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All 40 Alaska House seats on the Nov. 3 ballot after five straight cycles of bipartisan coalition control


Elections for all 40 seats in the Alaska House of Representatives will be held on November 3, 2026.

Alaska legislators have formed bipartisan governing coalitions after every election since 2016. Although Republicans won a majority of seats in all five of those elections, the only bipartisan coalition that was majority-Republican was the one formed after the 2022 elections. The coalition that formed after the 2024 elections included all 14 Democrats and all five independents as well as two of 21 Republicans.

Ballotpedia identified 15 of the 40 House districts as battlegrounds. Twelve of those districts have incumbents in the Republican minority caucus. The incumbents in the other three districts are members of the governing coalition. All but two incumbents in battleground districts are running for re-election. The 15 battleground districts include five where a challenger has outraised the incumbent and two where the incumbent placed second in the top-four primary.

The general election will use ranked-choice voting, a system where voters may rank candidates on their ballots by preference rather than vote for a single candidate. All candidates running for a given legislative seat participated in the same primary regardless of their partisan affiliation. The top four finishers advanced to the general election. General election voters may vote for a single candidate or rank up to four candidates in preference order. Alaska voters approved the use of top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting in general elections via a 2020 ballot measure.

The Alaska House elections could change the state's trifecta status. Alaska currently has a divided government, with neither party holding a trifecta. Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) is a Republican. Both legislative chambers have a numerical Republican majority. Bipartisan coalitions control both chambers. In addition to all 40 seats in the state house, elections are also being held for governor and 10 of 20 seats in the state senate. If one party wins all three elections, that party will gain a trifecta. There are 23 Republican trifectas and 16 Democratic trifectas nationwide.