All racesAlaska State house, district 25FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 25

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
40.5%DeLena Johnson (R)+8.9 over Merritt
Votes counted
4,018no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%7 of 7 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 100.0% counted, not a poll

The field

3 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 three on the ballot, nobody can be eliminated.

DeLena Johnson(R)Advancing to the general40.5%1,628 votes
Steven Merritt(I)Advancing to the general31.7%1,272 votes
Michael Bowles(R)Advancing to the general27.8%1,118 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 4,018 votes counted so far, 4,018 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 absentee4.0%159 votesEarly in person17.0%682 votesElection day79.1%3,177 votes
Mail and absentee159 votes, 4% of the count
Johnson (R)45.3%72Merritt (I)39.0%62Bowles (R)15.7%25
Johnson won mail and absentee ballots by 6.3 points over Merritt.
Early in person682 votes, 17% of the count
Johnson (R)39.7%271Merritt (I)39.1%267Bowles (R)21.1%144
Johnson won early in person ballots by 0.6 points over Merritt.
Election day3,177 votes, 79% of the count
Johnson (R)40.4%1,285Bowles (R)29.9%949Merritt (I)29.7%943
Johnson won election day ballots by 10.6 points over Bowles.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 17,297 in total, which the 4,018 votes counted so far are 23.2% 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

7 of 7 precincts finished, 7 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

7 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.