Republicans make up ground on second day of in-person voting: State of the Race

Alaskans cast another 3,866 early in-person votes on Tuesday, according to voting numbers released by the Alaska Division of Elections this morning, bringing the total early in-person vote to 7,592.

In today’s update, Republicans made up ground statewide and now hold a slight lead over Democrats in terms of number of early in-person votes. The absentee voting numbers, where Democrats hold a wide lead, are only updated twice a week and have not been updated since yesterday’s post.

With strong showings in the Mat-Su Valley districts, the total number of Republican voters casting early in-person votes now stands at 1,850 while Democrats sit at 1,826.

Independent voters—those who identify as undeclared or nonpartisan voters—still account for the largest group of voters with a total of 3,682 votes cast so far.

Early in-person voting opened on Monday at dozens of locations throughout the state but a vast majority of those locations are considered to be early in-person absentee voting, which are not accounted for in these numbers and will not be counted until a week after election day along with by-mail absentee votes.

The numbers represented in this post come only from the 10 voting locations that offer early in-person voting–all but one of which are in urban communities. Ballots cast at these locations through Oct. 29 will be counted on election night. In 2016, 39,242 ballots were cast in this manner.

Before we get to the charts covering Tuesday’s voting and the overall early in-person voting, here’s a few takeaways we have from today’s numbers:

• Juneau’s House Districts 34 and 33 were the busiest in the state on Tuesday (the State Office Building location was closed on Monday in observance of Alaska Day) with a combined 670 votes cast. Democrats have a 2:1 advantage over Republicans in HD 34 (Rep. Andi Story v. Ed King) and a 5:1 advantage in the heavily blue HD 33. Again, independents still hold the overall majority in these districts (as is the case in just about every district in the state).
• The first early in-person votes were cast on Tuesday for House Districts 36 and 37. They were the only districts that registered zero votes on the first day of voting. HD 37 has four early votes (four independent votes) and HD 36 has one vote cast by an undeclared voter.
• After Juneau’s House District 34, it’s Palmer’s House District 11 that has the second-highest turnout so far with a grand total of 550 votes cast. There, Republicans have cast 161 votes, Democrats have cast 86 and independents have cast 283 votes.

Total early in-person voting as of Oct. 21, 2020

District	Total Votes	R	D	U	N	A	Other
Statewide	7,592	1,850	1,826	2,234	1,448	166	68
1	169	26	47	65	25	5	1
2	95	24	21	40	8	2	0
3	113	40	12	41	17	1	2
4	350	58	129	97	60	4	2
5	257	51	57	88	52	5	4
6	72	23	12	21	14	2	0
7	421	166	51	130	62	10	2
8	324	128	34	95	61	4	2
9	232	80	24	81	41	3	3
10	281	117	33	81	41	6	3
11	550	161	86	168	115	11	9
12	314	121	42	75	64	7	5
13	60	19	11	22	8	0	0
14	69	25	13	15	14	1	1
15	90	16	35	26	12	1	0
16	185	36	64	55	29	1	0
17	208	33	70	48	42	13	2
18	287	49	86	84	56	11	1
19	92	10	35	28	16	1	2
20	363	52	132	88	79	10	2
21	301	51	87	92	67	3	1
22	169	50	39	45	29	5	1
23	206	48	49	55	43	7	4
24	285	70	55	93	56	7	4
25	183	43	47	52	33	5	3
26	224	79	44	60	35	5	1
27	208	49	67	61	25	6	0
28	326	87	66	97	65	6	5
29	9	2	4	0	2	1	0
30	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
31	7	3	0	0	1	3	0
32	6	2	1	2	1	0	0
33	444	34	166	126	110	3	5
34	581	87	176	161	143	11	3
35	10	0	2	4	3	1	0
36	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
37	4	0	0	2	2	0	0
38	4	0	1	2	1	0	0
39	90	10	28	32	16	4	0
40	1	0	0	0	0	1	0

Early in-person voting for just Oct. 20, 2020

District	Total Votes	R	D	U	N	A	Other
Statewide	3,866	962	882	1,149	749	88	36
1	89	11	28	34	12	3	1
2	51	11	16	19	4	1	0
3	46	17	5	16	5	1	2
4	188	28	66	64	27	1	2
5	107	24	23	35	20	3	2
6	33	11	5	10	7	0	0
7	210	85	25	58	36	5	1
8	158	66	10	42	36	3	1
9	107	40	11	36	16	3	1
10	137	64	15	34	19	3	2
11	263	72	33	91	55	7	5
12	154	58	22	38	30	3	3
13	32	11	4	13	4	0	0
14	22	9	3	4	6	0	0
15	47	7	16	13	11	0	0
16	86	19	27	24	16	0	0
17	98	15	33	25	18	7	0
18	141	28	38	40	30	5	0
19	51	5	23	14	8	0	1
20	156	28	52	32	40	3	1
21	132	24	35	37	33	2	1
22	81	20	20	27	11	3	0
23	99	20	27	29	20	3	0
24	151	44	23	55	24	3	2
25	98	30	23	26	14	3	2
26	119	43	20	33	21	1	1
27	113	32	26	33	18	4	0
28	171	50	28	61	27	2	3
29	6	1	3	0	1	1	0
30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	4	0	0	0	1	3	0
32	4	1	1	1	1	0	0
33	323	26	120	88	83	2	4
34	347	60	94	98	85	9	1
35	4	0	0	2	1	1	0
36	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
37	4	0	0	2	2	0	0
38	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
39	32	2	7	13	7	3	0
40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0