Early Anchorage municipal election results indicate a tight race for Assembly member John Weddleton while other incumbents are leading challengers:
Election official Bonnie Jack places a tray of unopened ballot return envelopes in"the cage" inside the Election Center during the regular municipal election on Election Day, Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
Sulte said he felt “cautiously optimistic” after seeing Tuesday night’s results, but said that it is still too close to call. Incumbents and their supporters said Tuesday that the results show Anchorage voters are largely rejecting the campaign messaging of the conservative challengers. Anchorage voters also were so far narrowly approving the school district’s $111 million bond by just over 50%, but that could change as more ballots are counted. Four of the city’s five bond packages totaling $45.6 million were passing with stronger margins, but approval of the city’s areawide facilities capital improvements bond package was also narrow with just over 50% of the vote.
“Is it going to stay or go more progressive or is it going to return more to a middle approach, conservative approach?” said Craig Campbell, vice chair of the Alaska Republican Party, said in a recent interview. “The mayor and the Assembly, obviously – we’ve all seen – have different philosophies of what government should be like. So I think both sides are trying to mobilize their position to determine which direction Anchorage is going to go.
If Tuesday’s preliminary results hold, the Assembly will retain enough moderates and progressives to override vetoes.
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