James Sinex in the Democratic primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6 on August 5, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Miranda Schubert | 65.7 | 6,376 |
 | Leighton Rockafellow Jr. | 30.2 | 2,931 | |
 | James Sinex | 3.8 | 365 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 27 | ||
| Total votes: 9,699 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Theresa Riel (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6
Jay Tolkoff advanced from the Republican primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6 on August 5, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Tolkoff | 96.4 | 1,622 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.6 | 61 | ||
| Total votes: 1,683 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Schubert in this election.
2021
See also: City elections in Tucson, Arizona (2021)
General election
General election for Tucson City Council Ward 6
Incumbent Steve Kozachik defeated Val Romero in the general election for Tucson City Council Ward 6 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steve Kozachik (D) | 66.0 | 56,259 |
 | Val Romero (Independent) | 33.4 | 28,446 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 581 | ||
| Total votes: 85,286 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6
Incumbent Steve Kozachik defeated Miranda Schubert and Andres Portela in the Democratic primary for Tucson City Council Ward 6 on August 3, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steve Kozachik | 56.0 | 5,695 |
| Miranda Schubert | 28.4 | 2,885 | |
 | Andres Portela | 15.3 | 1,557 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 31 | ||
| Total votes: 10,168 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
To view Schubert's endorsements in the 2021 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Miranda Schubert did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.
2021
Video for Ballotpedia
| Video submitted to Ballotpedia Released March 3, 2021 |
Miranda Schubert completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Schubert's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
When I moved to Tucson, I had to figure out how to do a lot with a little. To get around town, I relied on the City’s bus system, my bicycle, and feet. Depending on where I was renting, I would bike around 60 miles a week between commuting to work, going to roller derby practice, and grocery shopping.
My fiance, Amanda, was born and raised in Tucson. We have two cats, Mika and Snappy. We rent a small place in Armory Park. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s our little slice of Sonoran paradise that allows us to bike or walk to most of our destinations. We are deeply invested in the Tucson community.
For nearly five years, I have elevated Tucson’s artists, activists, and leaders as a DJ for KXCI and as the creator and host of Ladytowne, a live feminist talk show. It has been a joy to meet and learn from so many talented local people.
As a staff member at the University of Arizona, I’m deeply involved with the United Campus Workers of Arizona, Local 7065. I joined the union so that I can stand in solidarity with fellow workers across the city and campus community during this pandemic.
- We are facing the public health crisis of racism, a climate emergency, and a growing eviction tsunami, all of which are the result of not addressing root causes on a systemic level. We now find ourselves at an inflection point: uphold the status quo or rebuild our systems to be more equitable and just. As a community organizer, union sister, educator, and a queer, Asian American woman, I have been disrupting the status quo my whole life.
- Public safety is bigger than protecting people from imminent harm; it’s about creating conditions where people are not living in the shadows of hunger, houselessness, or despair. I want to break down the notion that public safety is about police budgets and police budgets only.
- Elected officials are public servants. Running for office isn’t about being a special person. It’s about asking people to trust you and then earning that trust every day.
- Community-centered development: One of my goals for Tucson is for everyone to have equitable access (without relying on a car) to locally owned businesses and services right in their neighborhoods. This type of community-centered development will lead to more vibrant neighborhoods, help our local economy thrive, and improve our health and the health of our environment.
- Climate change: We need to address the impact climate change is already having on residents in everything from higher utility bills to increased flooding to protecting the unhoused in times of extreme heat.
- Public safety: We need to make our public safety less reactive and more proactive by addressing the root causes of the problem and not just the symptoms. There is often a lot of focus on the police and the expectation that they make our community safe. However, we know that by the time the police are involved something has already gone wrong.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 26, 2021
| |||||||||
