{"id":90745,"date":"2022-08-30T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/u-s-house-race-results-to-be-webcast-this-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T18:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T02:23:17","slug":"u-s-house-race-results-to-be-webcast-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/u-s-house-race-results-to-be-webcast-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Peltola makes history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

This is a developing story with updates in process.<\/em> <\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Mary Peltola is slated to be the first Alaska Native member of Congress after prevailing by a wider-than-expected margin over Republican Sarah Palin, 51.47%-48.54%, in the state’s first-ever ranked choice election, according to results tabulated Wednesday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Peltolawill also be Alaska’s first Democratic U.S. representative in over 50 years and first-ever woman elected to represent the state in the House if the results become official. She won by earning enough second-choice votes among people ranking Republican Nick Begich III as their first pick. The Democrat had a nearly 9% lead on first-choice ballots and the 35% of second-choice votes she received enabled her to withstand the anticipated near-even final tally against Palin.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Begich, the presumed favorite in the race earlier this year, finished third among the final candidates and thus was eliminated at the onset of Wednesday’s tally that was livestreamed at 4 p.m<\/a>. by the state Division of Elections. The ranked-choice tabulation took only a few minutes, with Palin getting 27,042 second-choice votes, Peltola 15,445 and 11,222 declared “exhausted” with no second-choice candidate.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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