Summary
Alaska voters rejected Ballot Measure 2, which would have repealed the state’s ranked-choice voting system and restored party primaries and single-choice general elections. Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins won the governor’s race outright, while the Senate contest between Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan remained unresolved as counting continued.
Key Facts
- Unofficial results released November 13 showed 53.52 percent of voters opposed repealing ranked-choice voting and 46.48 percent supported repeal.
- Ballot Measure 2 also proposed repealing campaign finance rules designed to identify the sources of political donations.
- Kreiss-Tomkins received 50.81 percent of first-choice votes in the governor’s race, and Republican Bernadette Wilson conceded.
- Peltola had 138,240 votes, or 49.84 percent, in the Senate race; Dan Sullivan had 127,828 votes, or 46.09 percent.
- Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher, advanced through the open primary alongside Senator Dan Sullivan, putting two similarly named candidates on the November Senate ballot.
- A state judge overturned officials’ decision to exclude Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. from the primary ballot, and the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the ruling.
- Alaska uses an open primary in which all candidates appear on one ballot and the top four advance to the general election.
- Alaska scheduled ranked-choice tabulations for November 18, after officials review and count the remaining eligible ballots.
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