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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.
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.
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.
Peltola is in two races on the Aug. 16, 2022, ballot in Alaska. One is the U.S. House special election, a ranked choice election in which she is competing against Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick ...
Peltola won her seat in a special election following the sudden death of longtime Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, in 2022. Young’s daughters and several former staffers endorsed Peltola for re ...
Polls closed in the state at 8 p.m. local time.
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 ...
Lost election contest. Mary Peltola: Democratic: September 13, 2022 – January 3, 2025 At-large: Bethel: Elected to finish Young's term. Lost re-election. Howard Pollock: Republican: January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971 At-large: Anchorage: Elected in 1966. Retired to run for Governor of Alaska. Ralph Julian Rivers: Democratic: January 3, 1959 ...