The 2024 City and Borough of Juneau Regular Municipal Election candidate filing period opens Friday, July 12 at 8 a.m. and closes Monday, July 22, at 4:30 p.m.

This fall, Juneau voters will elect a Mayor, two Assembly members and three Board of Education (School Board) members. Juneau residents are encouraged to consider this opportunity to serve the public and contribute to their community.

All candidate filings must be submitted in person at the Municipal Clerk’s office located on the second floor of City Hall (155 Heritage Way, Room 214). Candidates are encouraged to file as early as possible during the filing period to allow additional time to correct any insufficiencies in their paperwork.

Candidates running for office must complete a Declaration of Candidacy, a Nominating Petition, and an Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) Public Official Financial Disclosure form. These forms are available online at juneau.org/clerk/elections and must be filed with the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s Office during the filing period.

Declaration of Candidacy and Nominating Petition forms must be submitted to the Clerk in their original paper form (with original signatures and notarized); the Public Official Financial Disclosure form must be filed electronically on APOC’s website and a signed printed copy submitted to the Clerk. The Clerk’s Office cannot certify a candidate’s nominating petition without these three paper documents filed in the Clerk’s Office by the close of the filing period on Monday, July 22 at 4:30 p.m.

Candidates for office must meet eligibility criteria including voter registration and residency requirements. For detailed information, see the Declaration of Candidacy forms for Mayor, Assembly, or Board of Education. Eligibility criteria for Mayor, Assembly and Board of Education candidates differ, so please be sure to check the correct form.

Please note that candidates may only run for one elected office (Mayor, Assembly, or Board of Education) at a time.

The following seats are open in this election:

Mayor and Assembly

The Mayor’s seat will be open for a full three-year term. Candidates may reside anywhere in the City and Borough of Juneau.

One District 1 Assembly seat will be open for a full three-year term. Residents of Downtown Juneau, Douglas, North Douglas, Lemon Creek and the Airport area are eligible to run for District 1.

One District 2 Assembly seat will be open for a full three-year term. Residents of Mendenhall Valley and Out the Road are eligible to run for District 2.

Assembly members are term-limited to a maximum of three consecutive three-year terms, after which they must step down for a minimum of one year before they are eligible to run again for Assembly. All Juneau area voters may vote for all races on the ballot.

View a map of Assembly districts.

Board of Education

Three Board of Education seats will be open in this election. All Juneau voters may vote for up to three candidates.

Board of Education candidates may reside anywhere in the City and Borough of Juneau. There are no term limits for Board of Education members.

2024 Regular Municipal Election Information

The election will take place Tuesday, October 1. Ballots will be mailed to all registered voters on September 12, and voters are encouraged to return their ballot by mail or drop it off at a ballot drop box or Vote Center to avoid waiting in line on Election Day. The deadline to register to vote or update your voter information (including mailing address) is September 1.

For more information on CBJ elections, visit juneau.org/clerk/elections or contact the Clerk’s Office at (907) 586-5278 or [email protected].

On Monday, July 1, 2024, the Municipal Clerk’s office certified the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative and received the Supplemental Petition books submitted by the School Board Recall Petition Committee for the recall of School Board President Deedie Sorensen and Vice-President Emil Mackey.

Clerk staff will be reviewing the supplemental books for the recall petitions and have a final determination on sufficiency and certification no later than Thursday, July 11.

Decisions and complete details for each individual petition and the petition process in general can be found on the Municipal Clerk’s Elections webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections .

For voters who don’t know if they are a qualified Juneau registered voter or what address they are registered to vote at can check their voter registration status on the State of Alaska Division of Election’s website at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.  For individuals who are not registered to vote or who want to update their voter registration, the State Division of Elections has a webpage for that too. https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/.

Questions related to local CBJ Elections and the petition or voter registration process are encouraged to contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s office at 907-586-5278 or via email at [email protected].

Petitioner Committees for the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative and the Repeal Ordinance 2023-24 Referendum petitions were issued petition books on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 and returned the petitions on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Each petition is required to have 2,359 signatures for the Municipal Clerk’s office to certify them. In the initial round of signature review, neither the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative nor the Repeal Elections Ord. 2023-24 received a sufficient number of signatures.   For the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative Petition, Supplemental Books were turned in with a total of 424 signatures on Thursday, June 20. Clerk staff is currently reviewing signatures and will have a final decision on the sufficiency of this petition no later than Monday, July 1, 2024 (290 supplemental signatures are needed to certify the petition.)    For the Repeal Elections Ord. 2023-24 Referendum Petition, supplemental books were turned in with a total of 963 signatures on Thursday, June 20. Clerk staff is currently reviewing these supplemental books and will have a final decision on the sufficiency of this petition no later than Monday, July 1, 2024 (1391 supplemental signatures are needed to certify the petition.)    In other petition news, the two petitions to recall School Board President Deedie Sorensen and Vice-President Emil Mackey, were deemed insufficient during the first round of signature reviews and the petitioner committee was issued supplemental petition books to collect additional signatures to be turned into the Clerk’s office by Monday, July 10, 2024. Those petitions will go through a similar review and timing process as outlined above. Numbers of signatures, approved and those still required for certification, for each of the recall petitions are listed below:

For Deedie Sorensen, 1988 signatures were approved during the initial review; 371 additional signatures are needed in the supplemental round

For Emil Mackey, 2012 signatures were approved during the initial review; 347 additional signatures are needed in the supplemental round

Decisions and complete details for each individual petition and the petition process in general can be found on the Municipal Clerk’s Elections webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections . For voters who don’t know if they are a qualified Juneau registered voter or what address they are registered to vote at can check their voter registration status on the State of Alaska Division of Election’s website at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.  For individuals who are not registered to vote or who want to update their voter registration, the State Division of Elections has a webpage for that too. https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/ Questions related to local CBJ Elections and the petition or voter registration process are encouraged to contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s office at 907-586-5278 or via email at [email protected]v.

Petitioner Committees for the Ship-Free Saturday Initiative and the Repeal Ordinance 2023-24 Referendum petitions were issued petition books on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 and returned the petitions on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Each petition is required to have 2,359 signatures for the Municipal Clerk’s office to certify them. Per CBJ Charter, Clerk staff has 10 calendar days in which to review all the signatures submitted and either certify a petition or deem it insufficient. In the event it is deemed insufficient, the petition committee may be issued supplemental petition books and have an additional 10 calendar days to collect supplemental signatures. Following submission of the supplemental petitions, Clerk staff will then have 10 additional days by which to certify or reject the petition. In other petition news, there are currently two petitions to recall School Board President Deedie Sorensen and Vice-President Emil Mackey circulating in the community and due to be submitted to the Clerk’s office by Monday, June 10. Those petitions will go through a similar review and timing process as outlined above. Decisions and complete details for each individual petition and the petition process in general can be found on the Municipal Clerk’s Elections webpage at https://juneau.org/clerk/elections . For voters who are interested in signing petitions but don’t know if they are a qualified Juneau registered voter, they can check their voter registration status on the State of Alaska Division of Election’s website at https://myvoterinformation.alaska.gov/.  For individuals who are not registered to vote or who want to update their voter registration, the State Division of Elections has a webpage for that too. https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/ Questions related to local CBJ Elections and the petition or voter registration process are encouraged to contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s office at 907-586-5278 or via email at [email protected]v.