All racesAlaska State house, district 34FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 34

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
52.0%Joy Cottle (I)+4.0 over Tomaszewski
Votes counted
4,149no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%8 of 8 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.

Joy Cottle(I)Advancing to the general52.0%2,157 votes
Harmony Tomaszewski(R)Advancing to the general48.0%1,992 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 4,149 votes counted so far, 4,149 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 absentee1.7%72 votesEarly in person12.4%514 votesElection day85.9%3,563 votes
Mail and absentee72 votes, 2% of the count
Cottle (I)62.5%45Tomaszewski (R)37.5%27
Cottle won mail and absentee ballots by 25.0 points over Tomaszewski.
Early in person514 votes, 12% of the count
Cottle (I)68.9%354Tomaszewski (R)31.1%160
Cottle won early in person ballots by 37.7 points over Tomaszewski.
Election day3,563 votes, 86% of the count
Tomaszewski (R)50.7%1,805Cottle (I)49.3%1,758
Tomaszewski won election day ballots by 1.3 points over Cottle, though Cottle leads the race overall.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 15,823 in total, which the 4,149 votes counted so far are 26.2% 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

8 of 8 precincts finished, 8 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

8 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.