The initial results of Alaska’s unofficial election night results are up with many more ballots yet to count. The margins are expected to change over the next 15 days as tens of thousands of absentee and early ballots are tallied and added to the final results.
With nearly 96% of prisincts counted Gov. Mike Dunleavy is comfortably ahead; U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka holds a slight lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola has 47% of the vote in the U.S. House race. The effort to call a statewide constitutional convention is failing 30.16% to 69.84%, and all 29 judges on the ballot are headed for retention.
The state sent out nearly 55,000 absentee ballots with roughly 36,000 returned as of Nov. 7. None of those are included in the election night totals. Additionally, another 19,000 outstanding absentee ballots have until Nov. 23 to be returned by voters, so long as they were postmarked by Nov. 8.
The state had also received nearly 35,000 early ballots. Those cast on or before Nov. 3, are included in the election night totals. All others will be tallied over the next two weeks.
Given the fact that so many absentee ballots will be counted after election night, a number of races state legislative races will likely see changes, as happened in 2020 when several candidates who were ahead on election night wound up losing in the end.
Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that Alaska is now using ranked choice voting for the first time in a general election. Contests in which a candidate wins more than 50% of the vote won’t proceed to second or third round runoffs. All other races, however, in which no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote, will employ the ranked-voting scheme. The results of those races won’t be known until Nov. 23.
With all these caveats in mind, here are the unofficial results as of Nov. 9.
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Looks like the waiting game starts. Will we have an honest count? Will rank choice put one over on all Alaskans? I guess time will tell for us. I for one think this stinks. I always enjoyed to excitement of election night. Now we have to wait and see. No parties or sitting on pins and needles waiting for tge last districts to tally and report their counts. It’s like no real voting day until ot all comes out on the 23rd. It just stinks.
Looking at the senate race: .. So, with Rigged Choice Voting, does Lisa Demkowski get the lower ranked candidates votes to push her on top.. again ??? This Rigged Choice Voting system, and those nice democrat vote tabulator machines need to hit the trash bin.
Looks like the red wave missed alaska. We’re officially a blue craphole.
Alaska Legislature appears to me precincts except the outliers been tallied showing Alaska may end up with a 10R/9D Senate and 20R/20R House. Pray. Democrats sent maybe 15 of its own democrat House members who would be considered radical revolutionaries. 15-18 ? democrat members who have no reverent fear of God.
Alaska Legislature appears to me precincts except the outliers been tallied showing Alaska may end up with a 10R/9D Senate and 20R/20D House. Pray. Democrats sent maybe 15 of its own democrat House members who would be considered radical revolutionaries. 15-18 ? democrat members who have no reverent fear of God.
What a worthless voting system we have!
Did I read that correctly, only 1/3 of registered voters voted? What’s it going to take to rid ourselves of the Rank Choice Voting?
This article is misleading IMO. To me this election looks to me like utter disaster, with solid wins (soon be be) for Mary P, Lisa M once the second round is counted (do the math and make some predictions on who the Dems will vote #2). Even worse, if by chance Mary P does fall, Sara P will win over Nick B. I’m sorry, but this is disaster.
I’m sorely disappointed. Cons have completely lost on abortion. There is no red wave at all. And regarding economics, it’s even worse: if the general public won’t leave Dems in the dust after this inflation, covid, and trans lunacy…when can we get solid wins? Somebody tell me I’m wrong, but I just can’t see anything good about the election but Dunlevy, and thank God for him.
So happy that Alaskans chose moderation, bipartisanship and logic over lies and hate.
Mary and Lisa have won in the Senate! All thats left is to finish counting the democrat-leaning absentee ballots. Nick begich’s voters will send enough to Peltola’s side(just like last time). And the Dem voters in the house will have heavily leaned toward ranking Murkowski second.