After 16 days of waiting, the final 5,800 ballots in the Nov. 5 election were counted on Wednesday. In all, there were 340,510 ballot cast and counted in this election, for a turnout of 55.72%.
Then, it was ranked-choice tabulation at the Division of Elections in Juneau, when the results for those in ranked-choice races were finalized. There were only a handful of races that went into the tabulation.
In the ranked-choice system, it’s a series of runoffs that are tabulated by computer, with the persons getting the least amount of votes eliminated and the voters’ second or third choice is then assigned to the candidate they indicate. Only those races with three or more candidates and no candidate getting more than 50% of the vote on the first round went into the ranked-choice system.
The final count, before ranked-choice tabulation, can be seen here for all races on the ballot.
In the House District 18 race, there were only two candidates and no ranking. Republican David Nelson flipped the seat by beating Democrat incumbent Cliff Groh, 1,878 to 1,855 — 23 votes. The overseas military votes made a difference in this race, which will probably go to a recount.
Congress: Republican Nick Begich beat Peltola 164,117 to 155,763 votes.
Senate District D: GOP Sen. Jesse Bjorkman won over Ben Carpenter, 9,800 to 8,113.
Senate District F: Republican Sen. James Kaufman won over Democrat Janice Park, 8,651 to 7,731.
Senate District L: Republican Sen. Kelly Merrick beat Jared Goecker 9,892 to 7,938.
House District 6: Republican Rep. Sarah Vance beat Brent Johnson 5,634 to 5,148.
House District 28: Republican Elexie Moore beat Steve Menard, 3,241-3,228
House District 36: Republican Rebecca Schwanke won over 4,048-Kowalski 3,104
House District 38: Democrat Nellie Jimmie beat C.J. McCormick, 1,421. to 1,363
House District 40: Democrat Robyn Burke beat Saima Chase, 1,388 to 921
Ballot Measure 2 – Repeal Ranked-Choice Voting failed.
Yes to repeal was 159,955
No to repeal was 160,619
