In Alaska’s legislative elections, a handful of races remain undecided nail-biters

In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, candidates in two different Alaska House of Representatives elections are separated by five votes, according to preliminary, partial ranked choice runoff data published by the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday night. The winners of those two races are not expected to change the balance of power in the Alaska House, which is on course to be controlled by a multipartisan coalition, but they would be significant in determining who represents the state’s fastest-growing region in that chamber. The Division of Elections doesn’t perform its official ranked choice runoff until Nov. 18, the deadline for the last absentee ballots to arrive internationally, but it publishes preliminary data that allows observers to conduct their own unofficial ranked choice tabulations.

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