Next month, Tucson holds partisan primaries for city office. This year, no one’s name is on the Republican primary ballot, and only one candidate is on the Democratic primary ballot. Yet there are two Greens running in the Green Party primary, Mary DeCamp and Dave Croteau. This story says that the Green Party deliberately set up a primary contest to attract more attention for the party, and that the two candidates are supportive of each other.

The Republican Party may yet have a nominee, if any Republican write-in candidate in that party’s primary can poll enough votes to get the Republican nomination.

Tucson is the only city in Arizona with partisan city elections. In 2009 the legislature passed a bill, requiring all cities to use non-partisan elections. However, the State Court of Appeals then ruled that the law violates the Arizona constitution, and that Tucson may retain partisan elections if it wishes. The state government has appealed that ruling to the State Supreme Court, which will probably say next month whether it will hear the state’s appeal.