All racesAlaska State house, district 25FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 25

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
40.5%DeLena Johnson (R)+8.9 over Merritt
Votes counted
4,018no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%7 of 7 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.

DeLena Johnson(R)Advancing to the general40.5%1,628 votes
Steven Merritt(I)Advancing to the general31.7%1,272 votes
Michael Bowles(R)Advancing to the general27.8%1,118 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 4,018 votes counted so far, 4,018 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 absentee4.0%159 votesEarly in person17.0%682 votesElection day79.1%3,177 votes
Mail and absentee159 votes, 4% of the count
Johnson (R)45.3%72Merritt (I)39.0%62Bowles (R)15.7%25
Johnson won mail and absentee ballots by 6.3 points over Merritt.
Early in person682 votes, 17% of the count
Johnson (R)39.7%271Merritt (I)39.1%267Bowles (R)21.1%144
Johnson won early in person ballots by 0.6 points over Merritt.
Election day3,177 votes, 79% of the count
Johnson (R)40.4%1,285Bowles (R)29.9%949Merritt (I)29.7%943
Johnson won election day ballots by 10.6 points over Bowles.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 17,297 in total, which the 4,018 votes counted so far are 23.2% 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

7 of 7 precincts finished, 7 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

7 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.