Alaska voters have rejected an effort to abolish ranked-choice voting, although it took election officials 10 days after Election Day to call the race.The Associated Press called Ballot Measure 2 on Friday night, with approximately 96 percent of Alaska’s ballots counted.The measure would have scrapped the state’s controversial ranked-choice voting system and open primaries, returning Alaska to partisan primaries and traditional general elections.Alaska voters stick with ranked-choice voting, again https://t.co/tJLqwl3aoS— POLITICO (@politico) November 14, 2026The campaign was supported by President Trump and Elon Musk, who donated $1.5 million to the campaign supporting its repeal.According to official tabulations, approximately 53.5 percent had voted against repeal, compared with 46.5 percent who supported it.The result means Alaska will retain the system voters originally approved in 2020 and began using in 2022.It is the second consecutive election in which Alaskans have rejected an attempt to repeal ranked-choice voting.The 2024 repeal effort was much closer, failing by just 743 votes after late-counted ballots overturned the initial Election Night advantage held by supporters of repeal.Ranked-choice voting has been particularly useful for RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski, enabling her to stay in power by winning the second-choice votes of Democrats.Murkowski, who was elected as a Republican, recently endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins as the state’s governor.RINO Lisa Murkowski Endorses Democrat Candidate for Alaska Governor: “a View and a Perspective That I Think Alaska Needs Right Now” (VIDEO)/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i