The Alaska Division of Elections lists all precincts reporting Election Day results. Those results also include a precinct-by-precinct breakdown for each house district, including House District 10. Statewide, more than 120,000 ballots remain to be counted, and that count won’t begin until next week.
Statewide, Election Day results leaned heavily in favor of Republican incumbents and against both ballot initiatives. Those results also held true for most of District 10.
Incumbent representative David Eastman has a lead of just over four thousand votes over Democratic challenger Monica-Stein Olson. That number is very close to the total number of absentee ballots issued in District 10.
In up-ballot races, most of District 10 leaned more in favor of Republicans than the state as a whole. President Donald J. Trump, Senator Dan Sullivan, and Representative Don Young all out-performed their statewide percentages in Election Day votes.
Also, if it were solely up to District 10 on Election Day, none of the judges up for retention, both on the Alaska Supreme Court and the Third District Court, would be retained.
District 10 voters on Election Day also voted in opposition to both statewide ballot measures in greater percentages than in statewide totals.
There are two outliers to the results. Early voters, whose ballots were counted on Election Day, more closely align to statewide results. The other exception is Talkeetna, which voted opposite of the rest of the district on every item on the ballot.
Before Election Day, an Alaska Public Media estimate based on Division of Elections Data showed more than 3,200 absentee ballots had been returned, with about another 900 still outstanding. Alaska allows absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day and arriving before November 13th to be counted. Counting of absentee ballots is scheduled to begin on November 10th.
