The 1960 Alaska House of Representatives election was held on November 8, 1960, concurrently with the 1960 United States elections to elect members of the Alaska House of Representatives to the 2nd Alaska State Legislature. It was Alaska's first House election as a state. All 40 seats of the House were up for election, with 20 seats being won by Democrats, one by Independent Democrat Robert I. Ditman, and 19 by Republicans.[1] Republicans gained a net total of 13 Democratic seats, mostly from Anchorage and Fairbanks, and future governor Jay S. Hammond switched from an independent to a Republican.[2]
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All 40 seats in the Alaska House of Representatives 21 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results: Democratic gain Independent Democrat gain Republican gain Democratic hold Republican hold Multi-member districts: Majority Democratic Even Majority Republican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the House first convened on January 23, 1961, Warren A. Taylor from Fairbanks was once again elected House speaker.[3]
Results by district
editDistrict 1
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Alfred E. Widmark | 224 | 50.7 | |||
Democratic | Charles M. Jones (incumbent) | 218 | 49.3 | |||
Total votes | 442 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 2
editDistrict 2 elected 2 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Walter L. Kubley | 2,215 | 54.0 | |||
Republican | William K. Boardman | 2,083 | 50.7 | |||
Democratic | Zerbetz | 1,768 | 43.1 | |||
Democratic | Oral E. Freeman (incumbent) | 1,711 | 41.7 | |||
Total votes | 4,105 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 3
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | John E. Longworth (incumbent) | 1,019 | 100.0 | |
Total votes | 1,019 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
District 4
editDistrict 4 elected 2 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Andrew Hope (incumbent) | 1,296 | 55.2 | |
Democratic | Frank E. Cashel (incumbent) | 1,206 | 51.3 | |
Republican | Yaw | 999 | 42.5 | |
Republican | Mitrovitch | 912 | 38.8 | |
Total votes | 2,349 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 5
editDistrict 5 elected 2 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Marcus F. Jensen | 2,333 | 52.0 | |
Democratic | Dora M. Sweeney (incumbent) | 2,290 | 51.1 | |
Republican | Hermann | 2,156 | 48.1 | |
Republican | Druxman | 1,581 | 35.2 | |
Total votes | 4,486 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 6
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Morgan W. Reed (incumbent) | 693 | 63.1 | |
Republican | Mattson | 406 | 36.9 | |
Total votes | 1,099 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 7
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Harold Z. Hansen (incumbent) | 419 | 72.5 | |
Write-in | David | 159 | 27.5 | |
Total votes | 578 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 8
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Democrat | Robert I. Ditman | 439 | 57.6 | |||
Republican | Ashby | 323 | 42.4 | |||
Total votes | 762 | 100.0 | ||||
Independent Democrat gain from Republican |
District 9
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Jalmar M. Kerttula | 1,110 | 51.3 | |
Republican | Reid | 1,055 | 48.7 | |
Total votes | 2,165 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 10
editDistrict 10, based in Anchorage, elected 8 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | R. W. Stratton, Jr. | 12,081 | 57.5 | |||
Republican | Bruce Kendall | 11,529 | 54.9 | |||
Republican | Harold D. Strandberg | 11,395 | 54.2 | |||
Republican | James C. Parsons | 11,003 | 52.4 | |||
Republican | Henry S. Pratt | 10,233 | 48.7 | |||
Republican | William H. Sanders | 10,205 | 48.5 | |||
Republican | Bennie Leonard | 9,456 | 45.0 | |||
Democratic | John S. Hellenthal (incumbent) | 9,385 | 44.6 | |||
Democratic | Colver | 9,360 | 44.5 | |||
Democratic | Peter J. Kalamarides (incumbent) | 9,295 | 44.2 | |||
Democratic | James E. Fisher (incumbent) | 9,213 | 43.8 | |||
Democratic | Alcantra | 8,867 | 42.2 | |||
Republican | Martin | 8,262 | 39.3 | |||
Democratic | James E. Norene (incumbent) | 8,211 | 39.1 | |||
Democratic | Russ Meekins (incumbent) | 7,738 | 36.8 | |||
Democratic | McSmith | 7,377 | 35.1 | |||
Total votes | 20,998 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 11
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | William M. Erwin (incumbent) | 674 | 57.3 | |
Republican | James | 502 | 42.7 | |
Total votes | 1,176 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 12
editJay S. Hammond was originally elected in 1958 as an independent, switching to the Republican party for the 1960 election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Leo F. Rhode | 1,104 | 53.0 | |||
Democratic | Benton | 978 | 47.0 | |||
Total votes | 2,082 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 13
editDistrict 13, based in Kodiak, elected 2 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Gilbert A. Jarvela | 1,138 | 74.2 | |
Democratic | Peter M. Deveau (incumbent) | 933 | 60.9 | |
Republican | Trent | 422 | 27.5 | |
Republican | Knudsen | 325 | 21.2 | |
Total votes | 1,533 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 14
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Arthur J. Harris | 391 | 68.1 | |
Write-in (Democratic) | Charles J. Franz (incumbent) | 182 | 31.8 | |
Total votes | 573 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 15
editJay S. Hammond was originally elected in 1958 as an independent, switching to the Republican party for the 1960 election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jay S. Hammond (incumbent) | 506 | 51.6 | |
Democratic | Harrison | 475 | 48.4 | |
Total votes | 981 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
District 16
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Raymond C. Christiansen | 533 | 57.4 | |||
Republican | James Hoffman (incumbent) | 396 | 42.6 | |||
Total votes | 929 | 100.0 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
District 17
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Donald Harris (incumbent) | 410 | 65.8 | |
Democratic | Rogers | 213 | 34.2 | |
Total votes | 623 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold |
District 18
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Grant H. Pearson (incumbent) | 472 | 51.3 | |
Republican | Mercer | 449 | 48.7 | |
Total votes | 921 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 19
editDistrict 19, based in Fairbanks, elected 5 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Charles M. "Jim" Binkley | 5,508 | 57.8 | |||
Democratic | Frank X. Chapados (incumbent) | 4,834 | 50.8 | |||
Republican | Edgar I. Baggen | 4,800 | 50.4 | |||
Republican | Forbes L. Baker | 4,682 | 49.2 | |||
Democratic | Warren A. Taylor (incumbent) | 4,559 | 47.9 | |||
Republican | Ringstead | 4,464 | 46.9 | |||
Democratic | Robert E. Sheldon (incumbent) | 4,353 | 45.7 | |||
Republican | Gayley | 4,199 | 44.1 | |||
Democratic | Richard J. Greuel (incumbent) | 4,092 | 43.0 | |||
Democratic | Bob Giersdorf (incumbent) | 3,632 | 38.1 | |||
Total votes | 9,513 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 20
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Write-in (Republican) | Kenneth A. Garrison | 210 | 57.4 | |||
Democratic | R.S. McCombe (incumbent) | 107 | 29.2 | |||
Republican | King | 49 | 13.4 | |||
Total votes | 366 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 21
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | John Nusunginya (incumbent) | 356 | 100.0 | |
Total votes | 356 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
District 22
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Jacob A. Stalker | 449 | 55.0 | |||
Republican | John E. Curtis (incumbent) | 368 | 45.0 | |||
Total votes | 817 | 100.0 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
District 23
editDistrict 23 elected 2 representatives.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Robert R. Blodgett (incumbent) | 982 | 52.5 | |||
Republican | Arthur D. Johnson | 909 | 48.6 | |||
Democratic | Charles E. Fagerstrom (incumbent) | 782 | 41.8 | |||
Republican | M. Johnson | 695 | 37.2 | |||
Total votes | 1,868 | 100.0 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
District 24
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in (Democratic) | Segundo Llorente | 210 | 53.3 | |
Write-in | A. Johnson | 93 | 23.6 | |
Democratic | Paquette | 91 | 23.0 | |
Total votes | 394 | 100.0 | ||
Democratic hold |
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "STATE OF ALASKA SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICIAL RETURNS GENERAL ELECTION (November 8, 1960)" (PDF). Alaska Elections. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ Carey, Michael (5 August 2005). "Jay Hammond: man, myth, legend and, yes, politician" (PDF). University of Alaska. Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ "Taxes Fund Budget". Alaska Legislature. Retrieved 15 April 2024.