All racesAlaska State house, district 34FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 34

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
52.0%Joy Cottle (I)+4.0 over Tomaszewski
Votes counted
4,149no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%8 of 8 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.

Joy Cottle(I)Advancing to the general52.0%2,157 votes
Harmony Tomaszewski(R)Advancing to the general48.0%1,992 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 4,149 votes counted so far, 4,149 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 absentee1.7%72 votesEarly in person12.4%514 votesElection day85.9%3,563 votes
Mail and absentee72 votes, 2% of the count
Cottle (I)62.5%45Tomaszewski (R)37.5%27
Early in person514 votes, 12% of the count
Cottle (I)68.9%354Tomaszewski (R)31.1%160
Cottle won early in person ballots by 37.7 points over Tomaszewski.
Election day3,563 votes, 86% of the count
Tomaszewski (R)50.7%1,805Cottle (I)49.3%1,758
Tomaszewski won election day ballots by 1.3 points over Cottle, though Cottle leads the race overall.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 15,823 in total, which the 4,149 votes counted so far are 26.2% 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

8 of 8 precincts finished, 8 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

8 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.