All racesAlaska State house, district 29FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 29

Nonpartisan primary
Polls close 1:00 AM ET
Leading
40.5%Steve Menard (R)+16.9 over Nelson
Votes counted
3,759no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%9 of 9 precincts
Gap at 4th place
3.2%Kusner-Kalarchik holds the last place forward over Frisby

The field

6 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.

Steve Menard(R)40.5%1,524 votes
Gerald Nelson(R)23.7%890 votes
Kimberly Slone(D)21.5%810 votes
Jessica Kusner-Kalarchik(I)7.7%289 votes
Candice Frisby(I)4.5%168 votes
Amber Hansen(I)2.1%78 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,759 votes counted so far, 3,759 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
Early in person12.7%478 votesElection day87.3%3,281 votes
Early in person478 votes, 13% of the count
Menard (R)38.3%183Slone (D)26.6%127Nelson (R)24.9%119Kusner-Kalarchik (I)7.3%35Hansen (I)1.7%8Frisby (I)1.3%6
Menard won early in person ballots by 11.7 points over Slone.
Election day3,281 votes, 87% of the count
Menard (R)40.9%1,341Nelson (R)23.5%771Slone (D)20.8%683Kusner-Kalarchik (I)7.7%254Frisby (I)4.9%162Hansen (I)2.1%70
Menard won election day ballots by 17.4 points over Nelson.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 17,272 in total, which the 3,759 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

9 of 9 precincts finished, 9 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

9 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.