• With voting complete in Alaska’s special U.S. House race on Tuesday — the state’s first ranked choice election — Democrat Mary Peltola was leading Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III in early returns with the most first-place votes, but the winner won’t be known until the last ballots are counted later this month.
• This year Alaska’s party primaries have been replaced with open primaries – the top four runners advance to the poll.
• Palin is also running in a separate special election to serve the remaining five months of Republican Don Young, who died in March after serving for 49 years.

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