The Green Papers: Alaska 2020 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
✓ Primary: Tuesday 18 August 2020
✓ General Election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
Monday 1 June 2020 - Filing Deadline - Primary, Independent .
Wednesday 5 August 2020 - Filing Deadline - Independent Presidential candidates .
Tuesday 18 August 2020 - Primary . Polling hours 7:00a-8:00p AKDT (1500-0400 UTC) / 7:00a-8:00p HADT (1600-0500 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 18 August 2020 - Filing Deadline - No-party candidates nominating petitions .
Thursday 29 October 2020 - Filing Deadline - Write-in (letter of intent) .
Tuesday 3 November 2020 - General Election . Polling hours 7:00a-8:00p AKST (1600-0500 UTC) / 7:00a-8:00p HAST (1700-0600 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.
 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
Governor:1 
2010 Census:721,523 (0.23% of 309,785,186)
2012, 2016, 2020 Electoral Votes:3(0.56% of 538)
2012-2020 Representatives:1(0.23% of 435)
Capital:Juneau
 

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Alaska State and Local Government

Alaska 2020 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats   Republicans


Any voter may participate in the Alaska Democratic Party, Alaska Libertarian Party, and Alaskan Independence Party primary. Only voters registered with the party affiliation of Republican, Nonpartisan, or Undeclared may vote in the Alaska Republican Party primary.


Primary and General Election Candidate List and Candidate Filing Forms and Information from the Alaska Division of Elections.


18 August 2020 Primary results from a media source.

18 August 2020 Primary returns from the Alaska Division of Elections.


General Election candidate list and Sample Ballots from the Alaska Division of Elections.

General Election ballot partisan affiliation legal action: Galvin v Fenumiai, 3JAN-20-07991CI. On 18 September 2020, the Alaska Supreme Court announced that it would not order the ballots to be reprinted.

3 November 2020 returns from the Alaska Division of Elections.

 
           

President  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. 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 Presidential Candidates by State, List of Presidential Candidates.
Up for election in 2020
 Candidate list (7, 23 write-ins)
  Elected Republican 189,951 52.83% President Donald John Trump
for Vice President: Vice President Michael R. "Mike" Pence
(3 Electoral Votes)
FEC P80001571; 23 Nov 20; Tot $717,303,371; Dsb $718,174,436
  Candidate Democratic 153,778 42.77% former Vice President Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.
for Vice President: California Senator Kamala D. Harris
FEC P80000722; 23 Nov 20; Tot $1,064,613,463; Dsb $1,063,053,521
  Candidate Libertarian 8,897 2.47% Jo Jorgensen
for Vice President: Jeremy "Spike" Cohen
FEC P00013524; 23 Nov 20; Tot $3,405,357; Dsb $3,373,521
  Candidate Green 2,673 0.74% James George "Jesse Ventura" Janos
for Vice President: Cynthia McKinnney
  Candidate Scattering 1,961 0.55% Write-in
  Candidate Constitution 1,127 0.31% Don Blankenship
for Vice President: William Alan Mohr
FEC P00014209; 20 Dec 20; Tot $83,880; Dsb $83,880
  Candidate Petition; (Independent) 825 0.23% Brock Jeffrey Pierce
for Vice President: Karla Marie Ballard
Party: AOA-ANC

FEC P00016550; 23 Nov 20; Tot $6,347,587; Dsb $6,315,486
  Candidate Alliance Party 318 0.09% Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, Jr.
for Vice President: Darcy G. Richardson
FEC P60016342; 23 Nov 20; Tot $14,220,189; Dsb $14,208,041
  Candidate Write-in     Dennis Andrew Ball
for Vice President: Richard A. Sanders
AOA-ANC
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican)     Barbara Ruth Bellar
for Vice President: Kendra Bryant
FEC P00012799; 30 Sep 20; Tot $5,051; Dsb $729
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     President R19 Boddie
for Vice President: Eric C. Stoneham
FEC P00017202
  Candidate Write-in     David C. Byrne
for Vice President: Tony N. Reed
C.C.U.S.A.
  Candidate Write-in; (American Solidarity)     Brian T. Carroll
for Vice President: Amar Patel
FEC P00013771
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Todd Cella
for Vice President: Timothy Bryan "Tim" Cella
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Mark Robert Charles
for Vice President: Adrian D. Wallace
FEC P00012039; 23 Nov 20; Tot $157,733; Dsb $155,506
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich
for Vice President: Veronica Ehrenreich
FEC P00011395
  Candidate Write-in; (Socialist Party USA)     Howie Gresham Hawkins
for Vice President: Angela Nichole Walker
FEC P00012211; 23 Nov 20; Tot $495,566; Dsb $476,095
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Thomas "Tom" Hoefling
for Vice President: Andy Prior
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Shawn W. Howard
for Vice President: Alyssa C. Howard
FEC P00011189; 23 Nov 20; Tot $3,386; Dsb $3,281
  Candidate Write-in; (Progressive)     Dario David Hunter
for Vice President: Dawn Neptune Adams
FEC P00010124; 23 Nov 20; Tot $33,396; Dsb $31,461
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Joseph W. "Joe" McHugh
for Vice President: Elizabeth "Liz" Storm
FEC P00013326
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican)     Albert L. Raley
for Vice President: Darlene Raley
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Deborah Ann "Debbie" Rouse
for Vice President: Sheila Marie Cannon
FEC P00005207
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Jade Simmons
for Vice President: Claudeliah J. "CJ" Roze
FEC P00015537; 23 Nov 20; Tot $125,500; Dsb $72,644
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Mary Ruth Caro Simmons
for Vice President: Sherrie Dow
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Ajay Sood
for Vice President: Richard Mende
FEC P60020963; 30 Sep 20; Tot $6,365; Dsb $6,304
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Sheila "Samm" Tittle
for Vice President: John Wagner
FEC P20002630
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Kasey J. Wells
for Vice President: Rachel M. Wells
FEC P00007864; 14 Oct 20; Tot $10,625; Dsb $10,578
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Kanye "Deez Nutz" West
for Vice President: Michelle Tidball
FEC P00016741; 23 Nov 20; Tot $14,442,390; Dsb $12,135,513
  Candidate Write-in     Demetra Jefferson Wysinger
for Vice President: Cedric D. Jefferson
WXYZ NEW DAY

FEC P00013581
Total 359,530 100.00%  

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 116th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2
Seat up for regular election
Republican Senator Dan Sullivan
• Re-elected Tuesday 3 November 2020
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
Renominated
 Candidate list (3, 3 write-ins)
  Elected Republican 191,112 53.90% Senator Dan Sullivan
FEC S4AK00214; 23 Nov 20; Tot $8,899,081; Dsb $9,190,926
  Candidate Democratic; (Nonpartisan) 146,068 41.19% Al Gross
FEC S0AK00196; 23 Nov 20; Tot $19,539,874; Dsb $19,410,840
  Candidate Alaskan Independence 16,806 4.74% John Wayne Howe
FEC S0AK00238
  Candidate Scattering 601 0.17% Write-in
  Candidate Write-in; (Non Affiliated)     Sid Hill
FEC S0AK00162
  Candidate Write-in; (Green)     Jed Party Whittaker
FEC S2AK00044
Total 354,587 100.00%  

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; relected: 2010 (as a write-in), 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Republican Governor Mike J. Dunleavy
First elected: 2018
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Elected on a ticket with (but nominated separately from) the Governor

  Republican Lieutenant Governor Kevin G. Meyer
First elected: 2018
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022

116th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2020, 2021. No Term Limit. 116th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
1 Republican (1 Renominated)

Incumbent - 116th Congress
At-Large
Seat up for regular election
Republican Member of Congress Donald E. "Don" Young
• Re-elected Tuesday 3 November 2020
First elected: 6 March 1973- in a Special Election re: the presumed death of Member of Congress Nick Begich in a plane crash, 16 October 1972 (Member of Congress 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 regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
Renominated
 Candidate list (2, 2 write-ins) - 117th Congress
  Elected Republican 192,126 54.40% Member of Congress Donald E. "Don" Young
FEC H6AK00045; 23 Nov 20; Tot $1,944,410; Dsb $1,816,217
  Candidate Democratic; (Nonpartisan) 159,856 45.26% Alyse S. Galvin
FEC H8AK00140; 23 Nov 20; Tot $5,251,718; Dsb $5,133,878
  Candidate Scattering 1,183 0.33% Write-in
  Candidate Write-in; (Republican)     Gerald L. "Jer" Heikes
18 August 2020: Lost Republican Primary. Now running as a write-in.

FEC H6AK00268
Total 353,165 100.00%  
 

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.

Major Parties   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 3 candidates
  Republican: 5 incumbents, 6 candidates
Major Third Parties   Any Party, other than a Major Party, receiving a minimum of 15/100ths of 1 percent of the nationwide popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Constitution (affiliates): 1 candidate
  Green (affiliates): 2 candidates
  Libertarian: 1 candidate
Other Third Parties
  Alaskan Independence: 1 candidate
  Alliance Party (affiliates): 1 candidate
  American Solidarity: 1 candidate
  Justice Party
  Progressive: 1 candidate
  Socialist Party USA: 1 candidate
  Unity
Independents
  Independent: 1 candidate
  Non Affiliated: 15 candidates
  Nonpartisan: 2 candidates
  Petition: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Scattering: 3 candidates
  Write-in: 25 candidates
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
  Alaska Department of Administration - Political Offices Commission - APOC
  Alaska Division of Elections
  Alaska Public Offices Commission
Legislature   Links to State Legislatures
  Alaska Legislature
Democratic
  Alaska's Democratic Legislators
Republican
  Republican Party of Alaska
Third Party
  Alaska Constitution Party
  Alaska Constitution Party
  Alaska Libertarian Party
  Alaskan Independence Party
  Green Party of Alaska 11 January 2021: Green Party National Committee decertifies the Alaska Green Party due to the Alaska affiliate's declining to place the Green Party of the United States presidential nominees on the Alaska ballot.
  Justice Party of Alaska
  The Unity Party of Alaska
  The Unity Party of Alaska
Media & others
  alaskapublic.org - APRN - Alaska Public Telecommunications -Anchorage
  Anchorage Daily News
  Homer Tribune - Homer
  Juneau Empire
  Ketchikan Daily News
  Kodiak Daily Mirror
  KTUU TV - NBC - Anchorage
  KUAC FM - NPR/PBS - Fairbanks
  Nome Nugget
  Petersburg Pilot
  Politics1.com - Alaska
  The Alaska Star - Eagle River
  The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman - Wasilla
  The Peninsula Clarion - Kenai

 


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