Race profile

Alaska

Governor race — AK

The question

Alaska: who wins this toss-up?

Current forecast

Republican

Toss-up

Probability
67%
Mean margin (pts)
5.3
P(close race)
55%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Republican 51.1%

    Dave Bronson

  • Democrat 48.5%

    Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. OhioDemocrat56 %3.2 pt margin
  2. FloridaRepublican55 %3.2 pt margin
  3. NevadaDemocrat61 %3.5 pt margin

In context

How this race stacks up

Republican Democrat Other
HereAlaska 51.1%48.5%0.4%
National averageUnited States 48.2% +3.0 49.1% −0.7 2.7% −2.3

Nationwide averages computed across the 36 state races (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

District polls

Polls in this district

7 polls

Pollster Field dates Sample Pop. Topline Source
Alaska Survey Research Jun 30 – Jul 1 LV
Democrat 51 Republican 49
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Alaska Survey Research 16–Apr 19 LV
Republican 59 Democrat 41
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Lake Research Partners 5–Feb 11 600 LV
Democrat 38 Republican 37
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Data For Progress 17–Oct 23 582 LV
Republican 43 Democrat 41
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Alaska Survey Research 10–Oct 14 1,748 LV
Republican 59 Democrat 41
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Data For Progress 21–Jul 27 491 LV
Democrat 55 Republican 45
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Data For Progress Feb 28 – Mar 7 1,008 LV
Democrat 44 Republican 34
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District-level polls, topline only. Vote-Scope reports each published poll as the pollster released it; figures are not the Vote-Scope projection.

Editorial read

Alaska elected a governor with the Republicans at its previous election, by 31 points. The Vote-Scope model projects the Republicans ahead at 51% vote share, against 48% for the Democrats, and the race could swing.

Sitting governor

Mike Dunleavy

Party Republican

Who's running

The candidates

Declared and on-ballot candidates for the upcoming election.

  • Democrat Open seat

    Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins

  • Republican Open seat

    Dave Bronson

Previous election · 2022

Won by
Republican
Margin
30.6 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
-25.3 pts
Last model run
Cycle
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