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

State house, district 18

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
65.1%Cliff Groh (D)+30.3 over Sager
Votes counted
740no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%5 of 5 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.

Cliff Groh(D)Advancing to the general65.1%482 votes
Dan Sager(R)Advancing to the general34.9%258 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 740 votes counted so far, 740 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 absentee7.0%52 votesEarly in person14.3%106 votesElection day78.6%582 votes
Mail and absentee52 votes, 7% of the count
Groh (D)73.1%38Sager (R)26.9%14
Groh won mail and absentee ballots by 46.2 points over Sager.
Early in person106 votes, 14% of the count
Groh (D)72.6%77Sager (R)27.4%29
Groh won early in person ballots by 45.3 points over Sager.
Election day582 votes, 79% of the count
Groh (D)63.1%367Sager (R)36.9%215
Groh won election day ballots by 26.1 points over Sager.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 11,444 in total, which the 740 votes counted so far are 6.5% 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

5 of 5 precincts finished, 5 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

5 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.