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

State senate, district O

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
39.8%George Rauscher (R)+8.2 over Sheldon
Votes counted
7,426no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%21 of 21 precincts
Lead holds
>99%modeled from the margin and 100.0% counted, not a poll

The field

3 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 three on the ballot, nobody can be eliminated.

George Rauscher(R)Advancing to the general39.8%2,955 votes
Ryan Sheldon(R)Advancing to the general31.6%2,345 votes
Peter Bauer(D)Advancing to the general28.6%2,126 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 7,426 votes counted so far, 7,426 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
Early in person10.2%756 votesElection day89.8%6,670 votes
Early in person756 votes, 10% of the count
Rauscher (R)46.3%350Bauer (D)28.7%217Sheldon (R)25.0%189
Rauscher won early in person ballots by 17.6 points over Bauer.
Election day6,670 votes, 90% of the count
Rauscher (R)39.1%2,605Sheldon (R)32.3%2,156Bauer (D)28.6%1,909
Rauscher won election day ballots by 6.7 points over Sheldon.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 35,172 in total, which the 7,426 votes counted so far are 21.1% 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

21 of 21 precincts finished, 21 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

21 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.