Alaska’s top-four ranked-choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.

Ballot Measure 2 — which would have repealed the state’s system of ranked choice voting and open primaries — failed by 0.2%, or 664 votes. The Alaska GOP and state’s lieutenant governor want a review of the result.

Twelve jurors are set to decide whether former state Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux is guilty of election misconduct after her long-awaited trial concluded Wednesday. LeDoux was accused by state prosecutors in 2020 of encouraging people who did not live in her district to vote for her in the 2014 and 2018 primary and general elections.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he is not taking a job in President-elect Donald Trump's administration and will instead serve out the rest of his second term as governor. For months, Alaska lawmakers and others involved with politics have openly discussed the possibility that Dunleavy could join Trump's cabinet.

Republican Nick Begich has won the state’s U.S. House race, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. Begich, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the seat that Republican Rep.

House Republicans scored a valuable pickup in Alaska's lone seat in the chamber, defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola.

Voters wait in line outside the Alaska Division of Elections Region II office on Gambell Street in Midtown Anchorage to cast their ballot in the general election as absentee in-person and early voting began on Monday, October 21, 2024. According to several voters they waited in line approximately 1.5 hours to vote. (Bill Roth / ADN)

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

Twelve jurors will now decide whether the former Anchorage lawmaker is guilty of 12 counts of election misconduct, including five felonies.

The measure to repeal ranked choice voting failed by 664 votes. Repeal opponent Scott Kendall is confident the outcome won't change.

The historic increase in representation of women came in Alaska even as voters did not reelect U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, the first woman and first Alaska Native person to represent the state in the U.S. House. Peltola was voted out in favor of Republican Nick Begich III.

Alaska's election has entered its final stage, after ballot counting concluded Wednesday. The results aren't finalized until a state review board completes its work, which is set to occur by the end of the month.