“ Peltola held a significant lead in preliminary results published by the Division prior to the final tabulation – with about 40-percent of Round 1 votes, compared to 31-percent for Palin, and 28-percent for Begich. While those numbers suggested that the two Republicans would combine votes to reach a 50-percent majority in the second round – that clearly didn’t happen. Many Begich voters gave their number-2 ranking to Peltola, which was enough to give her the majority needed to win the seat.”
And at the end Peltola had 51% I believe. So..
Somebody better than I am at math can help. But does that mean about 40% of the people who voted for a Republican ranked the democrat second and the other Republican third? Why the hell would anyone do that?
A lot of this was done via mail - no surprise.
There was also supposed to have been a fourth candidate (independent) but he dropped out for no known reason.
Wasn’t very easy to find specific results, but found a local story.
https://www.kcaw.org/2022/08/31/peltola-wins-race-for-alaskas-seat-in-us-house/
“ Peltola held a significant lead in preliminary results published by the Division prior to the final tabulation – with about 40-percent of Round 1 votes, compared to 31-percent for Palin, and 28-percent for Begich. While those numbers suggested that the two Republicans would combine votes to reach a 50-percent majority in the second round – that clearly didn’t happen. Many Begich voters gave their number-2 ranking to Peltola, which was enough to give her the majority needed to win the seat.”
And at the end Peltola had 51% I believe. So..
Somebody better than I am at math can help. But does that mean about 40% of the people who voted for a Republican ranked the democrat second and the other Republican third? Why the hell would anyone do that?
A lot of this was done via mail - no surprise.
There was also supposed to have been a fourth candidate (independent) but he dropped out for no known reason.
Lots of weird things to unpack here.