Andrew Halcro

Andrew Halcro (born September 20, 1964) is an American politician and businessman from Anchorage, Alaska. Formerly a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, he ran for Governor of Alaska as an independent candidate in the 2006 election, placing third with 9.46 percent of the vote.

Andrew Halcro
Halcro in 2014
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 12th district
In office 1998–2003
Preceded by	Mark Hanley
Succeeded by	John Harris
Personal details
Born	(1964-09-20) September 20, 1964 (age 60) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Political party	Independent (since 2006) Republican (until 2006)
Children	2

Early life and education

Halcro was born in San Francisco, California on September 20, 1964. After graduating from East Anchorage High School, he attended Willamette University and the University of Alaska Anchorage.^[1][2][3]

Career

Business career

Halcro was director of sales and marketing for Avis Rent a Car of Alaska and a board member of the Avis Licensee Association from 1990.^[1][2] From 2002 he was president of Avis Alaska.^[4] He stepped down as president and chief executive officer when he launched his 2006 gubernatorial campaign, but returned to the company following the election.^[5]

Alaska House of Representatives

In 1998, he ran for the Alaska House of Representatives as a Republican, winning both the primary and the general election. In 2000, he won the Republican primary and was unopposed in the general election. He did not seek re-election in 2002.

Gubernatorial race

Halcro ran for Governor of Alaska in 2006 as an independent candidate. His gubernatorial campaign emphasised community health, economic wellbeing, the state's marketing efforts and small business.^[4] On election day, Halcro finished third, receiving 22,443 votes, 9.46 percent of the total. Republican nominee Sarah Palin won the election with 114,697 votes, 48.33 percent and former Governor Tony Knowles finished second, with 40.97 percent.

Later career

After losing his gubernatorial bid, Halcro began a political blog, through which he became a prominent critic of Palin's administration and publicized the scandal surrounding Palin's July 2008 dismissal of a Public Safety Commissioner.^[5] Palin later criticized Halcro in her memoir Going Rogue.^[6]

Halcro said in September 2009 that he would run for the United States House of Representatives in Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2010, but in February 2010 said he was reconsidering his decision.^[7] He became president of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce in 2012.^[8][9]

In January 2015 Halcro filed a letter of intent to run for Mayor of Anchorage.^[8] He declared his intention to run later that month, and said he was running because "We need a healthy economy, a healthy community, and we need trust."^[10] He placed third in the first round of the election and did not advance to the runoff election.^[11]

Halcro ran as an independent candidate in the 2022 special election to succeed Don Young in Alaska's at-large congressional district.^[12] He finished eleventh in the blanket primary, with 1.87 percent of the vote.^[13]

Electoral history

2006 Alaska gubernatorial election^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Sarah Palin	114,697	48.33	−7.6
	Democratic	Tony Knowles	97,238	40.97	+0.3
	Independent	Andrew Halcro	22,443	9.46	n/a
	Independence	Don Wright	1,285	0.54	−0.4
	Libertarian	Billy Toien	682	0.29	−0.2
	Green	David Massie	593	0.25	−1.0
	Write-in candidate	Write-in votes	384	0.16	+0.1
Plurality			17,459	7.36
Turnout			238,307	51.1
	Republican hold		Swing	-7.6

2015 Anchorage mayoral election, First round results^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Ethan Berkowitz	20,451	37.01
	Nonpartisan	Amy Demboski	13,337	24.13
	Nonpartisan	Andrew Halcro	11,956	21.64
	Nonpartisan	Dan Coffey	7,960	14.40
	Nonpartisan	Dustin Darden	571	1.03
	Nonpartisan	Lance Ahern	395	0.71
	Nonpartisan	Paul Bauer	217	0.39
	Nonpartisan	Timothy Huit	120	0.22
	Nonpartisan	Jacob Seth Kern	57	0.10
	Nonpartisan	Christopher Jamison	45	0.08
	Nonpartisan	Samuel Joe Speziale	31	0.06
	Write-in	Write-ins	120	0.22
Turnout			55,260	27.0