Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 29

Nonpartisan primary

Polls close 1:00 AM ET

Leading

40.5%Steve Menard (R)+16.9 over Nelson

Votes counted

3,759no turnout estimate published

Precincts reporting

100.0%9 of 9 precincts

Gap at 4th place

3.2%Kusner-Kalarchik holds the last place forward over Frisby

The field

6 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. None of those places is settled yet.

Steve Menard(R)40.5%1,524 votes

Gerald Nelson(R)23.7%890 votes

Kimberly Slone(D)21.5%810 votes

Jessica Kusner-Kalarchik(I)7.7%289 votes

Candice Frisby(I)4.5%168 votes

Amber Hansen(I)2.1%78 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 3,759 votes counted so far, 3,759 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 person12.7%478 votesElection day87.3%3,281 votes

Early in person478 votes, 13% of the count

Menard (R)38.3%183Slone (D)26.6%127Nelson (R)24.9%119Kusner-Kalarchik (I)7.3%35Hansen (I)1.7%8Frisby (I)1.3%6

Menard won early in person ballots by 11.7 points over Slone.

Election day3,281 votes, 87% of the count

Menard (R)40.9%1,341Nelson (R)23.5%771Slone (D)20.8%683Kusner-Kalarchik (I)7.7%254Frisby (I)4.9%162Hansen (I)2.1%70

Menard won election day ballots by 17.4 points over Nelson.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 17,272 in total, which the 3,759 votes counted so far are 21.8% 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

9 of 9 precincts finished, 9 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

9 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.