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Alaska Election Results
Alaska held its first ranked choice general election on Tuesday. A candidate can win outright if he or she receives more than 50% of first-place vote. If not, it goes to the ranked choice tabulation. The tabulation happens on Wednesday, Nov. 23.
Governor
Mike Dunleavy (GOP) – 52.06% (Winner)
Les Gara (Dem) – 23.07%
Bill Walker (NP) – 20.1%
Charlie Pierce (GOP) – 4.55%
AP estimate: 80% reported
Senate
Kelly Tshibaka (GOP) – 44.22%
Lisa Murkowski (GOP) – 42.84%
Patricia Chesbro (Dem) – 9.52%
Buzz Kelley (GOP) – 2.93%
AP estimate: 80% reported
Mary Peltola (Dem) – 47.26%
Sarah Palin (GOP) – 26.57%
Nick Begich (GOP) – 24.19%
Chris Bye (Lib) – 1.73%
AP estimate: 80% reported
Hawaii Election Results
Republicans made slight gains in Hawaii, but the State remains in overwhelming Democratic control. The Hawaii State House will receive a total of 16 new representatives, while six new members will join the Senate after Tuesday’s election. Democrats hold such commanding majorities in both the House and Senate that the large turnover will have little effect on the leadership or the political leanings of either chamber.
While Republicans gained two seats in the State House that will only boost the total Republican count in the 51-member House from four to six. The partisan breakdown in the Senate is 23 Democrats and two Republicans. In the gubernatorial election, Lt. Gov. Josh Green captured a decisive win Tuesday against Republican James “Duke” Aiona to become Hawaii’s next governor.
Oregon Election Results
Governor’s Race
Democratic Oregon gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek held off Republican Christine Drazan in a close race. Tina Kotek was former state House speaker and continues the complete dominance Democrats have held over the governor's mansion. While Christine Drazen made a strong race of it, the “coming home” of Democratic voters to Kotak and away from former Democrat turned independent Betsy Johnson allowed Kotak to pull off the victory.
Congress
Incumbent Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon handily won re-election, as did Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Cliff Bentz and Earl Blumenauer in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. Bonamici and Blumenauer are Democrats; Bentz is a Republican. In Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, Democratic nominee Val Hoyle declared victory on Tuesday night.
In the 5th District, Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer's currently holds a narrow lead over Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner. This race has not been called.
In the 6th District, Republican Mike Erickson is narrowly behind Democratic state Rep. Andrea Salinas. This race has not been called.
State Senate
Heading into the election Republicans needed to win seven races to tie the Senate or eight to capture a majority. As of Wednesday, Democratic candidates were clearly winning 11 of the 16 seats up for re-election.
Democrats will likely hold 16 or 17 of the seats in the Senate come January, maintaining their majority but losing the three-fifths supermajority needed to pass any laws raising state taxes.
Election results indicate Republican state Rep. Suzanne Weber, R-Tillamook, will flip the 16th Senate District on the northwest coast and the north half of Salem, long represented by retiring Democratic Senate President Peter Courtney, appears likely to have a Republican senator: Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer,
State House
Democrats are also on track to maintain their majority in the state House, where the eventual outcome of several races remained unclear. Democrats have commanding leads in 30 of the 60 districts, Republicans had strong leads in 20 districts and 10 remained close.
In the House, it takes 36 votes to pass tax legislation.
The close House races include:
- Two Marion County races where Republicans lead in districts represented by retiring Democrats.
- Three incumbent Democrats remain in too close to call tough elections.
- Democrats hold slim leads in three open districts.
- Republicans hold slim leads in two other open districts.
- Republicans need to capture one seat in a race currently being led by Democrats to break supermajority.
Washington Election Results
Trends for House and Senate Races
Although many votes remain outstanding, early results from Tuesday suggest that there will be continued comfortable margins of control for Democrats in both the House and Senate.
In the Senate, Democrats are trending to hold all three of their most vulnerable seats, and they are leading in a race to pick up an additional seat in the 42nd Legislative District that is currently held by Republican State Senator Simon Sefzik. If these trends were to hold up, the current 28-21 Senate D majority would increase to a 29-20 Senate D majority for the 2023 Legislative Session.
In the House, Democrats are currently holding leads in all of their “defend” seats with D incumbents or in open seats that have been held by a D. Democrat challengers are leading in three races for seats that are currently held by Republican incumbents or in open seats that have been held by an R. If these trends were to hold up, the current 57-41 House D majority would increase to 60-39. The vote totals for all races will fluctuate in coming days as new ballots are counted, but it is clear that House and Senate Democrats will continue to enjoy comfortable margins of control in 2023.
The only election for a statewide state position was for Secretary of State, where Democrat incumbent Steve Hobbs appears to be holding a comfortable advantage over Julie Anderson, with a margin of about 50%-47%.
Washington’s Congressional Delegation appears to be headed for re-election, with the exception of the 3rd Congressional District, where Republican Joe Kent is trailing Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 52.6%-46.8%. U.S. Senator Patty Murray appears to have comfortably survived a challenge from Republican Tiffany Smiley with an early lead of 56.9%-42.9%.
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