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

State house, district 7

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
74.4%Justin Ruffridge (R)+48.7 over Veh
Votes counted
3,239no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%6 of 6 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.

Justin Ruffridge(R)Advancing to the general74.4%2,409 votes
Kate Veh(D)Advancing to the general25.6%830 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,239 votes counted so far, 3,239 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 absentee3.4%110 votesEarly in person11.0%355 votesElection day85.6%2,774 votes
Mail and absentee110 votes, 3% of the count
Ruffridge (R)64.5%71Veh (D)35.5%39
Ruffridge won mail and absentee ballots by 29.1 points over Veh.
Early in person355 votes, 11% of the count
Ruffridge (R)67.3%239Veh (D)32.7%116
Ruffridge won early in person ballots by 34.6 points over Veh.
Election day2,774 votes, 86% of the count
Ruffridge (R)75.7%2,099Veh (D)24.3%675
Ruffridge won election day ballots by 51.3 points over Veh.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 17,052 in total, which the 3,239 votes counted so far are 19.0% 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.