2022 United States Senate election in Alaska (LandonExists)

The 2022 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alaska, concurrently with the gubernatorial election, U.S. house election and other state and local elections.
Incumbent three-term Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski won re-election to a fourth term. Due to her opposition to some of his initiatives and her vote for his impeachment during his second trial, former U.S. President Donald Trump had pledged to campaign against Murkowski, implicitly endorsing a primary challenge in the process. However, due to the nature of Alaska's election process in the 2022 race, there was no formal Republican primary. Even if there was, Murkowski has survived a primary defeat before in 2010 as one of only two senators in history to have done so.
Following voter approval of Ballot Measure 2 during the 2020 elections in Alaska, this was the first U.S. Senate election in Alaska held under the new election process. All candidates ran in an all-party, open primary, from which the top four candidates advanced to the general election. Voters then utilized ranked-choice voting during the general election.
On March 16, 2021, the Alaska Republican Party voted to censure Murkowski, and formally announced that they would recruit a primary challenge to her, and prevent her as running as a Republican "to the extent legally permissible". However, partisan primaries were abolished by Ballot Measure 2, significantly reducing their chances of a successful primary challenge (in a partisan primary, only members of the party can participate), and the party could not prohibit her from associating as a Republican.
2022 United States Senate election in Alaska
 	 	
← 2016 	November 8, 2022 	2028 →
 	 	
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Nominee 	Lisa Murkowski 	Kelly Tshibaka
Party 	Republican 	Republican
Popular Vote	184,759 	169,121
Percentage 	52.21% 	47.79%
== Candidates ==
=== Republican Party ===
==== Advanced to general ====
* Lisa Murkowski, incumbent U.S. Senator (2002-present)
* Kelly Tshibaka, former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration
==== Eliminated in primary ====
* Bob Lochner, mechanic and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016
==== Declined ====
* Mike Dunleavy, Governor of Alaska (2018–present) (running for re-election)
* Laura Ingraham, author and Fox News host
* Joe Miller, former U.S. magistrate judge, nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010, candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014, and Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in 2016
* Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska (2006–2009) and nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2008
=== Democratic Party ===
==== Eliminated in primary ====
* Edgar Blatchford, member of the Anchorage school board (2021-present), professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, former mayor of Seward, former chief editor of Alaska Newspapers, Inc., former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs and the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016 and 2020
=== Alaskan Independence Party ===
==== Advanced to general ====
* John Howe, machinist and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2020
=== Independents ===
==== Advanced to general ====
* Al Gross, orthopedic surgeon, commercial fisherman, son of former Alaska Attorney General Avrum Gross, and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020
== Primary election ==
Blanket primary results
Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	%
🟥 Republican 	Kelly Tshibaka 	40,092 	31.13%
🟥 Republican 	Lisa Murkowski 	33,652 	26.13%
⬜ Independent 	Al Gross 	28,629 	22.22%
🟪 Alaskan Independence 	John Howe 	10,171 	7.89%
🟥 Republican 	Bob Lochner 	8,443 	6.55%
🟦 Democratic 	Edgar Blatchford	5,809 	4.51%
Write-ins 	Write-ins 	2,022 	1.57%
Total votes 	Total votes 	128,818	100.00%
==General election==
Vote count by round
Candidate 	Round 1	Round 1	Round 2 	Round 2 	Round 3 	Round 3
Candidate 	Votes 	% 	Votes 	% 	Votes 	%
🟥 Lisa Murkowski 	100,708	28.21% 	110,080 	30.96% 	184,759 	52.21%
🟥 Kelly Tshibaka 	132,039	36.98% 	151,014 	42.48% 	169,121 	47.79%
⬜ Al Gross 	91,540 	25.64% 	94,410 	26.56% 	Eliminated	Eliminated
🟪 John Howe 	32,769 	9.17% 	Eliminated	Eliminated	Eliminated	Eliminated
Total 	357,056	100.00%	355,504 	100.0% 	353,880 	100.0%
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