The Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Alaska, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, has managed to prevail over the Republican candidate, Bernadette Wilson, and will take control of this state for the first time in more than 20 years, according to official data released by the DDHQ portal.
With 90% of the votes from the past November 3 already counted, Kreiss-Tomkins adds 50.8% support, compared with the 28.1% obtained by Wilson. The other two candidates in the race, Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor, also of the Republican Party, have garnered significantly less backing.
At 37 years old, Kreiss-Tomkins is in a position to become the youngest governor Alaska has ever had and the first Democrat to win in this territory since 1998. In this way, he is set to replace the current Republican officeholder, Mike Dunleavy.
Polls anticipated at the start of the campaign a comfortable Republican victory. Later, the surveys narrowed the gap until they predicted a technical tie and, already in September, they began to reflect a tilt favorable to the Democrats that has now materialized at the ballot box.