Alaska Rep. Peltola Defeats Sarah Palin, Will Serve Full Term in Congress

As Breitbart News explained:

All candidates from all parties appear on the ballot together in the August primary. The top four vote-getters regardless of party then advance to the general election, and their voters are given the opportunity to pick their top choice, as well as their second and third choices. If no candidate in the first round of voters’ first choices gets 50 percent of the vote, the last place candidate’s second choices are distributed across the remaining three candidates to see if someone can get across the majority threshold. If that fails again to produce a majority vote-getter, then a third round is conducted where the third place candidate’s votes are redistributed according to second choices between the remaining two candidates.

The outcome might have been different if Palin was not vying for Republican votes with fellow GOP candidate Nick Begich.

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Sarah Palin attends the Get Out the Vote Rally in Anchorage, AK, on November 6, two days before the midterm elections (Courtesy of Sarah Palin).

“As Republicans turned on one or another, it allowed [Peltola] to stay above the fray and to talk about issues and, again, to define herself as she wanted,” political consultant Matt Shuckerow said.

Palin is on record opposing the ranked-choice voting system. “I do not believe in this system. It should not be embraced by enthusiastic participation when we know it’s not right,” Palin said.