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[4] [5] In the general election, Murkowski garnered more than 100,000 write-in votes. Miller challenged 8,000 of those votes. [6] The Associated Press and the Alaska GOP called the race in Murkowski's favor on November 17. [6] [7] Miller did not concede the race and instead filed legal challenges in federal and state court. [8]
Murkowski was re-elected with 44.4% of the vote, becoming the first person in history to win three elections to the U.S. Senate with pluralities but not majorities, having taken 48.6% in 2004 and 39.5% in 2010. [4] Miller's 29.2% finish was then the best ever for a Libertarian candidate in a U.S. Senate election in terms of vote percentage.
But the sharp reaction also reflected the influence Murkowski has and is unafraid to wield. Murkowski was abandoned by GOP leaders in 2010 after her primary loss to tea party Republican Joe Miller. She went on to win the general election with a write-in campaign and kept her seat.
In 2012, Murkowski submitted a biomass-related amendment for inclusion in the Tribal Energy Bill that contained a provision for tribes to be authorized to become involved with rural biomass energy demonstration projects, as Murkowski insisted that the bill did this only for tribes in the Contiguous United States and not Alaska. Murkowski called ...
The projections come after the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday night revealed the results of the state's new ranked-choice voting system and are some of the last outstanding races of the ...
Murkowski was the only Republican who was up for reelection who had voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second Senate impeachment trial. Murkowski and Peltola win reelection in ...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is projected to win her bid for reelection to the U.S. Senate, defeating fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka. The Associated Press called the race just after 8 p.m ...
On March 16, 2021, the Alaska Republican Party voted to censure Murkowski and announced that it would recruit a Republican challenger in the 2022 election cycle. Kelly Tshibaka, a former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration, was endorsed by Trump and the Alaska Republican Party.