Our updated story: Mary Peltola will be the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress. “I will have that distinction,” she says. “But I think what’s most important is that I’m Alaskan and being sent to represent all Alaskans.”
Mary Peltola hugs her husband, Gene “Buzzy” Peltola, as results are tallied on Wednesday. Wednesday was also Peltola’s 49th birthday.
Peltola, who surpassed Palin by three percentage points, will be the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress. The unofficial results of Alaska’s first ranked choice election were announced Wednesday afternoon on a livestream from the Division of Elections office in Juneau. “We’ve only just begun to fight for Alaska I feel like,” she said. “This is just, you know, the call to arms, you guys.”In a speech to supporters, Palin also questioned election integrity and again criticized the state’s new ranked choice voting system. She later told reporters she “does not anticipate” challenging the results of the election in court.
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