Jim Cottrell (Alaska)
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2027
Jim Cottrell is a member of the Upper Grover LRSA in Alaska, representing Seat A. Cottrell's current term ends in 2027.
Cottrell ran for re-election to the Upper Grover LRSA to represent Seat A in Alaska. Cottrell won in the general election on April 2, 2024.
2022 battleground election
Eleven candidates ran in a top-four primary for governor of Alaska on August 16, 2022. Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) ran for re-election. The four candidates to advance from the primary were: Dunleavy with 40.7% of the vote, Bill Walker (Independent) with 22.7%, Les Gara (D) with 22.7%, and Charlie Pierce (R) with 6.7%.
This was the first use of the top-four primary system for governor of Alaska after voters approved its use in November 2020. All candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run in a single primary election. The four candidates to receive the most votes advanced to the general election. The four-candidate general election used ranked-choice voting. To learn more about the election system, click here.
The 11 candidates included six Republicans, one Democrat, one Libertarian, and three independents. Among them were the following candidates with noteworthy endorsements:
- Dunleavy, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump (R);[1]
- Les Gara (D), who was endorsed by Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates;[2]
- Charlie Pierce (R), who was co-endorsed along with Dunleavy by the Republican Party of Alaska;[3]
- and former Gov. Bill Walker (I), who was endorsed by the Alaska AFL-CIO.[4]
Also running in the primary were Jim Cottrell (R), David Haeg (R), John Howe (Alaskan Independence), Christopher Kurka (R), William Nemec II (I), William Toien (L), and Bruce Walden (R).
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver predicted that multiple Republicans would advance to the general election. He wrote: "In Alaska’s House, Senate and gubernatorial races, it’s fairly likely that we’ll end up with one Democratic candidate but two or three Republican candidates following the Aug. 16 primaries. If the Republican vote is divided two or three ways, it may well be that the Democrat initially receives the plurality of the vote. However, this lead is unlikely to survive the instant-runoff process assuming voters for one Republican rank the other Republicans ahead of any Democrat."[5]
Three race forecasting outlets rated the general election as Likely or Solid Republican. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) received 52.8% of the vote in Alaska, while Joe Biden (D) received 42.8%.
According to the Associated Press, no Alaska governor has been re-elected since Tony Knowles (D) in 1998. Sean Parnell (R), who became governor in 2009 following the resignation of Sarah Palin (R), won a full term in 2010 but lost his re-election bid in 2014.[6]
In Alaska, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run together on a joint ticket. Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer (R) did not run for re-election.
Les Gara (D) completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. To read those survey responses, click here.
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in Anchorage, Alaska (2024)
General election
General election for Upper Grover LRSA Seat A
Incumbent Jim Cottrell won election in the general election for Upper Grover LRSA Seat A on April 2, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Cottrell (Nonpartisan) | 94.9 | 37 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 5.1 | 2 | ||
| Total votes: 39 | ||||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Cottrell in this election.
2022
See also: Alaska gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Alaska
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Mike Dunleavy in round 1 .
| Total votes: 263,752 |
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Alaska
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Alaska on August 16, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mike Dunleavy (R) | 40.4 | 76,534 | |
| ✔ | Les Gara (D) | 23.1 | 43,660 | |
| ✔ | Bill Walker (Independent) | 22.8 | 43,111 | |
| ✔ | Charlie Pierce (R) | 6.6 | 12,458 | |
| Christopher Kurka (R) | 3.9 | 7,307 | ||
| John Howe (Alaskan Independence Party) | 0.9 | 1,702 | ||
| Bruce Walden (R) | 0.9 | 1,661 | ||
| William Toien (L) | 0.7 | 1,381 | ||
| David Haeg (R) | 0.6 | 1,139 | ||
| William Nemec II (Independent) | 0.2 | 347 | |
| Total votes: 189,300 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jim Cottrell (R)
Polls
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Polls are conducted with a variety of methodologies and have margins of error or credibility intervals.[7] The Pew Research Center wrote, "A margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level means that if we fielded the same survey 100 times, we would expect the result to be within 3 percentage points of the true population value 95 of those times."[8] For tips on reading polls from FiveThirtyEight, click here. For tips from Pew, click here.
Below we provide results for polls that are included in polling aggregation from FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics, when available. Click here to read about FiveThirtyEight's criteria for including polls in its aggregation. We only report polls for which we can find a margin of error or credibility interval.
Campaign finance
Candidates in this election submitted campaign finance reports to the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Click here to access those reports.
Satellite spending
Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[9][10][11]
If available, this section includes links to online resources tracking satellite spending in this election. To notify us of a resource to add, email us.
Satellite groups in this election submitted independent expenditure reports to the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Click here to access those reports.
Endorsements
This section lists noteworthy endorsements issued in this election, including those made by high-profile individuals and organizations, cross-party endorsements, and endorsements made by newspaper editorial boards. It also includes a bulleted list of links to official lists of endorsements for any candidates who published that information on their campaign websites. Please note that this list is not exhaustive. If you are aware of endorsements that should be included, please click here.
| Top-four primary endorsements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endorser | ||||
| Government officials | ||||
| State Sen. Lora Reinbold (R) source | ✔ | |||
| State Rep. Andrew Josephson (D) source | ✔ | |||
| State Rep. Ivy Spohnholz (D) source | ✔ | |||
| State Rep. Adam Wool (D) source | ✔ | |||
| Individuals | ||||
| Frmr. state Sen. Catherine Giessel source | ✔ | |||
| Frmr. President Donald Trump source | ✔ | |||
| Organizations | ||||
| Alaska AFL-CIO source | ✔ | |||
| Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates source | ✔ | |||
| Republican Party of Alaska source 1 source 2 | ✔ | ✔ | ||
2021
See also: City elections in Anchorage, Alaska (2021)
General election
General election for Upper Grover LRSA Seat A
Incumbent Jim Cottrell won election in the general election for Upper Grover LRSA Seat A on April 6, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jim Cottrell (Nonpartisan) | 95.3 | 41 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 4.7 | 2 | ||
| Total votes: 43 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jim Cottrell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Jim Cottrell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2021
Jim Cottrell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ CNN, "Alaska Gov. Dunleavy accepts Trump endorsement conditioned upon him not endorsing Sen. Murkowski in 2022," December 31, 2021
- ↑ Planned Parenthood Action, "Planned Parenthood Endorses Les Gara for Governor, Jessica Cook for Lt. Governor," June 30, 2022
- ↑ KINY, "Charlie Pierce recieves Republican endorsement in governor's race," April 25, 2022
- ↑ Alaska Beacon, "Alaska AFL-CIO endorses Walker, Murkowski and Peltola," June 23, 2022
- ↑ FiveThirtyEight, "Why Republicans Are Favored To Win The House, But Not The Senate," June 30, 2022
- ↑ Associated Press, "Alaska governor picks Nancy Dahlstrom as running mate," May 23, 2022
- ↑ For more information on the difference between margins of error and credibility intervals, see explanations from the American Association for Public Opinion Research and Ipsos.
- ↑ Pew Research Center, "5 key things to know about the margin of error in election polls," September 8, 2016
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021
