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Voters in Alaska’s at-large congressional district are heading to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state’s nonpartisan primary election. Twelve candidates, including two Democrats and four ...
The minimum wage in Alaska at the time of the election was $11.73 an hour, an inflation-adjusted amount of the $9.75 an hour minimum wage enacted after the passage of the 2014 Ballot Measure 3. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]
Aug. 21—With nearly 97,000 votes counted the day after primary voting had ended, Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola had more votes than her 11 challengers combined. Peltola's challengers included ...
Polls closed in the state at 8 p.m. local time.
The 2024 Alaska House of Representatives election took place on November 5, 2024, as part of the biennial United States elections. [1] All 40 seats in the Alaska House of Representatives were up for election.
As expected, there was a nationwide delay in reporting election results, due to the extreme influx of absentee and mail-in ballots as a public health measure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [67] In Alaska, these delays were especially severe. Alaska mailed absentee ballot applications to every voter aged 65 and over. [68]
Alaska's House and Senate elections are both competitive, as the state government has been divided for seven years. Polls closed at 8 p.m. local time.
Democratic incumbent Mary Peltola won re-election to a full term in office, defeating Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III and Libertarian Chris Bye in the runoff count. [1] This was the second race in Alaska held under the 2020 Measure 2 election procedure.