We didn’t win everything we wanted to win, but APEA-supported candidates and ballot measures did win in every borough where we made endorsements and when all was said and done, we batted .750 on election night.

Winners included John Davies (above), who was elected to the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly by an overwhelming margin.

Kenai Peninsula Borough mayoral candidate Mike Navarre was easily the top vote-getter and will face the 2nd-place finisher, whom he bested by a 39%–24% spread, in the borough’s October 25 run-off.

In the Mat-Su Valley, both of the ballot initiatives we endorsed—Proposition 2 (transportation bond) and Proposition 3 (education/capital improvement bond)—won by wide margins.

In Juneau, Jesse Kiehl claimed an assembly seat by a better than 2–1 margin, while Loren Jones’s race—with the vote totals currently separated by 53 ballots, and the absentees yet to be counted—has not been called.

Sally Saddler, meanwhile, won a landslide victory for the Juneau School Board and write-in candidate O’Brien also appears to have won.

In Ketchikan, Dave Kiffer won the mayor’s race by a whopping 1,569–194 vote margin, and Michael Painter won a seat on the borough assembly.

A big thank you and congratulations to all of our activists across the state who gave of their time, expertise and energy in order to help bring these victories home!