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The 2018 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. In the primaries for recognized political parties, candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor run separately. The winners of each respective primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor then become a joint ticket in the general election for their political party.
Alaska is a U.S. state in the northwest extremity of North America, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. The Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon border the state to the east, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas—southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest state in the United States by area and the seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the United States Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
Independent candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor may form a ticket that will appear on the general election ballot, provided that both candidates on the ticket collect enough valid petition signatures, as mandated by the Alaska Division of Elections.
Candidates from the Alaska Democratic Party, Alaska Libertarian Party and Alaskan Independence Party appear on the same ballot, with the highest-placed candidate from each party receiving that party's nomination.[ clarification needed ] In October 2017 the AKDP sued for the right to allow non-Democrats to compete for and win the Democratic nomination, which was ultimately decided in their favor in April 2018. [1] This move was widely thought to benefit incumbent Gov. Bill Walker, to foreclose the possibility of a Democratic nominee splitting the vote with Walker against a Republican nominee. However, with the entry of former Senator Mark Begich into the race, Walker withdrew from the Democratic primary and forged ahead with a fully independent bid for reelection. [2]
The Alaska Democratic Party is the affiliate branch of the United States Democratic Party in the state of Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage.
The Alaskan Independence Party (AKIP) is a political party and independence movement in the U.S. state of Alaska that advocates an in-state referendum which includes the option of Alaska becoming an independent country. The party also advocates positions similar to those of the Constitution Party, Republican Party and Libertarian Party, supporting gun rights, privatization, home schooling, and limited government.
Mark Peter Begich is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was Mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009.
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Democratic | Mark Begich | 33,451 | 85.3 | |
Libertarian | William Toien | 5,790 | 14.8 | |
Total votes | 39,241 | 100.0 |
Edgar Blatchford was born in Nome, Alaska in 1950 and relocated to Seward, Alaska in 1960. He has served as mayor of Seward (1999-2003) and had sought the 2016 Democratic Party nomination for United States Senator from Alaska, but lost the nomination in the Alaskan primary to Ray Metcalfe. Blatchford filed to run for lieutenant governor in the 2018 Democratic primary, but dropped out of the race on June 8, 2018. He has been a professor at the University of Anchorage Alaska (UAA) since 1995, teaching in the Department of Journalism and Public Communications. Blatchford also served as Commissioner of the Department of Community and Regional Affairs (1990-1994) under governor Walter J. Hickel and Commissioner of Community and Economic Development (2003-2005) under governor Frank Murkowski. In addition, Blatchford has also served on the board of directors of Chugach Alaska Corporation on several occasions.
Seward is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska, United States. Located on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, Seward is situated on Alaska's southern coast, approximately 120 miles by road from Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, and nearly 1,300 miles from the closest point in the contiguous United States at Cape Flattery, Washington.
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Democratic | Debra Call | 34,291 | 100.0 | |
Total votes | 34,291 | 100.0 |
Louis Mead Treadwell II is an American businessman and politician who served as lieutenant governor of Alaska from 2010 to 2014. Treadwell is the former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission serving from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a candidate for the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Alaska.
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Mike Dunleavy | Scott Hawkins | Mead Treadwell | Other | Undecided |
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Dittman Research (R-Dunleavy for Alaska) | June 5–7, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 46% | 7% | 19% | 3% | 25% |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Mike Dunleavy | 43,802 | 61.5 | |
Republican | Mead Treadwell | 22,780 | 32.0 | |
Republican | Michael Sheldon | 1,640 | 2.3 | |
Republican | Merica Hlatcu | 1,064 | 1.5 | |
Republican | Thomas Gordon | 884 | 1.4 | |
Republican | Gerald Heikes | 499 | 0.7 | |
Republican | Darin Colbry | 416 | 0.6 | |
Total votes | 71,195 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Kevin Meyer | 23,838 | 35.8 | |
Republican | Edie Grunwald | 18,097 | 27.1 | |
Republican | Gary Stevens | 8,123 | 12.2 | |
Republican | Lynn Gattis | 6,156 | 10.4 | |
Republican | Sharon Jackson | 5,394 | 8.1 | |
Republican | Stephen Wright | 4,321 | 6.5 | |
Total votes | 66,671 | 100.0 |
Independent candidate and incumbent Governor Bill Walker announced on October 19 that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Mark Begich, three days after Walker's running mate and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott resigned from office (and amid low polling numbers just three weeks before election day). [38] [39] However, Walker and Mallott will still remain on the ballot as the deadline to withdraw was on September 4. [40]
Source | Ranking | As of |
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The Cook Political Report [41] | Lean R | October 26, 2018 |
Inside Elections [42] | Tilt R | November 1, 2018 |
Sabato's Crystal Ball [43] | Lean R | November 5, 2018 |
Daily Kos [44] | Lean R | November 5, 2018 |
Fox News [45] [lower-alpha 1] | Tossup | November 5, 2018 |
Politico [46] | Lean R | November 5, 2018 |
Governing [47] | Tossup | November 5, 2018 |
The Washington Post [48] | Lean R | November 5, 2018 |
FiveThirtyEight [49] | Lean R | November 5, 2018 |
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Bill Walker (I) | Mike Dunleavy (R) | Mark Begich (D) | Billy Toien (L) | Other | Undecided |
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Alaska Survey Research | October 26–29, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 8% | 43% | 42% | 3% | – | 4% |
Alaska Survey Research | October 19–22, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 5% | 48% | 44% | – | – | 3% |
Alaska Survey Research | October 12–14, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 27% | 43% | 26% | – | – | 4% |
Public Policy Polling (D) | October 11–12, 2018 | 645 | – | 24% | 43% | 23% | – | – | 9% |
Alaska Survey Research | October 1–6, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 27% | 47% | 23% | – | – | 4% |
Alaska Survey Research | September 21–25, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 23% | 44% | 29% | – | – | 4% |
Harstad Strategic Research | August 13–16, 2018 | 602 | ± 4.0% | 26% | 36% | 24% | – | 2% | 12% |
Patinkin Research Strategies (I-Walker) | June 22–28, 2018 | 800 | ± 3.4% | 28% | 36% | 22% | – | – | 15% |
Harstad Strategic Research (D) | June 21–26, 2018 | 602 | ± 4.0% | 28% | 32% | 28% | – | – | 12% |
Alaska Survey Research | June 15–21, 2018 | 654 | ± 3.8% | 23% | 38% | 33% | – | – | 6% |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Mark Begich (D) | Mike Dunleavy (R) | Undecided |
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Alaska Survey Research | October 12–14, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 45% | 52% | 4% |
Alaska Survey Research | October 1–6, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 41% | 55% | 5% |
Alaska Survey Research | September 21–25, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.4% | 47% | 50% | 3% |
Harstad Strategic Research | August 13–16, 2018 | 602 | ± 4.0% | 46% | 44% | – |
Harstad Strategic Research (D) | June 21–26, 2018 | 602 | ± 4.0% | 50% | 41% | 9% |
Alaska Survey Research | March 25–29, 2018 | 761 | ± 3.6% | 53% | 42% | 5% |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Republican | Mike Dunleavy | 143,612 | 51.55% | +5.67% | |
Democratic | Mark Begich | 123,446 | 44.31% | N/A | |
Independent | Bill Walker (incumbent) (withdrawn) | 5,642 | 2.03% | -46.07% | |
Libertarian | William Toien | 5,304 | 1.90% | -1.31% | |
n/a | Write-ins | 593 | 0.21% | -0.11% | |
Total votes | 278,597 | 100.0% | N/A | ||
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