2024 Anchorage municipal election

The election certification marks the beginning of a one-month transition period between mayoral administrations as Mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance prepares to take office July 1.

“Curing” ballots won’t change the outcome of the runoff at this point, but it will make it less likely for voters to have signature issues in future elections.

Mayor Dave Bronson said he had called to congratulate former Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance, calling the campaign “long and hard-fought.”

LaFrance’s campaign said it’s “statistically impossible” for incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson to win the vote count.

LaFrance was leading Bronson by 5,487 votes in the latest round of preliminary election results.

Election officials had tallied 11,311 more ballots since Wednesday, for a total of 71,097 ballots counted so far.

Election officials had received and sorted a total of 70,401 ballot packages as of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Former Assembly chair LaFrance received 55% of the vote and had a 10-point lead over Mayor Bronson in early results posted Tuesday.

Tuesday is the last day to send in ballots or vote in person. Preliminary results are expected after 8 p.m.

Both the Bronson and LaFrance campaigns are trying to lure the roughly 28% of Anchorage voters who voted for one of the other eight candidates in the April regular election.

As of Thursday evening, more than 35,500 ballots had already arrived at the Anchorage election center.

LaFrance brought in more donations from individual donors, and is spending down those funds more aggressively than Bronson’s campaign is, as the May 14 deadline to vote approaches.

The charges stem from a March incident involving campaign signs for incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson. It’s part of what candidates say is a general uptick in damage to their election signs.

Incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson is attempting to sway voters by leaning into Suzanne LaFrance’s association with the Assembly.

Former Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance has a sizable advantage in the amount of money being spent by independent expenditure groups in support of her mayoral candidacy.

Alaska Public Media and the Anchorage Daily News are co-hosting a mayoral runoff debate between Suzanne LaFrance and Dave Bronson. The last day to vote in the runoff election is Tuesday, May 14.

Here’s what the candidates had to say about their priorities and many of the issues Anchorage voters said they care about most.

Voters can expect ballot packages in their mailboxes by May 7 or sooner, according to the clerk’s office. The last day to submit ballots in the runoff election is May 14.

In campaign messaging to voters and during debates, LaFrance and Bronson have promised to lead the city in starkly different ways.

The Assembly on Tuesday certified the results of the April regular city election.

John Snelson, chief of code enforcement for the municipality, said the incident was not politically motivated.

Ballots in the runoff race are scheduled to be mailed to voters on April 30. The final day to vote is May 14, according to the city’s election calendar.

Bill Popp, a longtime economic development executive, garnered nearly 17% of votes in the election.

Ballot packages for the mayoral runoff election are scheduled to be mailed on April 30, with the final day to vote on May 14.

The Anchorage election center by Friday had counted 67,119 of 72,589 received ballots. Early results continue to show Bronson and LaFrance headed to a runoff and school board incumbents holding their seats.