Preliminary election results on Tuesday showed tight margins in key Alaska legislative races with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted.
A sign directs voters to the polls at Government Hill Elementary School in Anchorage on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. showed tight margins in key Alaska legislative races with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted.
Cliff Groh was second with 36% of the vote and Lyn Franks, also a Democrat, had 20%. Groh and Franks ran mailers encouraging voters to “rank the blue,” and expected to combine their tally to overwhelm Nelson with ranked choice voting. • Republican Rep. Kelly Merrick, a moderate who has caucused with the bipartisan House majority, was more than 15 points ahead of conservative GOP Rep. Ken McCarty for an open Eagle River Senate seat. The race has been seen as a test for whether voters will reward legislators working across the aisle.
• Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member Jesse Bjorkman was around 500 votes ahead of fellow Republican Tuckerman Babcock, who is a former chair of the Alaska GOP, and nonpartisan candidate Andy Cizek trailing distantly in third place for a Soldotna Senate seat.
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