2003 Anchorage mayoral election

2003 Anchorage mayoral election
	April 1, 2003
Turnout	34.45%
Mayor before election; George Wuerch; Republican	Elected mayor ; Mark Begich; Democratic

The 2003 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 1, 2003, to elect the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. It saw election of Mark Begich, who unseated incumbent mayor George Wuerch.

An assembly ordinance and ballot proposition passed in Anchorage in 2003 had lowered the threshold required to avoid a mayoral runoff from 50% of the vote to 45%.^[2] Since Begich surpassed this margin, no runoff was necessary. Wuerch was the first, and until 2024 only, mayor of Anchorage to lose re-election since it became a borough in 1975.

Candidates

Mark Begich, former Anchorage Assemblyman, 1994 and 2000 mayoral candidate
Jennifer Citti
Daniel DeNardo
David Dunsmore
Thomas Mark Higgins
Tom Layne
Bruce J. Lemke
Ray Malcolm
Rick Mystrom, former mayor
George Wuerch, incumbent mayor
Richard Zeigler, 1994 mayoral candidate

Results

Results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Mark Begich	28,604	45.03
	Nonpartisan	George Wuerch (incumbent)	23,615	37.17
	Nonpartisan	Richard Mystrom	9,954	15.67
	Nonpartisan	David Dunsmore	488	0.77
	Nonpartisan	Jennifer Citti	195	0.31
	Nonpartisan	Thomas Mark Higgins	144	0.23
	Nonpartisan	Richard Zeigler	135	0.21
	Nonpartisan	Tom Layne	103	0.16
	Nonpartisan	Daniel DeNardo	97	0.15
	Nonpartisan	Ray Malcolm	61	0.1
	Nonpartisan	Bruce J. Lemke	49	0.08
	Write-in	Write-in	79	0.12
Turnout			63,524	34.45

References

^ ^a ^b "ELECTION RESULTS REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION APRIL 1, 2003" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
^ "Anchorage Alaska A.O. No. 2007-152" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. November 6, 2007. Retrieved November 13, 2019.

[results-1] "ELECTION RESULTS REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION APRIL 1, 2003" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. Retrieved November 12, 2019.

[2] "Anchorage Alaska A.O. No. 2007-152" (PDF). Municipality of Anchorage. November 6, 2007. Retrieved November 13, 2019.

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