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

State house, district 18

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
65.1%Cliff Groh (D)+30.3 over Sager
Votes counted
740no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%5 of 5 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.

Cliff Groh(D)Advancing to the general65.1%482 votes
Dan Sager(R)Advancing to the general34.9%258 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 740 votes counted so far, 740 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 absentee7.0%52 votesEarly in person14.3%106 votesElection day78.6%582 votes
Mail and absentee52 votes, 7% of the count
Groh (D)73.1%38Sager (R)26.9%14
Early in person106 votes, 14% of the count
Groh (D)72.6%77Sager (R)27.4%29
Groh won early in person ballots by 45.3 points over Sager.
Election day582 votes, 79% of the count
Groh (D)63.1%367Sager (R)36.9%215
Groh won election day ballots by 26.1 points over Sager.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 11,444 in total, which the 740 votes counted so far are 6.5% 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

5 of 5 precincts finished, 5 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

5 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 from Decision Desk HQ. Precincts and ballot-type splits from the Alaska Division of Elections precinct file. Feeds update minutes apart, so the precincts can trail the topline. Percentages are shares of this contest. Where a precinct reports no precinct count, progress is its vote against the expected total instead. Lead confidence reflects how much of the vote is still out, not a poll. Unofficial until certified.