Editing Alaska (section)

===Elections===
{{See also|Ranked-choice voting in the United States|Nonpartisan primary}}Alaska has a history of primary defeats for incumbent U.S. Senators, including Ernest Gruening, Mike Gravel, and Lisa Murkowski. However, Murkowski won re-election with a write-in campaign. Despite this, Alaska has also seen long-serving members of Congress, such as Ted Stevens, who served as a U.S. Senator for 40 years, and Don Young, who held Alaska's sole U.S. House seat for 49 years (from 1973 to 2022).

In the [[2020 Alaska elections|2020 election]] cycle, Alaskan voters approved Ballot Measure 2.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kitchenman|first=Andrew|date=November 17, 2020|title=Alaska will have a new election system: Voters pass Ballot Measure 2|work=[[KTOO-TV|KTOO]]|url=https://www.ktoo.org/2020/11/17/alaska-will-have-a-new-election-system-voters-pass-ballot-measure-2/|access-date=December 23, 2020|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118052421/https://www.ktoo.org/2020/11/17/alaska-will-have-a-new-election-system-voters-pass-ballot-measure-2/|url-status=live}}</ref> The measure passed by a margin of 1.1%, or about 4,000 votes.<ref name=":0b" /> The measure requires campaigns to disclose the original source and any intermediaries for campaign contributions over $2,000. The measure also establishes non-partisan primaries, sometimes called jungle primaries, for statewide elections (like in [[Washington (state)#Elections|Washington state]] and [[California#Government and politics|California]]) and [[Instant-runoff voting|ranked-choice voting]] (like in [[Maine#Politics|Maine]]).<ref name=":0b">{{Cite web|title=Alaska Ballot Measure 2, Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting and Campaign Finance Laws Initiative (2020)|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Top-Four_Ranked-Choice_Voting_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020)|access-date=December 23, 2020|website=[[Ballotpedia]]|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113225630/https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Top-Four_Ranked-Choice_Voting_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020)|url-status=live}}</ref> Measure 2 makes Alaska the third state with nonpartisan primaries for all statewide races, the second state with ranked choice voting, and the only state with both.

The 2022 special election to fill Alaska's only U.S. House seat, left vacant by the death of Don Young, was won by Mary Peltola. She became the first Democrat to win the House seat since 1972 and the first Alaskan Native elected to the United States Congress in history. After winning a full term in the 2022 general election, Peltola lost reelection in 2024 to Republican Nick Begich III.<gallery mode="packed" widths="80" heights="120" perrow="5" caption="Alaska's statewide elected officials">
File:Mike Dunleavy official photo (cropped).jpg|[[Mike Dunleavy (politician)|Mike Dunleavy]], [[List of Governors of Alaska|Governor]]
File:Lisa Murkowski official photo.jpg|[[Lisa Murkowski]], senior [[List of United States senators from Alaska|United States senator]]
File:Senator Dan Sullivan official.jpg|[[Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)|Dan Sullivan]], junior United States senator
File:Rep. Nick Begich III (119th Congress) (3x4 full).jpg|[[Nick Begich III]], [[Alaska's at-large congressional district|U.S. representative]]
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