| The Green Papers: Alaska 2009 General Election |
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Alaska
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress |
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The state legislators who will meet over the two years from 2009 through 2010 will make up the 26th ALASKA LEGISLATURE. |
| U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
| Class 2 | Democratic | Senator Mark Begich • First elected: 2008 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2014 |
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| Class 3 | Republican | Senator Lisa Murkowski • Appointed by Governor Frank H. Murkowski (Republican) on 20 December 2002, to fill vacancy left by the resignation of her father, the same Frank H. Murkowski, when he resigned to become Governor of the State on 2 December 2002. First elected: 2004. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | Frank J. Vondersaar • FEC S0AK00097: Financial report not available |
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Republican | Senator Lisa Murkowski • FEC S4AK00099: $1,359,950 |
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| Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors | |||||
| Republican | Governor Sean R. Parnell • Entered office 26 July 2009 upon the resignation of Governor Governor Sarah H. Palin. • Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. |
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Democratic | former state Representative Ethan A. Berkowitz • 16 June 2009: May run for Governor. Circa 25 July 2009: Intends to run. 8 September 2009: Filed letter of intent to run for Governor. |
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Democratic | state Senator Hollis French | |||
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Democratic | former Alaska State Commissioner of Administration Bob Poe • 8 January 2009: Announced his candidacy |
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Democratic | Rob Rosenfeld | |||
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Republican | state Representative John L. Harris | |||
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Republican | Gerald L. "Jerry" Heikes | |||
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Republican | Jerry Heikes | |||
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Alaskan Independence | Don R. Wright | |||
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Independent | Tim Triumph | |||
| Republican Governor Sarah H. Palin, who was first elected in 2006, resigned on 26 July 2009. She had announced her resignation on 26 July. | |||||
| Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected on a ticket with (but nominated separately from) the Governor | |||||
| Republican | Temporary Substitute Lieutenant Governor Craig E. Campbell • 26 July 2009: Assumed the role of Lieutenant Governor upon the ascension of Lieutenant Governor Sean R. Parnell to the Governor's Chair. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Republican | state Representative Jay Ramras | |||
| Republican Lieutenant Governor Sean R. Parnell, who was first elected in 2006, became governor upon the 26 July 2009 resignation of Governor Sarah H. Palin. Mr. Campbell was named successor to the Lieutenant Governor's Chair by then Governor Palin. | |||||
| 111th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House | |||||
| Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 1 Republican (1 Undetermined) | |||||
| At-Large {map} |
Republican | Congressman Don E. Young • First elected: 6 March 1973- in a Special Election re: the presumed death of Congressman Nick Begich in a plane crash, 16 October 1972 (Congressman Begich was re-elected to the House of the 93rd Congress, 7 November 1972, before he was declared legally dead and his seat thereby declared vacant) • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
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Democratic | state Representative Harry T. Crawford, Jr. • FEC H0AK00089: $18,730 |
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Republican | Andrew Halcro | |||
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Republican | Congressman Don E. Young • FEC H6AK00045: $306,850 |
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| Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |