December 1963 Greater Anchorage Borough election

1963 Greater Anchorage Borough election

December 3, 1963

The 1963 Greater Anchorage Borough election was an incorporation election for the borough government in Anchorage, Alaska. It was held on December 3, 1963. 6,597 ballots were cast.

Background

In a September 24, 1963 election, the Greater Anchorage region had rejected incorporating as a borough. During this election, George Byer (former City of Anchorage mayor) had won an election to serve as borough chairman if such an office were to have been created by concurrent referendums.

The state legislature mandated that former election districts would be reconstituted as boroughs on January 1, 1964, and that mandatory balloting would take place to select what form of government the boroughs would adopt, which classification of borough they would be incorporated as, and who would serve as elected officers for their governments. In December 1963, mandatory incorporation elections were held three so-called "mandatory" boroughs in South-Central Alaska: Anchorage, Kenai Peninsula, and Matanuska. A similar election was also held in the new Fairbanks borough.

Vote on whether borough should be a first or second class borough

Vote on whether borough should be a first or second class borough

Candidate		Votes	%
Second class		3,393	52.54
First class		3,065	47.46
Total votes		6,458	100

Vote on the form of government for the borough

Results of vote on the form of government

Candidate		Votes	%
Chairman		3,673	58.53
Council-manager		2,602	41.47
Total votes		6,275	100

Borough chairman

Borough chairman

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	John M. Asplund	3,186	51.04
	Nonpartisan	George Byer	2,471	39.59
	Nonpartisan	J. J. McCutcheon	389	6.23
	Nonpartisan	Larry Carmichael	136	2.18
	Nonpartisan	Elsie M. Cornell	60	0.96
Total votes			6,242	100

Borough assemblymen

Section 1

Borough assemblyman for section 1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Glenn Briggs	1,117	42.63
	Nonpartisan	Edward C. "Ed" Willis	1,007	38.44
	Nonpartisan	Dan C. Bell	496	18.93
Total votes			2,620	100

Section 2

Borough assemblyman for section 2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Walter E. Jerde	870	39.24
	Nonpartisan	Dick Reed Lyon	750	33.83
	Nonpartisan	Thomas S. Adams	597	26.93
Total votes			2,217	100

Section 3

Borough assemblyman for section 3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	John M. Asplund	1,463	55.65
	Nonpartisan	J. J. McCutcheon	605	23.01
	Nonpartisan	Joseph W. "Joe" Graham	338	12.86
	Nonpartisan	A. D. Hess Powell	138	5.25
	Nonpartisan	Theodore G. "Ted" Smith	85	3.23
Total votes			2,629	100

Section 4

Borough assemblyman for section 4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	John Glenn Gill	1,216	52.35
	Nonpartisan	Dave Ring	1,107	47.65
Total votes			2,323	100

Section 5

Borough assemblyman for section 5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Mable H. Crawford	996	38.85
	Nonpartisan	James M. Garrigues	847	33.03
	Nonpartisan	Vernon E. Haik	721	28.12
Total votes			2,564	100

Section 6

Borough assemblyman for section 6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	William M. "Bill" Shear	1,145	44.45
	Nonpartisan	Lawrence "Larry" Straley	686	26.63
	Nonpartisan	Larry Carmichael	529	20.54
	Nonpartisan	Harold N. Aldrich	216	8.39
Total votes			2,576	100

Borough school board

Borough school board election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Frank M. Reed	4,169
	Nonpartisan	Keith M. Lesh	3,831
	Nonpartisan	Richard R. Gay	3,785
	Nonpartisan	Marilyn Wilkins	3,697
	Nonpartisan	Willis Avery	3,559
	Nonpartisan	William J. Moran	3,429
	Nonpartisan	John C. Hughes	2,999
	Nonpartisan	Ralph M. Mills	2,108
	Nonpartisan	Paul L. Weatherman	1,913
	Nonpartisan	B. W. "Bud" Hardesty	1,814
	Nonpartisan	Donald E. "Don" White	1,714
	Nonpartisan	Joseph W. "Joe" Graham	1,622
	Nonpartisan	Elsie M. Cornell	1,316
Total votes