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.
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Turnout | 34.45% | ||||||||||||||||
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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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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 |