The annual Anchorage municipal election ended at 8 pm on Tuesday.
Here are the early results from the Division of Elections from the 8:30 pm release, which is the last of the evening. These results are not final. Ballots will keep coming in throughout the week.
​Anchorage Assembly Candidates​
District 1 – Seat ​B – North Anchorage
Danger, Nick​ – 224Scout, Sydney​ – 2,212Milette, Justin​ – 1,328Powers, Max​ – 151
​District 2 – Seat C – Chugiak, Eagle River, JBER
Handeland, Donald – 3.372Walker, Kyle​ – 2,713
District 3 – Seat E​ – West Anchorage
Flynn, Brian​ – 3,588
Brawley, Anna​​ – 4,586
​District 4 – Seat G – Midtown Anchorage​
Donley, Dave​ – 3,196
Winston, Kim​ – 255
Park, Janice​ – 3,107
​District 5 – S​eat ​I –Â
Martinez, George​ – 3,364
Anderson, Cody – 2,454
District 6 – Seat K – South Anchorage, Girdwood, Turnagain Arm​
Sharp, Janelle Anausuk​ – 1,201
Vergason, Bruce​ – 4,025
Johnson, Zac​ – 4,911
Anchorage School Board Cand​idates​
School Board – Seat D
Gibbons, Sharon​ – 12,812
15 thoughts on “Anchorage early election outcomes”
Dave Donley will be the smartest guy on the Assembly. He already had that title at the School Board.
Eagleexit cannot happen soon enough
Amen
I expected this outcome. I was right beside District 2 that Dave Donley would be the only other candidate not in the Leftist camp. He has to thank Kim Winston because she peeled 200 votes away from Janice park. The race would been very close. The other candidates they shouldn’t be disheartened. They did very well all in the double digits following close behind. They and others just need to work over their districts and councils. That’s where change of communities begins is the councils.
Changing elections takes more than winning elections. Change is slow. Candidates and the voters voting for those more fiscal conservative candidate must keep their sleeves rolled up. Its not the time to give up, give in, and move out. Unless one is so toxic they are a complainer and hopeless. Then go ahead you move out. Where is one going to go in Alaska anyway? If one went to Matsu or Kenai then you eventually be facing the same battle Anchorage and Fairbanks are facing today. So the only option is to keep one’s sleeves rolled up, attending and leading one’s community council, get to know you neighbors of your districts especially those neighbors who voted for the fiscal conservative candidate, find the inactive voters who would vote for fiscal conservatives, and make sure there is at least one challenger in your district challenging the Democrat incumbent because Legislature races are coming up next. Then after legislature races over you still have to keep your sleeves rolled up and working over your districts because guess what right after Nov election of the legislature, the community councils will be deciding again in January their council officers.
Change doesn’t happen because YOU want it to happen or because you pray and expect God to be a genie and make it happen. Although miracles are possible with God. Sometimes he requires you to walk six times quietly around a city before on the seventh walk and blowing the trumpet before the city walls come crashing down just like Jericho.
You got to do the work out of Faith before seeing.
Until conservatives wake up and change the election date from April to November, they will almost always lose. Normal people are too busy to vote and the union phone banks and Muni employees always vote in this election. Wasilla changed their dates. If you don’t change the date, this will never change.
There was an increase in more Republicans, Conservatives, Christians, and others who voted for a more fiscal restrained candidate then other years.
I think for Alaskans it really doesn’t matter if the election is in Fall-Winter or Spring because there still a low voter turn out in Fall-Winter.
Having it in spring is as much as an excuse for those on the Right as what indigenous peoples do to be late excusing their attendance issues and reliability issues calling it they are on Indian time so deal with their tardiness.
Thr game is vote in spring so play the rules.
I struggle to understand how voters can continue to hand the ASD money they obviously don’t need. And I struggle with the notion of a silent majority that can’t get off their F-ing Asses and VOTE! Even when the ballot is handed to them, they can’t even lift a pencil to fill out the NO option of these expenditures.
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Being from the Interior, I’ve always considered Los Anchorage to be the cloaca of the State of Alaska. Residents here have proven once again that they are the orifice through which all sewage flows.
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And Tina: I don’t share your optimism. I’m 36 years here in LA and it simply continues to worsen over time; I’m done with it!
Like I said Change doesn’t happen because You want it to happen. By human nature we are so incredulous and selfish and impatient.
A Change takes a lot of work. But in these generations (boomers, GenX, Millennials) who grown up in the Divorce culture, they don’t really know what is hard work, they grown up to accept walking out first that walking out is their first choice and start over somewhere else or with someone else in optimism life will be better. This time they will get it right.
You can’t be so focused on the flaws and lose focus on where you are needed and what you can do for working out changes
To let you know our Anchorage Republican groups and their voters hadn’t really got going especially where their involvement is needed through out the years at their neighborhood councils. They put on a good show during campaigns. But when elections are over they still roll down their sleeves, open up their facebooks and X continue fighting with leftists online telling them what an idiot they are, and slide into their comfortable lives (as long as they have their job, house), and wait for the next Republican dinner party event to come together for photo opportunities.
But they hadn’t started their community work while those council members who are either Democrat or libertarian or undeclared continue unchallenged and staying the spokesperson of the district to the assembly members and representative and Senator of the district approving of the current leaders decisions.
The Right needs to remember if they want to change the top they got to change the foundation first. Power flows upward from the lowest levels of governance. In America it’s how we were designed. We were not designed after monarchs. We live in a country where power was supposed to stay with the people but over decades the people got lazy and started consolidating their power to their elect and the elect took advantage of the ignorance, illiterate, and lazy peoples and ruling like a monarch keeping the power between family and friends became important. However the words of the founders documents and laws hadn’t changed. Even though right now this current legislature are complaining about not following the laws as written and propositioning to change the laws so these legislators can follow. No. The laws don’t need changing. Just the leaders need to follow them. If they start changing wordings and laws the ruling class will start changing the very foundation of states and country governance. The very foundation that makes power flow upward from the people not downward from the leaders,
One more thing Damian i extend the welcome if you get tired of LA, Anchorage could use one more conservative Republican voter. We are a smaller population and our problems are STILL on the small scale. I know that as our non voters and moderates, liberals, and do nothing residents get discouraged and there is no one around them to encourage them; they’ll trickle northward to Fairbanks, Wasilla-Palmer or southward to Soldotna-Kenai or they’ll just leave thr state all together freeing up homes for sale and rent. I just pray our Right’s side Fighters dont lose hope and discouraged because they may be short a few hundred votes but they truly are a small and strong group of fighters.
Dave Donnely will lose after the mail in ballots are counted. Until the mail in ballots are done away with, the inmates will continue to run the asylum
I don’t think so. I hope not. He has worked so hard. It’ll be uncharacteristic. Besides there is nothing the Left needs to be threatened by Dave Donnelly or by McCormick or by Handaland. The left have got All the votes they need to lead undisrupted
Looks like Prop 1 is currently losing by about 120 votes, yet it says “Passed” in the summary above. But maybe you know something the rest of us don’t?
East Anchorage needs to find a conservative candidate who knows the district and can get people excited. Martinez was unnecessarily combative in the Landmine debate and came across as desperate, but at least he sounds like he knows the district inside and out. Anderson sounded like someone from Eagle River who wanted votes because Democrats are running amok. Especially with the advantage of double Martinez’s fundraising, Anderson’s result is embarrassing. He is making the district appear much less competitive than it ought to be (losing worse than Flynn, who was running in an actual liberal stronghold… an East Anchorage conservative should not be losing by 15%).
And South Anchorage is even worse! It would have been awful nice if Vergason had showed up to campaign (and/or participate in the Landmine debate). Difficult to blame conservative voters for not voting hard enough when (some) Conservative candidates can’t be bothered to make their case in public (rather than just court donors at private events). Also, it is true that Sharp is a native woman (which Dems love), but she had Cheryl Frasca doing her campaign finance (there is someone with Name ID), and probably pulled as many votes from Vergason as from Johnson. Guess what?!?! Maybe the cute games and deceptive mailers don’t work as well as an honest conversation with voters?
We shouldn’t, heck, we DON’T need to trick South Anchorage into voting for a conservative… It also shouldn’t necessarily take another Keith McCormick (who hasn’t needed to play games, but is an excellent communicator) to flip the second seat; and I don’t think we can blame RCV for making this race confusing… I mean, which is it guys, is Zac Johnson too MAGA or a Rubber Stamp for the liberals? Are we confused about why voters are confused?
Donley and Handeland know their districts and showed up and ran campaigns, it really isn’t rocket science.
All those you criticized they were all new incomers in political race even Martinez I would consider still a new comer not only in politics but also to the state because his movements and thoughts aren’t Alaskan. Handaland is still new too and it doesn’t take much out of a candidate when majority of the voters turning out think like him unlike his opponent who had an uphill climb.
If Eagleriver exits, the Eagleriver races will get easier for Democrat candidates because Democrats do better organizing when the community is smaller it makes it easier to organize and divide their opposition.
Keith is a newcomer, and he didn’t need to send out transparently deceptive mailers to get elected in South Anchorage. By your logic Zac is a newcomer as well (same as George) and yet those two also ran winning campaigns, unlike their conservative opponents.
Our inability to take constructive criticism is making us weak. I’d rather look at why we lost with clear eyes.
Backing out last minute from the one public debate, trying to run a ghost candidate backed by a well known conservative to siphon votes from the liberal, and then the same group sending out two sets of mailers to different voters saying Zac was simultaneously too MAGA and also a rubber stamp for LeFrance… Makes me think Bruce and his team didn’t think he could win in South Anchorage on the merits of a superior candidate pursuing a superior vision for the city. Which is sad and frustrating, and doesn’t leave me with a ton of patience for your apologetics.
Also, you are so wrong about Eagle River. Smaller communities don’t magically become liberal, biggest change post exit is that they’ll start growing more like the Valley instead of slowly decaying like Anchorage.