The results of the House District 10 primary have been certified by the Alaska Division of Elections.
According to official results posted by the state on Tuesday morning for the Republican primary, incumbent Representative David Eastman has defeated challenger Jesse Sumner, who currently sits on the Mat-Su Borough Assembly. Eastman received 169 more votes out of approximately 3,000 counted in the primary.
In the Democratic primary, Monica-Stein Olson ran unopposed, and is the nominee for the general election. Patricia Faye-Brazel, who has run against Representative Eastman twice, had initially filed as a petition candidate, but will not be on the November ballot.
In statewide races, District 10 voted in accord with the overall results. For Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat that is up for election, incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan ran unopposed. District 10 voters overwhelmingly chose Dr. Al Gross to be his opponent in the Democratic primary.
In the U.S. House race, while Representative Don Young did face two primary challengers, he came away with more than two-thirds of District 10’s votes in the Republican primary. Susitna Valley voters in the Democratic primary swung heavily toward Alyse Galvin, making the race for Alaska’s sole House seat a rematch of 2018.
More than a third of voters in the August 18th primary cast either absentee or early ballots, compared to about fifteen percent in 2018.
