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

State senate, district E

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
60.8%Cathy Giessel+40.8 over Stoddard
Votes counted
7,840no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%15 of 15 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 100.0% counted, not a poll

The field

4 on the ballot, ordered by vote. This primary does not pick a nominee: the top four finishers advance to the general election. With four on the ballot, nobody can be eliminated.

Cathy GiesselAdvancing to the general60.8%4,769 votes
Gretchen StoddardAdvancing to the general20.1%1,573 votes
Leo SchaferAdvancing to the general10.3%810 votes
Jason WhiteAdvancing to the general8.8%688 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 7,840 votes counted so far, 7,840 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 absentee2.5%199 votesEarly in person12.2%959 votesElection day85.2%6,682 votes
Mail and absentee199 votes, 3% of the count
Giessel80.4%160Stoddard9.0%18Schafer5.5%11White5.0%10
Giessel won mail and absentee ballots by 71.4 points over Stoddard.
Early in person959 votes, 12% of the count
Giessel70.8%679Stoddard16.0%153Schafer7.8%75White5.4%52
Giessel won early in person ballots by 54.8 points over Stoddard.
Election day6,682 votes, 85% of the count
Giessel58.8%3,930Stoddard21.0%1,402Schafer10.8%724White9.4%626
Giessel won election day ballots by 37.8 points over Stoddard.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 31,440 in total, which the 7,840 votes counted so far are 24.9% 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

15 of 15 precincts finished, 15 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

15 precincts, plus 6 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.