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Bill Hill

The Race

SeatAK-AL, House
PrimaryAug 18, 2026
Partisan LeanR+6
Cook RatingLikely R
Votehub87.6% (R)

Fundraising — head to head

Bill Hill Democrat
$1,336,292
Nick Begich III Republican
$5,470,446

Bill Hill is an independent candidate running for Alaska's at-large U.S. House seat, seeking to unseat freshman Republican Rep. Nick Begich III. Hill advanced from Alaska's open, top-four primary alongside Begich, and recent independent polling has shown him within the margin of error of the incumbent. In July 2026, the leading Democrat in the race, Matt Schultz, suspended his campaign and endorsed Hill, consolidating support behind Hill's bid to flip the seat.

A Dena'ina Athabascan raised in the small village of Kokhanok before his family moved to Naknek in Bristol Bay, Hill has also lived in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. He worked as a commercial fisherman, construction worker, and small business owner before spending 25 years as an educator, serving as an administrator in the Lake and Peninsula School District and later as superintendent of the Bristol Bay Borough School District. He was named Alaska's 2023 Superintendent of the Year.

Hill has never held elected office. His campaign has been endorsed by the Alaska Public Employees Association, UFCW Local 1496, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, and Alaska Native leaders from across the state, and he entered the fall campaign with roughly $700,000 in cash on hand. He lives in Naknek with his wife, Diane.

  • Bill Hill is running on an "Alaskans First" agenda to lower costs, fight corruption, and protect Alaska's way of life. He supports:
  • Bringing down everyday costs by opposing tariffs, keeping health care costs in check, and backing new housing and energy projects
  • Protecting Alaska's fisheries and subsistence way of life, including addressing bycatch in Bristol Bay's salmon fishery
  • Making billionaires and large corporations pay their fair share, and cutting taxes for small businesses and the middle class
  • Banning members of Congress from trading stocks
  • Expanding Medicaid coverage, extending federal health-insurance subsidies, and capping prescription drug prices
  • Supporting veterans and first responders, including fully funding the VA and providing cancer screenings for firefighters
  • A commercial fisherman and longtime educator, Bill Hill is running for Congress to make sure Alaskans can work hard, take care of their families, and live the Alaska way.

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