2003 Anchorage mayoral election

2003 Anchorage mayoral election

← 2000 April 1, 2003[1] 2006 →
Turnout34.45%
 
Candidate Mark Begich George Wuerch Rick Mystrom
Popular vote 28,604 23,615 9,954
Percentage 45.03% 37.17% 15.67%

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.

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