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2026 Alaska Governor and Lieutenant Governor — Top-Four Primary · August 18, 2026
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Alaska Division of Elections — 2026 Primary Election certified candidate list
Contest: GOVERNOR / LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Candidate on ballot: Begich, Tom
Party registration: Democrat
Status: Certified
Running mate: Julia Hnilicka
Campaign address: PO Box 140664 Anchorage, AK 99514
Phone: (907) 346-7665
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.tombegichforalaska.com
Official candidate statement: https://elections.alaska.gov/doc/oep/2026/BEGICH_TOM_Gov_Eng_06.25.26-PWeb.pdf
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PO Box 140664 Anchorage, AK 99514
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Campaign address: PO Box 140664 Anchorage, AK 99514
Phone: (907) 346-7665
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.tombegichforalaska.com
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PO Box 140664 Anchorage, AK 99514
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Alaska Division of Elections — 2026 Primary Election certified candidate list
Contest: GOVERNOR / LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Candidate on ballot: Begich, Tom
Party registration: Democrat
Status: Certified
Running mate: Julia Hnilicka
Campaign address: PO Box 140664 Anchorage, AK 99514
Phone: (907) 346-7665
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.tombegichforalaska.com
Official candidate statement: https://elections.alaska.gov/doc/oep/2026/BEGICH_TOM_Gov_Eng_06.25.26-PWeb.pdf
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Age: 65 Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska Spouse’s Name: Sarah Sledge Occupation: Small Business Owner, Former State Senator, Educator, Union Member, Musician Length of Residency in Alaska: 65 years Anchorage Juneau Steller High School, Anchorage UAA/ACC, Associate Degree Bard College, Bachelor’s Degree UAA and Oxford, Graduate Studies Alaska State Senator, 2017 – 2023 Minority Leader, 2019 – 2023 Owner, Alaska Research Associates and The Research Group Educator Nonprofit Executive
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Age: 65 Place of Birth: Anchorage, Alaska Spouse’s Name: Sarah Sledge Occupation: Small Business Owner, Former State Senator, Educator, Union Member, Musician Length of Residency in Alaska: 65 years Anchorage Juneau Steller High School, Anchorage UAA/ACC, Associate Degree Bard College, Bachelor’s Degree UAA and Oxford, Graduate Studies Alaska State Senator, 2017 – 2023 Minority Leader, 2019 – 2023 Owner, Alaska Research Associates and The Research Group Educator Nonprofit Executive
Service Organization s Membership: IBEW Local 1547 AFM Local 1000 AFSCME Local 52 retiree Education, energy affordability, community development, mentoring future generations, music
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Service Organization s Membership: IBEW Local 1547 AFM Local 1000 AFSCME Local 52 retiree Education, energy affordability, community development, mentoring future generations, music
Other (Biographical Information): Tom Begich has spent his career working across Alaska on education, economic development, public safety, and energy policy. As Senator, he built up the bipartisan coalition and led the passage of the Alaska Reads Act to help more students learn to read and succeed.
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Other (Biographical Information): Tom Begich has spent his career working across Alaska on education, economic development, public safety, and energy policy. As Senator, he built up the bipartisan coalition and led the passage of the Alaska Reads Act to help more students learn to read and succeed.
Tom is running for Governor to make Alaska a place where families can afford to stay, young people can build their futures, hard work is rewarded, and Alaska’s wealth works for Alaskans.
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Tom is running for Governor to make Alaska a place where families can afford to stay, young people can build their futures, hard work is rewarded, and Alaska’s wealth works for Alaskans.
My parents, a riverboat captain and an educator, raised me in the community of Nenana, where I am still fortunate to spend my summers. I grew up understanding the realities of life in rural Alaska: high costs, limited infrastructure, long winters, and communities that survive because people show up for one another. We know how to take care of one another.
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My parents, a riverboat captain and an educator, raised me in the community of Nenana, where I am still fortunate to spend my summers. I grew up understanding the realities of life in rural Alaska: high costs, limited infrastructure, long winters, and communities that survive because people show up for one another. We know how to take care of one another.
I was raised by parents who lived the Alaska Dream.
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I was raised by parents who lived the Alaska Dream.
I have done exactly that as a State Senator, small business owner, and local community leader. I have fought for a stronger economy, a dependable education system, and an energy plan that lowers costs for Alaskans for decades to come.
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I have done exactly that as a State Senator, small business owner, and local community leader. I have fought for a stronger economy, a dependable education system, and an energy plan that lowers costs for Alaskans for decades to come.
I spent years working in communities across Alaska — from Anchorage to Ketchikan to the Northwest Arctic and Western Alaska — long before I ever ran for office. I worked on public safety, youth programs, community planning, and economic development.
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I spent years working in communities across Alaska — from Anchorage to Ketchikan to the Northwest Arctic and Western Alaska — long before I ever ran for office. I worked on public safety, youth programs, community planning, and economic development.
The Alaska I grew up in would never accept this. The Alaska I will lead won’t either. Alaska needs leadership that promises real solutions and a clear direction. I will revive the Alaska dream.
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The Alaska I grew up in would never accept this. The Alaska I will lead won’t either. Alaska needs leadership that promises real solutions and a clear direction. I will revive the Alaska dream.
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Lower energy and heating costs through coordinated state energy planning, efficiency investment, grid modernization, local generation, and rural energy systems.
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Energy costs in Alaska are among the highest in the country, especially for heating. Families should not be paying some of the highest bills in America while living in an energy-rich state.
Stabilize public-school funding, strengthen the teacher workforce, expand early learning, and improve pathways into trades, jobs, and higher education.
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Strengthen Education
Expand affordable coverage and rural access while lowering prescription costs and growing Alaska’s healthcare workforce.
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• Expand DenaliCare to cover working Alaskans caught between Medicaid and unaffordable private plans, while reducing uncompensated ER care that drives up costs for everyone. • Negotiate lower prescription drug prices by bypassing pharmacy benefit managers and establishing a board to negotiate directly with manufacturers, cutting out middlemen who inflate what we pay at the pharmacy. • Increase telehealth access for rural Alaska by expanding broadband partnerships and tele-specialty networks so Alaskans can see a provider without a $2,000 plane ticket. Geography should not be a death sentence. • Grow our healthcare workforce from within by supporting union healthcare workers serving Alaskan communities, expanding nursing and behavioral health training at the University of Alaska, and strengthening loan repayment programs. • Improve behavioral healthcare access by expanding mental health and substance misuse services so Alaskans can access care before crises occur.
Increase affordable housing supply and use durable cold-climate construction, accessible land, and infrastructure investment to lower housing costs.
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More homes. Lower pressure. Communities people can afford to stay in.
Increase the public return from Alaska resource development and modernize resource revenue structures.
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Alaska is one of the richest resource states in the world, but too often we are not getting our full value. Alaska’s resources should work for Alaskans first.
Increase Alaska-based employment through workforce training, local hiring, and growth in energy, construction, healthcare, food systems, transportation, and cold-climate industries.
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Grow High-Paying Alaskan Jobs
Protect Alaska fisheries, food security, and fishing communities while keeping more economic value from Alaska seafood in the state.
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Protect our fisheries. Defend our food security. Put Alaska first.
Use long-term infrastructure and development planning to fix aging systems, expand opportunity, and strengthen Alaska communities.
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Fix what’s broken. Build what’s next. Plan for the long term.
Protect Alaska’s constitutional rights, trusted elections, independent courts, transparency, checks and balances, and the rule of law.
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Protect our rights. Defend our Constitution. Keep government accountable.
Increase public transparency and accountability around large data-center development and its effects on Alaska communities and resources.
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Protect Alaska from Secretive Data Center Deals
Strengthen prevention, victim services, interagency coordination, training, and rapid response for domestic violence, sexual assault, and missing or murdered Indigenous people.
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Expand support for Tribal, village-based, and rural service providers
Protect the Permanent Fund for future generations and make dividends predictable while maintaining funding for essential public services.
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Schools are closing. The future of the PFD – and even the Permanent Fund itself – could be in doubt. Grocery and fuel costs are rising. Health care is expensive and hard to access. And young Alaskans are fleeing to the Lower 48, never to return.
Reduce food costs and import dependence by supporting Alaska food production, processing, storage, supply chains, and subsistence hunting and fishing.
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Protect our fisheries. Defend our food security. Put Alaska first.
DEFEND OUR FOOD SECURITY.
Strengthen community-based policing, emergency response, youth programs, behavioral-health crisis response, and re-entry support.
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Strengthen support for shelters, victim services, and community-based providers
Modernize revenue and budgeting so Alaska can reduce boom-and-bust fiscal cycles while protecting core services.
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ALASKANS SHOULD BENEFIT FROM OUR OWN RESOURCES.
PLAN FOR THE LONG TERM.
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