List of United States Senate elections in Alaska
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United States Senate elections in Alaska occur when voters in the U.S. state of Alaska select an individual to represent the state in the United States Senate in either of the state's two seats allotted by the Constitution. Regularly scheduled general elections occur on Election Day, coinciding with various other federal, statewide, and local races.
Each state is allotted two U.S. Senators elected to staggered six-year terms, which were originally selected by the state legislature. The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Alaska's admission to the Union in 1959, the state was assigned a Class 2 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1958. Since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, U.S. Senators are elected directly by the voters of each state. Special elections may be held to fill mid-term vacancies to elect an individual to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
The list below contains results from all U.S. Senate elections held in Alaska, sorted by year. The next scheduled election for the Class 2 seat is in 2026, while the Class 3 seat will hold its next election in 2028.
List of recent elections[edit]
Class 2[edit]
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1958 | Bob Bartlett | Democratic | 40,939 | 83.83% | R. E. Robertson | Republican | 7,299 | 14.95% | 599 | 1.23% | [1] | ||
| 1960 | Bob Bartlett | Democratic | 38,041 | 63.42% | Lee McKinley | Republican | 21,937 | 36.58% | [2] | ||||
| 1966 | Bob Bartlett | Democratic | 49,289 | 75.54% | Lee McKinley | Republican | 15,961 | 24.46% | [3] | ||||
| 1970 (sp) | Ted Stevens | Republican | 47,908 | 59.61% | Wendell P. Kay | Democratic | 32,456 | 40.39% | [4] | ||||
| 1972 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 74,216 | 77.30% | Gene Guess | Democratic | 21,791 | 22.70% | [5] | ||||
| 1978 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 92,783 | 75.59% | Donald Hobbs | Democratic | 29,574 | 24.09% | 384 | 0.31% | [6] | ||
| 1984 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 146,919 | 71.17% | John Havelock | Democratic | 58,804 | 28.49% | 715 | 0.35% | [7] | ||
| 1990 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 125,806 | 66.23% | Michael Beasley | Democratic | 61,152 | 32.19% | 2,999 | 1.58% | [8] | ||
| 1996 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 177,893 | 76.70% | Jed Whittaker | Green | 29,037 | 12.52% | 1,009 | 0.44% | [9] | ||
| Theresa Obermeyer | Democratic | 23,977 | 10.34% | ||||||||||
| 2002 | Ted Stevens | Republican | 179,438 | 78.17% | Frank Vondersaar | Democratic | 24,133 | 10.51% | 9,369 | 4.08% | [10] | ||
| Jim Sykes | Green | 16,608 | 7.24% | ||||||||||
| 2008 | Mark Begich | Democratic | 151,767 | 47.77% | Ted Stevens | Republican | 147,814 | 46.52% | 18,142 | 5.71% | [11] | ||
| 2014 | Dan Sullivan | Republican | 135,445 | 47.96% | Mark Begich | Democratic | 129,431 | 45.83% | 17,524 | 6.21% | [12] | ||
| 2020 | Dan Sullivan | Republican | 191,112 | 53.90% | Al Gross | Independent[a] | 146,068 | 41.19% | 17,407 | 4.91% | [13] | ||
- Borough and census area results of Class 2 elections since 2008
Class 3[edit]
| Year | Winner | Runner(s)-up | Others | Ref | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 1958 | Ernest Gruening | Democratic | 26,045 | 52.61% | Mike Stepovich | Republican | 23,464 | 47.39% | [1] | ||||
| 1962 | Ernest Gruening | Democratic | 33,827 | 58.14% | Ted Stevens | Republican | 24,354 | 41.86% | [14] | ||||
| 1968 | Mike Gravel | Democratic | 36,527 | 45.13% | Elmer E. Rasmuson | Republican | 30,286 | 37.42% | [15] | ||||
| Ernest Gruening | Write-in | 14,118 | 17.44% | ||||||||||
| 1974 | Mike Gravel | Democratic | 54,361 | 58.28% | C. R. Lewis | Republican | 38,914 | 41.72% | [16] | ||||
| 1980 | Frank Murkowski | Republican | 84,159 | 53.69% | Clark Gruening | Democratic | 72,007 | 45.93% | 596 | 0.38% | [17] | ||
| 1986 | Frank Murkowski | Republican | 97,674 | 54.02% | Glenn Olds | Democratic | 79,727 | 44.10% | 3,400 | 1.88% | [18] | ||
| 1992 | Frank Murkowski | Republican | 127,163 | 53.05% | Tony Smith | Democratic | 92,065 | 38.41% | 467 | 0.19% | [19] | ||
| Mary Jordan | Green | 20,019 | 8.35% | ||||||||||
| 1998 | Frank Murkowski | Republican | 165,227 | 74.49% | Joseph Sonneman | Democratic | 43,743 | 19.72% | 12,837 | 5.79% | [20] | ||
| 2004 | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 149,773 | 48.58% | Tony Knowles | Democratic | 140,424 | 45.55% | 18,118 | 5.88% | [21] | ||
| 2010 | Lisa Murkowski | Write-in | 92,931 | 36.08% | Joe Miller | Republican | 90,839 | 35.27% | 13,723 | 5.33% | [22] | ||
| Scott McAdams | Democratic | 60,045 | 23.32% | ||||||||||
| 2016 | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 138,149 | 44.36% | Joe Miller | Libertarian | 90,825 | 29.16% | 5,073 | 1.63% | [23] | ||
| Margaret Stock | Independent | 41,194 | 13.23% | ||||||||||
| Ray Metcalfe | Democratic | 36,200 | 11.62% | ||||||||||
| 2022[b] | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 136,330 | 53.70% | Kelly Tshibaka | Republican | 117,534 | 46.30% | [24] | ||||
- Borough and census area results of Class 3 elections since 2004
See also[edit]
- List of United States senators from Alaska
- List of United States presidential elections in Alaska
- Elections in Alaska
Notes[edit]
- ^ Nominated by the Democratic Party.
- ^ Election held using instant-runoff voting; results from the maximum round are shown.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1958" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 8, 1960" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1966" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1970" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1972" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1978" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1984" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1990" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1996" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2002" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2008" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2014" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2020" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1962" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1974" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1986" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1992" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 1998" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2004" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2010" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "Federal Elections 2016" (PDF). Federal Election Commission.
- ^ "State of Alaska 2022 GENERAL ELECTION Election Summary Report" (PDF). Alaska Division of Elections. November 30, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
