Alaska Elections

With their platform set and candidates for most major races in place, the Democrats face a summer of heavy campaigning in preparation for the fall.

With three months to go before the primary election, groups with a stake in the oil tax referendum are ramping up their campaigns.

The state’s Libertarian Party is not so big. Its membership has hovered around 7,000 voters since the Division of Elections began tracking their registration in the late 1990s.

The Alaska Republican Party has taken measures to prevent a takeover by libertarian and Tea Party activists.

West Anchorage Republican Lindsey Holmes will not be running for reelection to the Alaska House of Representatives.

When the Republican-led Legislature went into overtime last week, they knocked a set of citizen’s initiatives onto an already packed November ballot.