About Alaska State House D-5
Alaska House District 5 is the state House seat for Kodiak Archipelago, Prince William Sound and Seward. It takes in Kodiak Island villages, Afognak, Barren and Trinity islands and Cordova. Its representative serves a two-year term, and it pairs with House District 6 to form Senate District C.
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Simpler and Stutes lead Kodiak-area races, but neither is decided
Kathy Simpler leads Sheldon Prout by 431 votes in the race for the open Kodiak, Cordova and Seward House seat, but the Alaska Division of Elections has counted only 77 absentee and early ballots from the district so far.
In the Senate race covering the same area and part of the Kenai Peninsula, Rep. Louise Stutes of Kodiak leads a three-candidate field but doesn't have a majority. The results from Tuesday's election are unofficial, and neither race is decided.
Simpler, a nonpartisan, has 2,160 votes, or 55%, to 1,729, or 44%, for Prout, a Republican, with all 12 precincts reported in House District 5. She took 61% against Prout in the August primary. The seat is open because Stutes is running for Senate.
The district's count so far includes 3,951 ballots cast at polling places, plus 45 absentee and 32 early ballots. For comparison, the division counted 2,120 absentee, early and questioned ballots in the district in the 2022 general election and 3,570 in 2024. Its report doesn't say how many ballots are still out.
In the Senate District C race, Stutes has 5,136 votes, or 48%. Heath Smith of Homer has 4,198, or 39%, and Carrie Harris of Anchor Point has 1,242, or 12%. All three are registered Republicans.
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