As recently as midday Friday, the Division of Elections listed 26 races with fewer than two candidates, including a handful with none at all. Now, just six are unopposed.
Alaska Elections
Election updates: Dahlstrom drops out, Kreiss-Tomkins picks running mate, Myers retires
Monday is the last day to officially begin a campaign for state or federal office in Alaska this election cycle. Here are a few updates on the day’s elections news.
3 things to watch as Alaska’s election filing deadline approaches
People hoping to be the state’s next governor, congressperson or state legislator have until 5 p.m. Monday to formally file to run. Here’s what to watch as the deadline nears.
Former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker considers fifth run for governor as deadline approaches
Walker, who served as governor from 2014 to 2018, said he’d focus his campaign on a familiar priority: the need for a fiscal plan to stabilize the state’s budget.
Veto override vote on elections bill fails as two Southeast Alaska lawmakers flip
Proponents of Senate Bill 64, an unlikely coalition that included some of the Legislature’s most conservative Republican lawmakers and every member of the bipartisan House and Senate majorities, said Senate Bill 64 would make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
Alaska Republican gubernatorial candidate Shelley Hughes picks Blake Gettys as running mate
Blake Gettys, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, will run for lieutenant governor alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Shelley Hughes, the duo announced Thursday in Anchorage.