2003 Anchorage mayoral election
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%. Since Begich surpassed this margin, no runoff was necessary. Wuerch was the first, and until 2024 only, mayor of Anchorage to lose re-election since it became a borough in 1975.
Candidates
- Mark Begich, former Anchorage Assemblyman, 1994 and 2000 mayoral candidate
- Jennifer Citti
- Daniel DeNardo
- David Dunsmore
- Thomas Mark Higgins
- Tom Layne
- Bruce J. Lemke
- Ray Malcolm
- Rick Mystrom, former mayor
- George Wuerch, incumbent mayor
- Richard Zeigler, 1994 mayoral candidate