2022 United States gubernatorial elections (SophiaNyberg Scenario)

The 2022 United States Gubernatorial Elections were held on November 8, 2022, along with a New York runoff on November 22, 2022 and a Georgia runoff on December 7, 2022.
== Alabama ==
Incumbent Kay Ivey (R) easily won re-election.
== Alaska ==
Incumbent Mike Dunleavy (R) was unpopular with Alaska voters, especially Democrats, over his education policies. The Populist Party of Alaska, which had recently been significantly boosted by Senator Lisa Murkowski's party switch, decided to run a ticket of State Representative Neal Foster for Governor and State Senator Lyman Hoffman for Lieutenant Governor. Immediately after this announcement, a notable independent candidate for governor, Bill Walker, withdrew and endorsed the Foster-Hoffman ticket. The ticket also ran in the Democratic primary and beat former state representative Les Gara to win the endorsement of the party. Mike Dunleavy picked Nancy Dahlstrom as his new running mate after his original one, Kevin Meyer, refused. Only Dunleavy's Republican, Hoffman's Populist and Democratic, Charlie Pierce's Republican, and Christopher Kurka's Republican tickets were able to proceed to the first round of ranked-choice voting. The lieutenant gubernatorial nominee of another Republican ticket for governor, Edie Grunwald, withdrew from the ballot and endorsed the Hoffman-Foster ticket. No ticket earned a 50% majority, but Dunleavy was in a lead. In the first instant runoff, Kurka was eliminated, and most Kurka voters voted for Hoffman in protest of the two-party system. However, no ticket had a majority. In the second instant runoff, Pierce was eliminated, which boosted Dunleavy. However, this small boost was not enough to overcome Hoffman's narrow lead, powered by several thousand votes from Kurka. This led to Hoffman winning. Hoffman became the first third-party governor of Alaska since 1994, although then-governor Wally Hickel, unlike Hoffman, was not supported by a major party.
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