Election Name: | 2024 Anchorage mayoral election |
Flag Image: | Flag of Anchorage, Alaska.svg |
Ongoing: | no |
Type: | mayoral |
Previous Election: | 2021 Anchorage mayoral election |
Previous Year: | 2021 |
Election Date: | April 2, 2024 (first round) May 14, 2024 (runoff) |
Next Election: | 2027 Anchorage mayoral election |
Next Year: | 2027 |
1Blank: | General election |
2Blank: | Runoff |
Image1: | Assembly Member Suzanne LaFrance (cropped).jpg |
Candidate1: | Suzanne LaFrance |
Color1: | c0c0c0 |
1Data1: | 25,904 36.23% |
2Data1: | 42,597 53.54% |
Candidate2: | Dave Bronson |
Color2: | c0c0c0 |
1Data2: | 25,431 35.57% |
2Data2: | 36,961 46.46% |
Image4: | 3x4.svg |
Candidate4: | Bill Popp |
Color4: | c0c0c0 |
1Data4: | 11,968 16.74% |
2Data4: | Eliminated |
Image5: | Chris Tuck at House press availability, January 18, 2017 (cropped).png |
Candidate5: | Chris Tuck |
Color5: | c0c0c0 |
1Data5: | 5,650 7.90% |
2Data5: | Eliminated |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Dave Bronson |
Before Party: | Alaska Republican Party |
After Election: | Suzanne LaFrance |
After Party: | Independent (US) |
The 2024 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 2, 2024, with a runoff election on May 14 because no candidate received more than 45% of the vote in the first round. It elected the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Incumbent Republican mayor Dave Bronson ran for re-election to a second term in office.
Bronson and former Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance advanced to the runoff, with LaFrance narrowly placing ahead of Bronson. Bronson's general election vote total was the lowest for an incumbent Anchorage mayor since 2009. Candidates eliminated in the general election include nonprofit executive Bill Popp and former Alaska House Majority Leader Chris Tuck. Popp endorsed LaFrance in the runoff, while Tuck remained neutral.
LaFrance prevailed in the runoff, becoming the first woman elected mayor of Anchorage.[1] Bronson is only the second mayor of Anchorage to lose re-election since it became a borough in 1975.