Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 36

Nonpartisan primary

ALL ADVANCE

Leading

56.2%Rebecca Schwanke (R)+12.4 over Jones

Votes counted

3,627no turnout estimate published

Precincts reporting

100.0%40 of 40 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.

Rebecca Schwanke(R)Advancing to the general56.2%2,038 votes

Crystal Jones(I)Advancing to the general43.8%1,589 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,627 votes counted so far, 3,627 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 absentee3.9%141 votesEarly in person4.7%170 votesElection day91.4%3,316 votes

Mail and absentee141 votes, 4% of the count

Schwanke (R)62.4%88Jones (I)37.6%53

Schwanke won mail and absentee ballots by 24.8 points over Jones.

Early in person170 votes, 5% of the count

Jones (I)72.4%123Schwanke (R)27.6%47

Jones won early in person ballots by 44.7 points over Schwanke, though Schwanke leads the race overall.

Election day3,316 votes, 91% of the count

Schwanke (R)57.4%1,903Jones (I)42.6%1,413

Schwanke won election day ballots by 14.8 points over Jones.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 16,115 in total, which the 3,627 votes counted so far are 22.5% 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

40 of 40 precincts finished, 40 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

40 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.