Alaska Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon will run for open state Senate seat

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: May 29, 2026

Words: 393

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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The leader of the coalition majority in the Alaska House of Representatives will leave his seat and run for state Senate.

On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, filed as a candidate with the Alaska Division of Elections for the Senate seat covering Southwest Alaska.

Edgmon said he decided to run “with some encouragement and the realization that the timing was now or never.”

The incumbent, Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, is retiring …

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