Charles Kopp

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Charles Kopp
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Alaska House of Representatives District 10
Tenure

2025 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

0

Prior offices
Alaska House of Representatives District 24
Successor: Thomas McKay

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Cook Inlet Academy

Bachelor's

University of Alaska, Anchorage, 1987

Personal
Birthplace
Anchorage, Alaska
Religion
Christian
Profession
Business owner
Contact

Charles Kopp (Republican Party) (also known as Chuck) is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing District 10. He assumed office on January 21, 2025. His current term ends on January 19, 2027.

Kopp (Republican Party) ran for election to the Alaska House of Representatives to represent District 10. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Kopp completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Charles Kopp graduated from Cook Inlet Academy in 1983. He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 1987. Kopp's career experience includes working in public safety at the Anchorage and Kenai Police Departments. He previously served as Kenai's Chief of Police. He was elected to serve in the Alaskan House of Representatives.[1]

Committee assignments

2019-2020

Kopp was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

Alaska committee assignments, 2017
Education
Judiciary
Transportation

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2024

See also: Alaska House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Alaska House of Representatives District 10

The ranked-choice voting election was won by Charles Kopp in round 1 .


Total votes: 7,581
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 10

Charles Kopp and incumbent Craig Johnson advanced from the primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 10 on August 20, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Charles Kopp
Charles Kopp (R) Candidate Connection
 
60.5
 
1,449
Image of Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson (R)
 
39.5
 
947

Total votes: 2,396
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

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2020

See also: Alaska House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Thomas McKay defeated Sue Levi in the general election for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Thomas McKay
Thomas McKay (R)
 
56.3
 
5,617
Image of Sue Levi
Sue Levi (D) Candidate Connection
 
43.4
 
4,329
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
30

Total votes: 9,976
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Thomas McKay defeated incumbent Charles Kopp in the Republican primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on August 18, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Thomas McKay
Thomas McKay
 
60.8
 
1,737
Image of Charles Kopp
Charles Kopp
 
39.2
 
1,121

Total votes: 2,858
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Alaska Democratic and Independence parties primary election

Alaska Democratic and Independence parties primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Sue Levi advanced from the Alaska Democratic and Independence parties primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on August 18, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Sue Levi
Sue Levi Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
1,661

Total votes: 1,661
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2018

See also: Alaska House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Incumbent Charles Kopp defeated Sue Levi in the general election for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Charles Kopp
Charles Kopp (R)
 
60.2
 
4,933
Image of Sue Levi
Sue Levi (D)
 
39.4
 
3,224
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
31

Total votes: 8,188
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Incumbent Charles Kopp defeated Stephen Duplantis in the Republican primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on August 21, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Charles Kopp
Charles Kopp
 
70.5
 
1,535
Stephen Duplantis
 
29.5
 
642

Total votes: 2,177
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Alaska Democratic, Libertarian, and Independence parties primary election

Alaska Democratic, Libertarian, and Independence parties primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24

Sue Levi advanced from the Alaska Democratic, Libertarian, and Independence parties primary for Alaska House of Representatives District 24 on August 21, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Sue Levi
Sue Levi
 
100.0
 
1,034

Total votes: 1,034
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2016

See also: Alaska House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the Alaska House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 16, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016. Incumbent Craig Johnson (R) did not seek re-election.

Charles M. Kopp defeated Sue Levi in the Alaska House of Representatives District 24 general election.[2][3]

Alaska House of Representatives, District 24 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Charles M. Kopp 58.79% 5,019
     Democratic Sue Levi 41.21% 3,518
Total Votes 8,537
Source: Alaska Secretary of State


Sue Levi ran unopposed in the Alaska House of Representatives District 24 Democratic Primary.[4][5]

Alaska House of Representatives, District 24 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Sue Levi  (unopposed)


Charles M. Kopp ran unopposed in the Alaska House of Representatives District 24 Republican Primary.[4][5]

Alaska House of Representatives, District 24 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Charles M. Kopp  (unopposed)

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Charles Kopp completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kopp's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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My wife, Trish, and I are both lifelong Alaskans born in Anchorage, Alaska. We met at UAA while pursuing our education and have been married for 36 years. We were blessed to raise our three children in this great state and are now proud grandparents. I have been fortunate to work in Alaska’s private and public sectors over the past 40 years as a small business owner, commercial fisherman, police officer, police chief, city manager, and legislator from 2016 to 2020. I’ve experienced the challenges, and learned what it takes to get things done in both the private and public

  • My commitment is to be a responsive Representative, to listen to the people, to lead with courage and to work collaboratively for the future of Alaska. I will strive to support longterm gain for our children and grandchildren. Our next generation deserves better.
  • I bring a lifetime of Alaska-based experience to the job. I will seek to understand and carefully consider the consequences of issues before the Legislature, recognizing the signifcant responsiblity to my constituents, their families and our businesses. I will be a strong advocate for quality education, safe neighborhoods, spending discipline, road maintenance and responsible natural resource development.
  • Alaska is in a critical time with the outmigration of our workforce. We have to be a more competitive employer. The cost of doing nothing is the devastation of public safety in our communities as most police departments and the State Troopers are severely understaffed. Additionally, our schools are unable to attract and retain qualified teachers and support staff. We must have the discussion of what we can do to turn this around and restore these vital services to our communities.

Public safety, natural resource production, reducing homelessness, education, and private property rights.

Courage to lead on tough policy decisions. Responsive and accountable representation to the constituents. A commitment to consensus building over partisan separation.

I have a genuine concern for people and the issues of importance to them. I take action, follow through and get things done.

Made the hard choices for Alaska.

Commercial fishing in Bristol Bay for sockeye salmon. It is still the family business.

I believe in our federalist structure of government that brings us the ideal model of separation of powers among the three branches of government. I believe the Governor should respect the Legislature's constitutional power of appropriation, and the Legislature should defer to the Governor's authority to execute the law.

Energy supply crisis. An outmigration of our workforce. Homelessness.

Absolutely. The best outcomes are always found through productive interaction of people who may not be like minded but are committed to solving the issues of the day.

Yes. Alaska law already provides for this in many instances.

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2020

Charles Kopp did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary


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Charles Kopp campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Alaska House of Representatives District 10Won general$77,453 $69,906
2020Alaska House of Representatives District 24Lost primary$75,597 N/A**
2018Alaska House of Representatives District 24Won general$48,366 N/A**
2016Alaska House of Representatives, District 24Won $31,880 N/A**
Grand total$233,296 $69,906
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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2020

In 2020, the Alaska State Legislature was in session from January 21 to May 20.

Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.


2019


2018


2017




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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
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Alaska House of Representatives District 10
2025-Present
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
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Alaska House of Representatives District 24
2017-2021
Succeeded by
Thomas McKay (R)


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