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The primary election will occur on August 18, 2026. [1] Incumbent Nick Begich III was elected with 51.22% of the vote in 2024, narrowly defeating then-incumbent Mary Peltola, the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the House since 1972. [2] [3] [4] The race will be conducted using ranked-choice voting.
Alaska Ballot Measure 2 was a ballot initiative that was voted on in the November 5, 2024, general election. The ballot measure narrowly failed to pass. [1] [2]If enacted, it would have repealed Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting.
A ballot measure was narrowly rejected by voters which would have returned the state to its traditional first-past-the-post voting system, reversing the 2020 Ballot Measure 2 which created the ranked choice, multi-round voting system that governed the 2022 and 2024 elections.
More than two weeks after polls closed, it's official: By the narrowest of margins, Alaska will keep its ranked choice voting (RCV) system. In 2020, Alaskan voters passed Ballot Measure 2, which ...
None of the four candidates on the general election ballot drew a majority of first place votes Tuesday in Alaska’s ranked choice voting system, meaning another tabulation will be needed to ...
None of the candidates in the Alaska Senate race received 50% of the vote, meaning the state's rank-choice voting system will decide which candidate will represent the state in Congress.
A 2006 law established that ranked-choice voting would be used when judicial vacancies were created between a primary election and sixty days before a general election. The law also established a pilot program for RCV for up to 10 cities in 2007 and up to 10 counties for 2008; to be monitored and reported to the 2007–2008 General Assembly ...
Alaska made history in 2020 when it became the second state after Maine to vote to enact ranked-choice voting for federal and state elections. The ballot measure created an open primary where all ...