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

State senate, district M

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
42.6%Cathy Tilton (R)+12.4 over Chesbro
Votes counted
7,278no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%14 of 14 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 100.0% counted, not a poll

The field

4 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 four on the ballot, nobody can be eliminated.

Cathy Tilton(R)Advancing to the general42.6%3,097 votes
Patricia Chesbro(D)Advancing to the general30.2%2,197 votes
Ryan Berry(R)Advancing to the general24.3%1,765 votes
Zane Vrvilo(R)Advancing to the general3.0%219 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 7,278 votes counted so far, 7,278 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%286 votesEarly in person17.1%1,248 votesElection day78.9%5,744 votes
Mail and absentee286 votes, 4% of the count
Tilton (R)46.2%132Chesbro (D)35.3%101Berry (R)15.4%44Vrvilo (R)3.1%9
Tilton won mail and absentee ballots by 10.8 points over Chesbro.
Early in person1,248 votes, 17% of the count
Tilton (R)43.8%546Chesbro (D)37.0%462Berry (R)17.5%218Vrvilo (R)1.8%22
Tilton won early in person ballots by 6.7 points over Chesbro.
Election day5,744 votes, 79% of the count
Tilton (R)42.1%2,419Chesbro (D)28.4%1,634Berry (R)26.2%1,503Vrvilo (R)3.3%188
Tilton won election day ballots by 13.7 points over Chesbro.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 34,226 in total, which the 7,278 votes counted so far are 21.3% 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

14 of 14 precincts finished, 14 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

14 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.