Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has taken the lead over Trump-backed Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the state's first ranked choice general election.
Alaska Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka weighs in on delay in the Senate election results and Sen. Lisa Murkowski on 'Hannity.'has taken the lead over Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the ranked-choice Senate contest that won't be resolved until at least next week.
Under Alaska's ranked-choice voting system, voters must list the four candidates who advanced from a jungle primary in order of who they prefer to win. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes on Election Day, the counting proceeds to a second round where the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. People who voted for that candidate have their votes redistributed to their second-choice.
Based on the known results, Republican Buzz Kelley will be eliminated in the first round, holding less than 3% of the total vote., Patricia Chesbro, currently has just 10.4% of the vote and will be the next to be eliminated. There are 34,358 votes between these candidates that will be redistributed to voters' second-choice candidates.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski asks questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Sept. 30, 2021., moderate, and staunch ally of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Murkowski has antagonized her party's conservative faction for decades but proved resilient against would-be challengers. In 2010, she lost the Republican Senate primary to Tea-Party candidate Joe Miller, but went on to win that election as a write-in candidate.
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