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The 2022 Alaska House of Representatives elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, with the primary election on August 16, 2022. [1] Voters in the 40 districts of the Alaska House of Representatives elected their representatives, in conjunction with state senate elections and the biennial United States elections for federal offices.
Peltola was one of only five House Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections who won (or flipped) a district that Donald Trump had carried in the 2020 presidential election. [ a ] She outran Joe Biden 's vote share by more than 20%, the highest overperformance of any House Democrat in the midterms.
Congressional districts in the United States are electoral divisions for the purpose of electing members of the United States House of Representatives. The number of voting seats within the House of Representatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the 2020 United States census. [1]
The 2022 Alaska at-large congressional district special election was held on August 16 to fill the seat left vacant after the death of Republican incumbent Don Young. [2] Mary Peltola was elected in a 3-way race against former governor Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III in the election, becoming the first Alaska Native and woman to represent ...
On August 31, 2022, Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Republican former governor Sarah Palin in the special election to replace Don Young, who died on March 18 of the same year and was the longest serving Republican in the history of the House and was the most notable person to represent the district.
All 40 seats of the Alaska House of Representatives were up in this election. Since 2016, the house had been governed by a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and some Republicans. The coalition was re-elected to a majority, albeit with only 20 of the total 40 seats in the chamber, with 6 Independents and 1 Republican joining all 13 Democrats.
California's 38th congressional district, 2003-2013. After the 2000 census, the California State Legislature was obliged to complete redistricting [a] for House of Representatives districts (in accordance with Article 1, Section 4 of the United States Constitution) as well as California State Assembly and California State Senate districts.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska's at-large congressional district, and thus the state of Alaska. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from ...