State Council of Alaska (Joan of What?)

The State Council of Alaska (: Госуда́рственный Сове́т Аляски, tr. Gosudarstvenyy Sovet Alaski), sometimes referred to as the Soviet, is the of the bicameral. Along with the and the, it constitutes the  of the. Presided directly by the Tsar, the State Council meets in its chamber in, located in the federal capital of.

Members of the State Council, referred to as Councillors (Советники, tr. Sovetniki), are elected through the system, a type of preferential voting also used by other legislatures such as the. The Council under the Fixed Parliaments Act of 1958 is elected for a term of up to three years, after which half of the Council is dissolved and contested in the next election.

The Constitution of Alaska entitles each to three Councillors, and prohibits the federal government from unilaterally depriving any oblast from equal suffrage in the State Council. At its establishment in 1918, the State Council had 30 Councillors returned from the 10 original oblasts. Today, Alaska has 18 oblasts, and thus 54 Councillors currently sit in the State Council.

Since the held on 6 March 2017, the  has held the majority of seats in the State Council of the 28th Parliament.