Elections

The election process is designed to ensure every one of the 22 communities that make up Tlingit & Haida can make their voices heard. When communities elect their respective delegates, those delegates will attend Tribal Assembly and vote for the Tlingit & Haida President, Executive Council Officers, and the Tribal Court Chief Justice and Judges.

At the 2025 Tribal Assembly, the following changes were adopted: 

• The number of eligible voters required to entitle a recognized Community to a Delegate shall be 275, rounded down to the nearest whole number.
• Communities within the homelands territory of Southeast Alaska will be allocated no fewer than 2 Delegates and no more than 20 Delegates.
• Communities outside the homelands territory of Southeast Alaska will be allocated no fewer than 2 Delegates and no more than 4 Delegates.

   Tribal citizens who live more than 100 miles away from a registered community are able to select the voting community of their choice; tribal citizens who live within 100 miles are automatically assigned. Tribal citizens must be 18 or older to be nominated and/or vote in their community’s election of delegates. Elections are held every even-numbered year in the spring.