Nearly all Anchorage incumbents are holding their leads. School bonds however are now narrowly failing, and the gap has widened for the only incumbent losing his race. Assemblyman John Weddleton is 347 votes behind Randy Sulte.
-Forrest Dunbar, an Anchorage assembly member representing East Anchorage, with supporters Tuesday morning. for the Anchorage municipal election, and the Assembly and school board incumbents continue to largely hold off their conservative challengers.
This year’s municipal election saw progressive-leaning incumbents face a slate of well-funded, conservative challengers who were backed by Mayor Dave Bronson. In South Anchorage, Sulte now has a three-point lead over incumbent Weddleton. Weddleton said he’s not surprised at the narrow contest. “It kind of started with Kathy, Stephanie and myself, as rookie candidates,” he said. “We started sharing lessons learned and our mistakes on how to run a campaign.”“It’s probably a lot closer than I want, but John’s a tough competitor and we’re just hoping the results… of course, we’re optimistic they’ll come our way,” he said.While that race is still up in the air, the conservative candidate in the race to replace Eagle River member Crystal Kennedy has a sizable lead.
While candidates wait for more results to be released, Hall with the union said this year’s municipal election generated a lot of interest and money, compared to years past.
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