General elections for the Alaska state Senate will take place on Nov. 5, 2024.

Ten of the chamber’s 20 seats are up for election. Senators serve four-year terms, and half of the Senate is up for election every two years. Of the seats up for election in 2024, Democrats hold five and Republicans hold five. One Republican incumbent is retiring, and no incumbents were defeated in the primaries.

Nine Democrats and 11 Republicans represent the entire Senate. Following the 2022 elections, all nine Democrats and eight Republicans formed a bipartisan governing coalition. In 2020, Alaska voters approved a ballot measure that implemented a top-four primary system and ranked-choice voting general elections in the state. To read more about the Senate’s coalition and the state’s voting system, click here.

According to the Alaska Beacon, “a Senate bipartisan majority is expected to continue past this election” due to the number of coalition members who aren’t up for re-election, are running unopposed, or won their primaries by a large margin of victory. The outlet reported that “Republicans could still cut the supermajority’s size, which would hobble it on hotly contested issues.”

Of the 10 seats up for election, Ballotpedia identified six battleground districts. Democrats represent two of these districts and Republicans represent four. Incumbents are running in all of these districts. Because of Alaska’s top-four primary system, incumbents can face challengers from any party.

Alaska is one of 23 states that has a divided government, since Republicans control the governorship while bipartisan governing coalitions control both chambers of the legislature. The outcome of the Senate elections alone cannot change Alaska’s trifecta status because a coalition also controls the Alaska House of Representatives. If Republicans in both legislative chambers win enough seats to govern without a coalition, the state could become a Republican trifecta. To read more on potential new trifectas in the 2024 elections, click here.

Alaska is one of 44 states holding regular legislative elections across 85 of 99 state legislative chambers in 2024. The primaries were held on August 20, 2024.