The Green Papers: Alaska 2004 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Tuesday 24 August 2004
General Election: Tuesday 2 November 2004
Electoral Votes:3(0.56% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:1(0.23% of 435)
2000 Census:628,933 (0.22% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):430,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):473,648
Capital:Juneau
Tuesday 24 August 2004 polls close 8:00p AKDT (0400 UTC) / 8:00p ALDT (0500 UTC). Alaska Time covers most of the state except for the Aleutian Islands west of Umnak Island (approximately half of Aleutian Islands). The media considers Alaska's polls to close at 8 PM Alaska Time and, thus, considers the State "callable" after that hour.
Tuesday 2 November 2004 polls close 8:00p AKST (0500 UTC) / 8:00p ALST (0600 UTC). Alaska Time covers most of the state except for the Aleutian Islands west of Umnak Island (approximately half of Aleutian Islands). The media considers Alaska's polls to close at 8 PM Alaska Time and, thus, considers the State "callable" after that hour.
 

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Alaska State and Local Government

Alaska 2004 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: Democrats   Republicans   Third Parties


24 August 2004 Primary returns from an official source.

 
           

President  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 3 (Winner-take-all), How Appointed, Meeting Place, Duly Appointed Presidential Electors. List of States: Details.
Up for election in 2004
  Elected Republican 190,889 61.07% President George W. Bush
(3 Electoral Votes)
Vice President: Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney
Renominated by Convention - 2 September 2004
  Candidate Democrat 111,025 35.52% Senator John Kerry
Vice President: Senator John Edwards
  Candidate Populist 5,069 1.62% Ralph Nader
Vice President: Peter Miguel Camejo
  Candidate Alaska Independence 2,092 0.67% Michael Anthony Peroutka
Vice President: Chuck Baldwin
Constitution
  Candidate Libertarian 1,675 0.54% Michael Badnarik
Vice President: Richard Campagna
  Candidate Green 1,058 0.34% David Keith Cobb
Vice President: Patricia Helen "Pat" LaMarche
  Candidate --scatter-- 790 0.25% Write-in (Miscellaneous)
Total 312,598 100.00%  

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 108th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2   Republican   Senator Ted Stevens
Appointed by Governor Walter J. Hickel (Republican) on 24 December 1968, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Senator E. L. Bartlett (Democrat): 11 December 1968; elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1970; elected to first full term: 1972; re-elected: 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996; 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Class 3
Seat up for election
  Republican   Senator Lisa Murkowski
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
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 2004
Renominated - 24 August 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 149,773 48.58% Senator Lisa Murkowski
  Candidate Democrat 140,424 45.55% Former Alaskan Governor Tony Knowles
  Candidate Nonpartisan 8,885 2.88% Marc J. Millican
  Candidate Alaska Independence 3,785 1.23% Jerry Sanders
  Candidate Green 3,053 0.99% Jim Sykes
  Candidate Libertarian 1,240 0.40% Scott A. Kohlhaas
  Candidate Nonpartisan 732 0.24% Ted "Big" Gianoutsos
  Candidate --scatter-- 423 0.14% Write-in
Total 308,315 100.00%  

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

    Republican   Governor Frank H. Murkowski
First elected: 2002
Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Elected on a ticket with (but nominated separately from) the Governor

    Republican   Lieutenant Governor Loren D. Leman
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

108th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2004, 2006. No Term Limit. 108th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
1 Republican (1 Renominated)

At-Large
Seat up for election
  Republican   Congressman Don E. Young
• Re-elected Tuesday 2 November 2004
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 2004
Renominated - 24 August 2004 Primary
  Elected Republican 213,216 71.07% Congressman Don E. Young
  Candidate Democrat 67,074 22.36% Thomas M. Higgins
  Candidate Green 11,434 3.81% Timothy A. Feller
  Candidate Libertarian 7,157 2.39% Alvin A. Anders
  Candidate --scatter-- 1,115 0.37% Write-in
Total 299,996 100.00%  

 


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