The margin has grown in the defeat of a measure to repeal Alaska's open primary and ranked choice voting system.
“I voted” stickers are seen on display in the headquarters offices of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. were made official on Saturday, after the state review board finished certifying the results. Here are five takeaways from the final results:The margin between the votes rejecting the repeal of the state’s open primary and ranked choice voting system and those in favor of it grew.
Trump won Alaska by a bigger margin than 2020, but the state is trending away from Republicans compared with other states Because there were more than 15,000 more people registered in the state, the turnout percentage drop was relatively steep, from 60.67% in 2020 to 55.8% this year. However, the number of registered voters is actually higher than the number of voting eligible people in the state, since voter registration is nearly universal, while legal requirements mean it can take years for voters who leave the state to be removed from the rolls if they don’t notify the Division of Elections.
In Southeast Alaska, House District 1, which includes Ketchikan, voted more Republican than four years earlier, while Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley continued to move toward the Democrats. Begich’s defeat of Peltola returns the state to the all-Republican congressional delegation it has had since 1981, with the exception of Peltola’s two-plus years in the U.S. House and Begich’s uncle Mark Begich’s six years as a U.S. senator, from 2009 to 2015.
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