The Navajo Nation presidential election of 2010 was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Incumbent Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. was term-limited yet sought a third consecutive term, the Navajo Nation Supreme Court declined a third term for Shirley. This was the first Navajo Nation election in which both presidential candidates, Lovejoy and Shelly, are residents of the Eastern part of the Navajo Nation. 2010 also marked the first time that a woman earned the most votes in the Navajo presidential primary.