Contests in Alaska’s Senate, House, and gubernatorial races were called on Wednesday, more than two weeks after Election Day.
Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lost her latest attempt at a political comeback, losing the race for Alaska’s at-large district to Rep. Mary Peltola . Peltola had previously won a congressional special election race over the summer to finish out the term of the late-Rep. Don Young , who died in March. She is the first Native Alaskan to serve in Congress. on Wednesday celebrating her victory. She defeated Palin by about 23,000 votes, or 54.9% to 45.1%.
The centrist Murkowski, who was first elected to the Senate 20 years ago, won the ranked-choice election with 53.7% of the vote to Tshibaka’s 46.3%. Finally, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy was declared the winner in his reelection race against Democrat Les Gara and independent Bill Walker. Dunleavy prevailed by more than 50% of first choice votes.
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