2024 Anchorage mayoral election

The 2024 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 2, 2024, with a runoff election on May 14 because no candidate received more than 45% of the vote in the first round. It elected the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Incumbent Republican mayor Dave Bronson ran for re-election to a second term in office.

Bronson and former Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance advanced to the runoff, with LaFrance narrowly placing ahead of Bronson. Bronson's general election vote total was the lowest for an incumbent Anchorage mayor since 2009. Candidates eliminated in the general election include nonprofit executive Bill Popp and former Alaska House Majority Leader Chris Tuck. Popp endorsed LaFrance in the runoff, while Tuck remained neutral.

LaFrance prevailed in the runoff, becoming the first woman elected mayor of Anchorage. Bronson is only the second mayor of Anchorage to lose re-election since it became a borough in 1975.

Candidates

Advanced to runoff

Dave Bronson, incumbent mayor (party affiliation: Republican)
Suzanne LaFrance, former chair of the Anchorage Assembly (party affiliation: Independent)

Eliminated in general election

Darin Colbry, truck driver and perennial candidate (party affiliation: Republican)
Breck Craig, technology project manager, candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016, and candidate for U.S. House in 2022 (party affiliation: Independent)
Nick Danger, former Girdwood supervisor, former WWF wrestler, and perennial candidate (party affiliation: Republican)
Dustin Darden, maintenance worker and perennial candidate (party affiliation: Alaskan Independence)
Jenny Di Grapa, food bank community relations director
Phil Isley, aircraft mechanic and perennial candidate
Bill Popp, nonprofit executive and former Kenai Peninsula Borough assemblyman (party affiliation: Independent) (endorsed LaFrance in runoff)
Chris Tuck, former Majority Leader of the Alaska House of Representatives and former Anchorage school board member (party affiliation: Democratic) (declined to endorse in runoff)