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Detailed election results show some stark differences between Juneau precincts, and in some cases the rest of the state as well.

Juneau's downtown and Mendenhall Valley House districts split on two of the most controversial ballot measures.

Voters in downtown's more liberal House District 3 supported Ballot Measure 4, the water quality initiative, and Ballot Measure 2, the same-day airborne shooting initiative.

Both measures failed in the valley's House District 4 and statewide.

The airborne hunting measure passed 52-48 downtown, while it failed 54-46 in the valley, nearly as wide as its statewide margin of defeat.

Downtown also approved the water quality measure, 51-49, while in the valley it failed 64-36.

The Juneau district was one of just a handful in which the water quality measure passed. Statewide, it failed overall 57-43.

In a few places the water quality initiative did quite well, however, especially in the communities downstream from the controversial Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska.

Fishing-dependent Dillingham and the district surrounding that area approved of the measure by a 67-33 margin, when in the village of New Stuyahok they voted 153-6 in favor.

The results of the downtown district's vote on the water quality initiative showed that House candidate David Newman may have picked a poor issue on which to challenge incumbent Rep. Beth Kerttula. Newman opposed the measure, while Kerttula and voters in the district supported it.

Voters throughout Juneau were divided on Tuesday's hottest race, the yet-to-be decided Republican primary for U.S. Congress. Incumbent Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and challenger Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell split almost every other precinct in the state, with Parnell taking the edge citywide.

Parnell won 10 precincts in Juneau, with Young taking six.

Juneau voters agreed with the rest of the state in deciding to renominate Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, in the Republican primary and Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich in the Democratic primary, to contend for U.S. Senate in November.

In the less watched Democratic primary to take on the winner of the Young-Parnell race, Juneau voters agreed with the rest of the state's decision to nominate former state Rep. Ethan Berkowitz, instead of Diane Benson, as the Democratic standard bearer.

Berkowitz won every precinct in Juneau.

The most lopsided margin of defeat for a ballot measure statewide was Ballot Measure 3, the publicly funded elections initiative. It actually passed in three Juneau precincts downtown, but failed everywhere else and lost statewide 65 percent to 35 percent.

In state House races, Republican Cathy Muñoz won with votes approaching 60 percent in almost every precinct. Downtown, Kerttula easily won every precinct by even larger margins, with Newman sometimes failing to even reach double digits.

Turnout was strong throughout Juneau, with 40 percent of registered voters showing up in both the valley and downtown, compared to about 35 percent statewide.