All racesAlaska State house, district 23FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 23

Nonpartisan primary
Polls close 1:00 AM ET
Leading
40.7%Jamie Allard (R)+9.5 over Arlington
Votes counted
3,896no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%6 of 6 precincts
Gap at 4th place
3.3%Capozzi holds the last place forward over Hammermeister

The field

5 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. None of those places is settled yet.

Jamie Allard(R)40.7%1,586 votes
Jim Arlington(D)31.2%1,215 votes
Ruby Jones(R)13.5%526 votes
Nick Capozzi(R)8.9%348 votes
Lee Hammermeister(D)5.7%221 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,896 votes counted so far, 3,896 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 absentee3.3%130 votesEarly in person17.4%679 votesElection day79.2%3,087 votes
Mail and absentee130 votes, 3% of the count
Arlington (D)38.5%50Allard (R)33.1%43Jones (R)20.0%26Capozzi (R)5.4%7Hammermeister (D)3.1%4
Arlington won mail and absentee ballots by 5.4 points over Allard, though Allard leads the race overall.
Early in person679 votes, 17% of the count
Allard (R)38.9%264Arlington (D)37.7%256Jones (R)11.0%75Hammermeister (D)6.3%43Capozzi (R)6.0%41
Allard won early in person ballots by 1.2 points over Arlington.
Election day3,087 votes, 79% of the count
Allard (R)41.4%1,279Arlington (D)29.4%909Jones (R)13.8%425Capozzi (R)9.7%300Hammermeister (D)5.6%174
Allard won election day ballots by 12.0 points over Arlington.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 16,538 in total, which the 3,896 votes counted so far are 23.6% 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.