2026 Alaska Voter Guide
2026 Alaska Primary Voter Guide
Thank you for checking out our voter guide for Alaska’s 2026 primary election. We hope it will help as you fill out your ballot.
To use the guide, first click on a race (U.S. Senate, U.S. House, etc.) to see who’s running. Then you can browse through the candidates, or you can scroll down to compare the candidates’ responses to a series of questions.
We put this guide together with KTOO, the Alaska Beacon and the Anchorage Daily News. Each news organization asked its readers, viewers and listeners this question: What do you want candidates to talk about?
Then we reached out to the candidates with a questionnaire based on your questions. Their answers make up the voter guide.
Special thanks go out to the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, which provided funding for this project.
Don’t hesitate to tell us what you think — this tool is for you.
The primary election is on Aug. 18. Early, in-person voting began Aug. 3.
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Voters who may not have an in-person polling place in their community can vote absentee in-person for the upcoming 2026 primary election at polling locations that include Bethel and Anchorage. -
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Alaska’s deadline for voter registration is coming up soon, but some Typhoon Halong-impacted voters don’t need to update their residential address to vote, even if they’re living somewhere else.
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In polling, the former Congresswoman appears to be neck and neck with Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. Peltola spoke with KYUK while back in Bethel on the campaign trail. If elected, she would be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate in more than a decade. -
Alaskans who are currently incarcerated and awaiting trial or sentencing, and those who have served their sentence and have been released from correctional supervision are eligible to vote in all elections. -
Alaska is one of 29 states that allow at least some late-arriving ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked on or before election day. But a U.S. Supreme Court ruling could complicate that, especially for voters in the Bush.
