Ashley Carrick

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Ashley Carrick

|office = Member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 35th district

|term_start = January 17, 2023

|term_end =

|preceded =

|succeeded =

|party = Democratic{{Cite web|url=https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Member/Detail/33?code=cai|title=Representative Ashley Carrick|work=Alaska Legislature|access-date=July 18, 2023}}

|alma_mater = University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Alaska Anchorage

}}

Ashley Carrick is an American politician. She serves as a Democratic member for the 35th district of the Alaska House of Representatives.

Life and career

A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Carrick earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She later earned her master's degree in public health from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2020.

Carrick worked as an educator and as a legislative aide before joining the Alaska legislature. She is the first openly bisexual member of the Alaska Legislature, and one of its first openly LGBTQ members.{{Cite web|url=https://alaskapublic.org/2022/11/18/in-a-historic-first-alaskans-set-to-elect-3-lgbtq-lawmakers-to-state-legislature/|title=In a historic first, Alaskans set to elect 3 LGBTQ lawmakers to state Legislature|work=Alaska Public Media|first=Wesley|last=Early|date=November 18, 2022|access-date=July 18, 2023}} She assumed office in 2023.

Carrick also serves as the Democratic Co-Chair of the Alaska chapter of Future Caucus alongside state senator Robert Myers Jr.{{Cite web |title=AK Rep. Ashley Carrick |url=https://futurecaucus.org/future-caucus/state-future-caucus-network/state-caucus-chairs/ak-rep-ashley-carrick/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Future Caucus |language=en-US}} In 2024, she was selected for the Future Caucus Innovation Fellowship as part of the Criminal Justice cohort, a bipartisan coalition of Gen Z and millennial lawmakers interested in creating policies to improve the criminal justice system.{{Cite web |last=Wyatt |first=Garrett |date=2024-12-10 |title=64 Gen Z and Millennial Lawmakers Chosen for Bipartisan Future Caucus Fellowship |url=https://futurecaucus.org/64-gen-z-and-millennial-lawmakers-chosen-for-bipartisan-future-caucus-fellowship/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Future Caucus |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Criminal Justice Reform |url=https://futurecaucus.org/criminal-justice-reform/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Future Caucus |language=en-US}}

Electoral history

{{Incomplete list|date=March 2025}}

=2024=

== Primary ==

{{Election box begin no change

| title = 2024 Nonpartisan primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Ashley Carrick (incumbent)

| votes = 2332

| percentage = 60.6

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Ruben McNeill

| votes = 1517

| percentage = 39.4

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 3849

| percentage = 100.0

}}

{{Election box end}}

== General ==

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| title = 2024 Alaska House of Representatives election, District 35}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Ashley Carrick (incumbent)

| votes = 5047

| percentage = 55.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Ruben McNeill

| votes = 4066

| percentage = 44.5

}}

{{Election box write-in with party link no change

| votes = 23

| percentage = 0.2

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 9136

| percentage = 100.0

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no change

| winner = Democratic Party (United States)

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References