2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2
2024 referendum
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Alaska Ballot Measure 2 was a ballot initiative that was voted on in the November 5, 2024, general election. The ballot measure narrowly failed to pass.[1][2]
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November 5, 2024
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An Act Restoring Political Party Primaries and Single-Choice General Elections | ||||||||||
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If enacted, it would have repealed Alaska's electoral system of ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries, which was enacted by Alaska Measure 2 from 2020, and return the state to partisan primaries and plurality voting.[3] A Ballot measure that would repeal ranked-choice voting as well as eliminate campaign finance provisions that is intended to reduce the influence of dark money in Alaska elections as in the original ballot measure will appear in the 2026 United States elections.[4]
Background
The 2020 measure established ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan top-four primaries for all Alaskan state and federal elections except presidential primaries. It passed with a narrow margin of 1%, with supporters of the measure outspending opponents by more than 10 to 1.[5]
In the 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Democrat Mary Peltola won over the two Republicans who had advanced to the general election, Nick Begich III and Sarah Palin.[6][7] This, along with the nonpartisan primary preventing a primary challenge to centrist Republican senator Lisa Murkowski in 2022, led to Republicans increasingly opposing the new system.[8]
Supporters of the initiative have said that Alaska's voting system should be repealed due to being confusing and vulnerable to manipulation, while opponents have said that the system should remain in place due to being more inclusive and giving voters more choices.[3][8]
Opponents of the measure outspent supporters 100 to 1.[9]
Endorsements
- State senators
- Mike Shower, state senator from district O (2018–present)[10]
Polling
| Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size[a] |
Margin of error |
For | Against |
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| Alaska Survey Research[b] | January 12–18, 2023 | 1,397 (RV) | ± 3.0% | 53% | 47% |