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1996 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16158920 ↗
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The Alaska congressional election of 1996 was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996. The term of the state's sole Representative to the United States House of Representatives expired on January 3, 1997. The winning candidate would serve a two-year term from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “1996 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.