Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins pulled further ahead in Alaska’s tight gubernatorial race on Monday after election officials processed roughly 5,000 new ballots, bringing the total counted statewide to just over 220,000.
With more than 49.4% of the vote tallied so far, the former lawmaker from Sitka leads a field of three Republican candidates aiming to succeed Governor Mike Dunleavy, who is termed out from seeking reelection after eight years in office. Businesswoman Bernadette Wilson holds 28.8% of the vote, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson sits at 14%, and former Attorney General Treg Taylor trails at 7.4%.
While Alaska utilizes a ranked-choice voting system that allows supporters of trailing candidates to redistribute their votes, preliminary ballot data indicates Wilson did not secure enough secondary support to surpass Kreiss-Tomkins. Neither candidate has claimed victory or conceded the race as tens of thousands of ballots remain uncounted.
State election officials are continuing their tallies this week. Alaska’s next governor is scheduled to take the oath of office on December 7, less than three weeks after ballot-counting concludes.
Speaking to supporters at an election night party at The Broken Blender in downtown Anchorage, Kreiss-Tomkins acknowledged the schedule. Ahead of the vote, he noted that the responsible approach involves planning a transition immediately rather than waiting for a formal declaration.
Meanwhile, the ongoing ballot processing also brought clarity to the fate of Ballot Measure 2. Current returns show 52.3% of voters rejecting the measure, which sought to dismantle the state’s open primaries and ranked-choice general election framework. At the same time, a separate initiative affirming an existing requirement that Alaska voters be U.S. citizens is leading comfortably with 69.4% of the vote.
Additional updates on the remaining uncounted ballots are expected later this week.
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