Andrew Wellner, Frontiersman

MAT-SU — If gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker is disappointed at the results of Tuesday’s primary, it wasn’t the Valley’s fault.

Vote totals are going to change as absentee ballots are counted, but Walker seemed to be holding onto a second-place finish as of Thursday afternoon with 33.85 percent of the statewide vote in the Republican primary.

Despite that, Walker carried every Valley district. His closest margin was in the Butte/Chugiak district, where he edged out the presumptive winner, Gov. Sean Parnell, by just seven votes. His widest margin was in District 14, Greater Wasilla, where he took 1,598 votes to Parnell’s 1,299. Elsewhere on the ballot, the Valley bucked the statewide trends only in the ardency of its support.
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