1976Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
1976 election for Alaska House District 16
Alaska House of Representatives · Alaska
Nels Anderson (Ind) won with 51.1% of the vote, defeating Joe McGill (D) by 2.3 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Nels AndersonIndependent · winner · incumbent
51.1%1,007
Joe McGillDemocrat
48.9%962
1,969 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1976
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET