Partial, unofficial election night results show the former Assembly chair leading incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson by nearly 10%.
Suzanne LaFrance is poised to unseat incumbent Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and become the city’s first elected female mayor.
“I feel really optimistic and grateful to everyone for all their work and support, and bringing us to this moment,” LaFrance said in an interview. “We’re not going to commit to anything tonight because, all the votes – I mean, there’s folks that just voted 30 minutes ago,” he said. “So we don’t want to say anything until their votes are counted.”“So this is well within the realm of changing,” he said. “This is where we were three years ago, and we wound up pulling that out. But
The election caps a yearslong divide between LaFrance and Bronson, beginning when Bronson was elected mayor in 2021. For two years of Bronson’s term, LaFrance served as Assembly chair.
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