Shelley Hughes | |
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Minority Leader of the Alaska Senate | |
Assumed office January 17, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Tom Begich |
Majority Leader of the Alaska Senate | |
In office January 19,2021 –January 17,2023 | |
Preceded by | Lyman Hoffman |
Succeeded by | Cathy Giessel |
Member of the Alaska Senate | |
Assumed office January 22,2017 | |
Preceded by | Bill Stoltze |
Constituency | F (2017–2023) M (2023–present) |
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives | |
In office January 18,2013 –January 22,2017 | |
Preceded by | Carl Gatto (District 13) |
Succeeded by | DeLena Johnson |
Constituency | 8 (2013–2015) 11 (2015–2017) |
Personal details | |
Born | Canton,Ohio,U.S. | January 6,1958
Political party | Republican |
Education | Cuyahoga Community College University of Alaska,Anchorage (BA) |
Website | Campaign website |
Shelley Hughes (born January 6,1958,in Canton,Ohio) [1] is an American politician and a Republican member of the Alaska Senate,serving since 2017. Hughes represents Palmer and other parts of the southern Matanuska-Susitna Borough. She was previously a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from January 18,2013,until January 22,2017. [2]
Hughes has an AA from Cuyahoga Community College and a BA from the University of Alaska. [3]
Hughes was appointed to the Alaska State House of Representatives by Governor Sean Parnell,succeeding the late Representative Carl Gatto,who passed away on April 10,2012. [4] Hughes was then elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 2012,beating Daniel Hamm in the primary election. [5]
Hughes was first elected to the Alaska Senate in its 2016 election. In 2021,she was chosen to be the majority leader of the Alaska Senate.
In September 2021,Hughes was part of a panel of Alaska legislators focused on health care. Hughes argued that Alaska was "the highest cost location on the globe" for the cost of drug and medical treatment,and said she was looking at pharmacy benefit management and increased price transparency as ways to keep costs down. [6]
In May 2021,Hughes introduced a bill into the Alaska Senate that would ban transgender women and girls from playing in women's sports. The bill required that public schools,or private schools with teams that compete against public schools,have gender-segregated sporting teams and that any participant on the girls' team "must be female,based on the participant's biological sex." [7] Because the bill was introduced in the final few weeks of the legislative session,Hughes announced that she would push for it in the next legislative session instead. [7]
Hughes' husband,Roger,is a veteran of the Vietnam War. She has four children. [3]
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 4,759 | 100.0% | |
Total votes | 4,759 | 100.0% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 14,751 | 71.3% | |
Democratic | Jim Cooper | 4,904 | 23.7% | |
Other | Gavin S. Christiansen | 998 | 4.8% | |
Other | Write-ins | 29 | 0.1% | |
Total votes | 10,829 | 100.0% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 2,186 | 48.09% | |
Republican | Adam Crum | 1,885 | 41.47% | |
Republican | Steve St. Clair | 475 | 10.45% | |
Total votes | 4,546 | 100.0% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 12,284 | 69.69% | |
Other | Tim Hale | 4,750 | 27.7% | |
Other | Write-ins | 92 | 0.54% | |
Total votes | 10,829 | 100.0% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 3,402 | 100.0% | |
Total votes | 3,402 | 100.0% | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 5,268 | 69.69% | |
Democratic | Pete LaFrance | 2,275 | 30.10% | |
Other | Write-ins | 16 | 0.21% | |
Total votes | 7,559 | 100.0% |
Primary election | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 1,819 | 71.9% | |
Republican | Daniel H. Hamm | 709 | 28.1% | |
Total votes | 2,522 | 100.0 | ||
General election | ||||
Republican | Shelley Hughes | 6,183 | 95.6% | |
Other | Write-ins | 282 | 4.4% | |
Total votes | 6,465 | 100.0 |
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