New Anchorage Assembly in the works as voters drop off ballots on final election day

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Early results showed incumbents leading in two Anchorage Assembly races but new faces in four other seats.

The Anchorage Assembly was expected to see the shift after six seats went up for grabs in this year’s municipal election.

Four members of the Assembly are not running for re-election, which means that a third of the group is guaranteed to be different come next term.

Early unofficial results indicate that the incumbent candidates Kameron Perez Verdia and Daniel Volland will likely keep their seats. Volland has 56% of the vote in District 1 (North Anchorage) and Perez-Verdia has 60.58% of the vote in District 3 (West Anchorage).

In the other four districts results are as follows:

• District 1 - Seat L
  • Daniel Volland leads with 56.41%
  • Daniel George has 29.43%
  • Nicholas Danger has 8.49%
• District 2 - Seat A
  • Jared Goecker leads with 49.92%
  • Kyle Walker has 36.98%
  • David Littleton has 6.51%
• District 3 - Seat D
  • Kameron Perez Verdia has 60.58%
  • Amie Steen has 20.29%
  • Jonathan Duckworth has 11.43%
• District 4 -Seat F
  • Erin Baldwin Day leads with 59.79%
  • Don Smith has 33.91%
• District 5 - Seat H
  • Yarrow Silvers leads with 47.82%
  • Angela Frank has 21.30%
  • John Stiegele has 20.85%
• District 6 - Seat J
  • Keith McCormick leads with 82.50%
  • Darin Colbry has 7.59%

“It’s always interesting,” Assembly Chair Chris Constant said last week. “I’ve met with a few of the folks who I think are probably going to win their races just to start the conversation. And you know this, it’s an honorable job and I look forward to serving with honorable people to do the work of the city.”

Constant’s seat is not one of the six on this year’s ballot so he will be returning.

The two incumbents running for re-election are Volland and Perez-Verdia.

The four members who are not running again are Vice Chair Meg Zaletel, Karen Bronga, Mark Littlefield, and Randy Sulte.

How the six races turn out could affect the balance of power in the municipality — if voters choose more conservative candidates, it could have an impact on current Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s agenda.

Constant said that he does not believe the change will have much of an impact on that agenda, specifically regarding hot-button issues like homelessness.

“I don’t know that this Assembly election is going to have much impact on the direction of the city in terms of homelessness or outward migration,” Constant said. “I think that no matter who is elected, we have a very competent mayor in office now; and when you have a competent mayor, it’s the mayor who sets the policy and the Assembly will update the policy, we’ll amend the policy.”

Constant said a larger priority for the body will be addressing issues of finance and revenue.

“It’s the administration that’s been working really hard with members of the Assembly to tackle this issue in an ongoing way,” Constant said. “I think the bigger concerns that we face right now are uncertainty from the federal government and, you know, ongoing financial challenges with the state. But we have strong partners with our friends in the state legislature, so I think we’ll be weathering the storm.”

After casting his ballot at the Loussac Library Voting Center on Tuesday, Anchorage voter Peter Bucinski said homelessness is one of the topics he was concerned about when voting.

“I’ve lived in Anchorage since the early 70s, and I’ve seen the decline,” Bucinski said. “And the way it is now compared to the way it was, even in the 80s is, you know, a far cry. So you know, we have to clean up the city.

“There is a lot of homeless problems that we have, and I’d be here for a long time, but we really need to clean up this town. I always appreciate the opportunity to be able to vote.”

This story has been updated with new election results.

Editor’s note: Voting percentages vary in some races due to some voters not marking everything on their ballot, according to Anchorage election officials. This explains why some races do not show percentages adding up to 100%.

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