Alaska primary

2022 - 8 - 17

Murkowski advances in Alaska Senate race, Palin in House (NPR)

Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice ...

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Lisa Murkowski and Sarah Palin Survive Primary Battles, but a ... (The New York Times)

The independent streak of Alaskan voters played a part in both races as Ms. Palin's attempt at a political comeback could be threatened.

On Tuesday in Anchorage, hours before the polls closed, she and Ms. Palin since Ms. Palin and Ms. His true ideological opponent over the direction of the state was Ms. Many voters disapproved of the persona and rhetoric that Ms. In a different analysis, the Republican pollster Matt Larkin believed it was most likely that Ms. Michener’s husband became a pastor at Ms. Murkowski’s main challenger, Ms. She and Ms. Murkowski and Ms. Trump, who made a rare visit to the state in July to promote Ms. Palin was governor and Ms.

Alaska Primary Update: Lisa Murkowski Leads Kelly Tshibaka at ... (Newsweek)

Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced to the general election from Tuesday's primary, ...

In contrast, her rival Tshibaka has rallied with Trump and has the support of Alaska's GOP. Earlier on Tuesday, Murkowski told reporters that "what matters is winning in November," while Tshibaka has described the results of the primary as "the first step in breaking the Murkowski monarchy's grip on Alaska." The fact that Murkowski seems likely to finish first in Tuesday's primaries could be a sign that she might be the voters' favorite in the fall. Murkowski leads ahead of Tshibaka with 42.7 percent of the vote against the former commissioner in Alaska's Department of Administration's 41.4 percent, according to the latest results from the Associated Press. While the votes are still being tabulated, the two GOP candidates have clearly earned two of the slots in the race that will see only the top four vote-getters among a total of 19 candidates in Alaska's open primaries advance to the November election. Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced to the general election from Tuesday's primary, according to preliminary results.

Sarah Palin advances to November's general election for Alaska's ... (NBC News)

In the Senate all-party primary, Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka are among the candidates advancing to the general election.

[finished first](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/sarah-palin-advances-special-alaska-house-race-primary-rcna33151) in a nonpartisan June primary to secure one of the four spots on Tuesday's special election ballot. Al Gross, an independent who finished third in the June primary, [later withdrew](https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-alaska-campaigns-government-and-politics-f234dea296e5b808f7b5b8940c9eedfc), leaving three candidates. The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and ballots cast for that candidate are recast for the voter’s second choice. That contest is the state’s first to use ranked-choice voting, and NBC News projects no candidate will receive a majority of the vote in the first round. Don Young’s term](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rep-don-young-alaska-longest-serving-member-congress-dies-88-rcna20719&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1660697433888064&usg=AOvVaw3P9N0rOq7jnmt835ZlCmRk) — a race that also features Palin, who has Trump's endorsement — is too early to call. It was too early to call the fourth finisher in that contest, as well.

Murkowski Advances in Alaska Despite Trump; Palin Moves Ahead (Bloomberg)

Republican Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka -- a former state official backed by Donald Trump -- both advanced to a general election race ...

Alaska moderates see success in legislative primary results (Anchorage Daily News)

Democrats are looking at the possibility of forming a bipartisan Senate majority after Tuesday's election results.

In the 40-seat House of Representatives, there has been a bipartisan majority coalition for the past four years. Cathy Tilton, the House minority leader, has been “encouraged” by the primary election results, which she says lean toward the GOP forming a slim majority in its own right with 22 or 23 legislators. [primary system](https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/10/17/ballot-measure-2-would-change-the-way-alaskans-vote-for-statewide-candidates-and-those-running-for-the-legislature-heres-how/), which is open to candidates and voters of any party. Democratic Anchorage Assembly member Forrest Dunbar is well ahead of two Democrats and a Republican in an open East Anchorage Senate race, and Democratic Rep. Babcock, who is firmly against ranked choice voting and wants to repeal it if he’s elected, is ahead in an open Kenai Peninsula Senate seat after Republican Senate President Peter Micciche chose not to run for reelection. Tom Begich, D-Anchorage, is not running for reelection, but he’s tracking the primary results closely, and he agrees with [proponents](https://www.adn.com/opinions/2020/10/07/ballot-measure-2-will-improve-alaskas-elections/) of the open-primary system that it could benefit moderates in the long term. There are currently six Democrats in the 20-seat Alaska Senate, but the party is hoping that could increase to nine, which Kawasaki said would be “a huge coup.” [six incumbent Republican state legislators](https://www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2020/08/27/losses-confirmed-for-six-republican-incumbents-but-another-remains-too-close-to-call/) lost their primary races against largely more conservative opponents, and some moderates, like Kodiak Sen. Kelly Merrick for joining the bipartisan majority coalition in the House of Representatives. “This is indicative of where Alaskans really are,” Begich argued about the primary results. This is his eighth election, but he’s never outperformed the leading Republican at a primary election and has always had to come from behind in November. All but one legislative contest had fewer than five candidates, erasing some of the drama of a traditional primary.

Murkowski advances in Senate primary in Alaska, Palin in House race (Los Angeles Times)

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski will bid for reelection in November, while Republican Sarah Palin advanced in the race for Alaska's only House seat.

Dunleavy and his running mate, Nancy Dahlstrom, said in a statement that this “is only the start of the race. In the race for Alaska governor, Republican Mike Dunleavy, Democrat Les Gara and independent Bill Walker advanced to the November general election. Peltola, Begich and Palin were also competing in a special election to serve the remainder of late Rep. The special election was voters’ first shot at ranked voting in a statewide race. In the House primary, Palin, Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Nick Begich advanced to the November election. The top four vote-getters in a primary race, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.