Homer polling locations reported steady traffic on Election Day, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 7, as voters turned up to cast their ballots in the Kenai Peninsula Borough and City of Homer elections.

Three Homer City Council seats — two three-year term seats and one one-year term — are in contention in the city election. For the borough, residents also voted on four of the five propositions on the ballot this year.

Proposition 1 asks voters to decide whether all ballots cast in person on Election Day should be counted manually and the use of electronic voting tabulators should be eliminated. Proposition 3 asks if the borough property tax exemption should be increased from $50,000 to $75,000. Proposition 4 asks if the borough sales tax cap should be adjusted for inflation once every five years. Proposition 5 asks voters to decide whether the current borough election date, set in October, should be changed to align with the State of Alaska election date set in November.

South peninsula voters registered outside of Homer city limits also voted for their new District 9 representative on the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education.

Three seats on the South Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area Board also appeared on the ballot for Homer city and other south peninsula residents.

At Homer City Hall, the polling location for precinct Homer No. 1, city manager Melissa Jacobsen said that the turnout for absentee voting had been pretty good, and in-person turnout on Election day remained steady.

Local resident Britta Frank said she came out to vote on the ballot propositions and the school board.

“I’m really in support of public education, and so I really want a strong candidate that is going to be able to advocate for our students,” she said. “That’s important to me, being a parent of four, with two in school.”

Another voter said she’s driven to vote in order to elect representation.

“I just think that’s one of our rights and duties as citizens of this country, to do that,” she said. “I vote every chance I get.”

The Homer United Methodist Church is the polling location for the second Homer city precinct. Election workers there said they’d received “so many” absentee ballots in the last two weeks, and that turnout on Election Day was a “steady trickle” with additional bursts of voters.

At the Homer Chamber of Commerce — the polling place for the Diamond Ridge precinct — election workers reiterated that turnout had been steady so far Tuesday afternoon. They’d received about 120 in-person ballots by approximately 1:30 p.m., and were hoping to see 20% voter turnout. The precinct was issued 1,025 ballots.

In Anchor Point, election workers at the Anchor Point Community and Senior Center said that turnout was steady, yet fairly mild. They expected to see a few more voters appear after the end of the workday.

Polling locations close at 8 p.m.

Follow the preliminary borough election results online at www.kpb.us/local-governance-and-permitting/voting-elections/latest-election-results.

Preliminary election results for the City of Homer can be found at www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/cityclerk/2025-preliminary-election-results. Final Homer election results will be certified at the next Homer City Council regular meeting on Monday, Oct. 13.

Election workers Susie Myhill (right) and Charlie Franz help voters before they cast their ballots on Election Day, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in the Homer City Hall Cowles Council Chambers in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

A voter fills out their ballot on Election Day, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, at the Anchor Point Community and Senior Center in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)