Democrat flips Alaska governor's mansion after Trump-backed GOP infighting
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska's gubernatorial election, defeating Trump-endorsed Republican Bernadette Wilson and flipping the governor's mansion.
Key points
- Trump publicly criticized fellow Republicans Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor, accusing them of dividing conservative voters and potentially jeopardizing the party's hold on the governorship.
- The system has added an unusual dynamic to Alaska politics, allowing multiple candidates from the same party to compete in the general election without a traditional partisan runoff.
- The contest also came as Alaska remained a reliably Republican state in presidential elections, despite occasionally electing Democrats and independents to statewide office.
ALASKAN POLITICAL SCION HOPES TO HOLD ONTO STATE'S SINGLE HOUSE SEAT Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state representative from Sitka, emerged as the Democratic contender, seeking to return his party to the governor's mansion after Dunleavy's two terms.
Additional details
- Bronson, a former Anchorage mayor, and Taylor, a former Alaska attorney general, remained part of the Republican field, creating a complicated general-election contest.
- SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated and those ballots are redistributed according to voters' next preferences.
- He is the first Democratic governor in Alaska since 1998.
- The election unfolded under Alaska's ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
- Alaska's gubernatorial election became an unusual contest as Republicans battled among themselves over who should succeed Gov.
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