JKT tops 50% of first-choice votes for Alaska governor, Republican opponents concede

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat, is declaring victory in Alaska’s gubernatorial election. In results posted Thursday night by the Alaska Division of Elections, Kreiss-Tomkins had more than 50% of the first-choice votes for governor in this year’s election, putting him above the threshold for a ranked choice runoff. CNN declared him the winner against three Republican challengers on Thursday night. The Associated Press has not yet called the race, and the Alaska Division of Elections is not scheduled to certify the result until Nov. 25. Preliminary final results are expected Nov. 18. “It was a team effort every step of the way, and we always believed we could (win),” Kreiss-Tomkins said on Monday. “So it’s really really gratifying to have that official race call, or whatever CNN calls it, to kind of put some punctuation on the sentence.” Kreiss-Tomkins was the lone Democrat in a field of four candidates seeking to replace Republican Gov.

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