---
type: Person
title: "Lela Alston"
description: "AZ Senate District 5 — AZ State Senate District 5"
role: "AZ Senate District 5"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "AZ"
district: "AZ State Senate District 5"
represents: "us/states/az/districts/senate/5"
tenure:
  start: "2023-01-09"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "6741be9e-5efd-4e1b-8e94-e664ad90f7be"
  office: "18f2cc7f-787a-499f-82f8-3f025572fa0c"
  tenure: "e44712bf-8e3a-4571-af49-7c3d2a99e608"
  jurisdiction: "b39c130a-777e-487c-a395-51d22c766118"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, az]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Lela Alston

Current AZ Senate District 5 (AZ State Senate District 5).

Represents [AZ State Senate District 5](/us/states/az/districts/senate/5.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).