All racesAlaska State house, district 15FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 15

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
50.8%Denny Wells (D)+1.6 over Costello
Votes counted
3,651no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%6 of 6 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 100.0% counted, not a poll

The field

2 on the ballot, ordered by vote. Every party runs on one ballot in this contest, so each name carries its own. This primary does not pick a nominee: the top four finishers advance to the general election. With two on the ballot, nobody can be eliminated.

Denny Wells(D)Advancing to the general50.8%1,854 votes
Mia Costello(R)Advancing to the general49.2%1,797 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,651 votes counted so far, 3,651 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 absentee3.2%118 votesEarly in person10.4%381 votesElection day86.3%3,152 votes
Mail and absentee118 votes, 3% of the count
Wells (D)71.2%84Costello (R)28.8%34
Wells won mail and absentee ballots by 42.4 points over Costello.
Early in person381 votes, 10% of the count
Wells (D)58.8%224Costello (R)41.2%157
Wells won early in person ballots by 17.6 points over Costello.
Election day3,152 votes, 86% of the count
Costello (R)51.0%1,606Wells (D)49.0%1,546
Costello won election day ballots by 1.9 points over Wells, though Wells leads the race overall.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 15,412 in total, which the 3,651 votes counted so far are 23.7% 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

6 of 6 precincts finished, 6 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

6 precincts, plus 3 batches counted districtwide rather than back at a precinct: early voting, absentee and question ballots. Every precinct has reported something. Click any of them to break it down above.

Topline returns from the Decision Desk HQ public results feed, with the precincts and ballot-type splits read from the Alaska Division of Elections precinct file, and reconciled against each other on every candidate's total. Percentages are the share within this contest. Where a precinct 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.