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.
Alaska Public Media 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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Trawling has become a political flashpoint. Amid the online barrage, the industry feels misunderstood. -
Bycatch is a flashpoint in the U.S. Senate race as fishermen across Alaska blame pollock trawlers for wasting thousands of salmon. -
Thousands of people in or recently out of Alaska Department of Corrections custody can vote in this year’s general election, according to the organization. -
The Peltola campaign says some of the allegations are based on lies, and that others are exaggerated. -
Statewide, about 3.4% of absentee ballots were rejected for various problems, above the average for recent elections but below the record high. -
Both Alaska U.S. Senate candidates called for changes to federal fishery management. U.S. House candidates explicitly blamed bycatch for low salmon runs in Western Alaska.
