Alaska 2024 Election Results

Alaska held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 50 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Party labels barely moved in Alaska's ranked-choice general election, but the House changed hands anyway: the Republican-led majority of 23 gave way to a bare 21-member majority of Democrats, independents, and moderate Republicans, which organized the day after the election under returning Speaker Bryce Edgmon (I) with Chuck Kopp (R) as majority leader. The Senate's bipartisan coalition survived in reduced form, shrinking from 17 members (nine Democrats and eight Republicans) to 14 (nine Democrats and five Republicans).
• Ranked-choice voting let several incumbents lose to challengers from their own party, so more sitting members fell than the party math suggests:
  • Sen. David Wilson (R), a member of the Senate majority, lost by a wide margin to fellow Republican Rob Yundt (R) in Wasilla's Senate District N.
  • Rep. Craig Johnson (R) lost South Anchorage's House District 10 to former Rep. Chuck Kopp (R), who became the new majority's floor leader, and Rep. David Eastman (R), who belonged to neither caucus, lost House District 27 to Jubilee Underwood (R).
  • Rep. Cliff Groh (D) led House District 18 from election night until the final count, then lost by 22 votes to David Nelson (R); Rep. CJ McCormick (D) lost House District 38 to fellow Democrat Nellie Jimmie (D).
  • Democrats took two Republican-held seats: Ted Eischeid (D) over Rep. Stanley Wright (R) in House District 22, and Robyn Burke (D) over Rep. Thomas Baker, a Republican turned independent, in the North Slope's House District 40.
  • Two open seats also changed labels: independent Ky Holland won South Anchorage's House District 9, previously held by retiring Rep. Laddie Shaw (R), and Jeremy Bynum (R) took Ketchikan's House District 1 from retiring independent Dan Ortiz.
• The tightest count was an all-Republican open seat in Wasilla, House District 28, where Elexie Moore (R) beat Steve Menard (R) by 12 votes in the final ranked-choice round, a margin a December recount trimmed to nine without changing the outcome. In the Senate, coalition Democrat Scott Kawasaki (D) held Fairbanks' Senate District P over Leslie Hajdukovich (R) by about three points in what the Anchorage Daily News called the most expensive race of the cycle.
• Voters approved Ballot Measure 1, which raises the minimum wage to $15 an hour and requires paid sick leave, with about 58 percent, and narrowly kept the ranked-choice system itself: Ballot Measure 2, the repeal, failed by two tenths of a percent, and a state-funded recount requested by the Alaska Republican Party confirmed the result by 743 votes.
• Across the 50 legislative races, 5 seats changed party labels (two Democratic pickups, two Republican pickups, and one Republican seat won by an independent), 7 sitting members were defeated, and 11 seats drew a single candidate.

Legislature

• House (40 seats): 13 D, 21 R, 6 other or vacant before the election, 14 D, 21 R, 5 other or vacant after; control stayed with a bipartisan coalition.
• Senate (20 seats): 9 D, 11 R before the election, 9 D, 11 R after; control stayed with a bipartisan coalition.

Legislative races

Ballot measures