All racesAlaska Ballot measure 1FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

Ballot measure 1

Nonpartisan primary
Polls close 1:00 AM ET
Leading
71.3%YES+42.6 over NO
Votes counted
130,768no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
99.5%400 of 402 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 99.5% counted, not a poll

The field

2 on the ballot, ordered by vote.

YES71.3%93,215 votes
NO28.7%37,553 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 130,768 votes counted so far, 127,971 come with the ballot type published. Mail ballots are usually counted first and election-day ballots last, so a lead built on one can move as the others land. Each bar below is that way of voting on its own: who won it, and by how much.

Ballots counted so far, by type
Mail and absentee2.1%2,645 votesEarly in person10.2%13,041 votesElection day87.7%112,285 votes
Mail and absentee2,645 votes, 2% of the count
YES81.4%2,152NO18.6%493
YES won mail and absentee ballots by 62.7 points over NO.
Early in person13,041 votes, 10% of the count
YES76.7%10,002NO23.3%3,039
YES won early in person ballots by 53.4 points over NO.
Election day112,285 votes, 88% of the count
YES70.2%78,833NO29.8%33,452
YES won election day ballots by 40.4 points over NO.

Registered voters across the boroughs and census areas in this race: 601,104 in total, which the 130,768 votes counted so far are 21.8% of. Registration is the whole electorate, not the primary electorate, so it sets the scale rather than predicting the result.

What is left to count

28 of 29 boroughs and census areas finished, 29 reporting anything.

Every borough with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Where the vote is coming from

Shaded for whoever leads each borough, deeper where the margin is wider. Click one to pin it below.

YESNO

The map is framed on the 29 boroughs and census areas this district covers, with the rest of Alaska drawn around them.

Every borough

29 boroughs and census areas in this race. Every borough has reported something. These cover 127,971 of the 130,768 votes counted; the other 2,797 were counted districtwide across boroughs and census areas they cannot be assigned to, and are in the ledger below. Click any of them to break it down above.

Every precinct

402 precincts, plus 120 batches counted districtwide rather than back at a precinct: early voting, absentee and question ballots. 2 precincts have counted nothing yet, between them 521 registered voters. Click any of them to break it down above.

Topline returns from the Decision Desk HQ public results feed, with the boroughs and census areas, precincts and ballot-type splits read from the Alaska Division of Elections precinct file and state's own precinct boundaries placed against Census county lines, and reconciled against each other on every candidate's total. Percentages are the share within this contest. Where a borough publishes no precinct count, progress is its counted vote against the expected total, or the feed’s own completion flag, and is labeled as such. Lead confidence describes how much of the vote is still out, not a polling forecast. Results are unofficial until certified.