All racesAlaska State house, district 5FEED 7:50 PM ET, 0s AGO
Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

State house, district 5

Nonpartisan primary
ALL ADVANCE
Leading
60.3%Kathy Simpler (I)+20.6 over Prout
Votes counted
2,631no turnout estimate published
Precincts reporting
100.0%12 of 12 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.

Kathy Simpler(I)Advancing to the general60.3%1,586 votes
Sheldon Prout(R)Advancing to the general39.7%1,045 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 2,631 votes counted so far, 2,631 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 person0.3%8 votesElection day99.7%2,623 votes
Early in person8 votes, 0% of the count
Simpler (I)100.0%8
Election day2,623 votes, 100% of the count
Simpler (I)60.2%1,578Prout (R)39.8%1,045
Simpler won election day ballots by 20.3 points over Prout.

Registered voters across the precincts in this race: 13,763 in total, which the 2,631 votes counted so far are 19.1% 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

12 of 12 precincts finished, 12 reporting anything.

Every precinct with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Every precinct

12 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.