Democrats are sure to win Alaska, bringing the number of states in power to 30

(Central News Agency, Anchorage, comprehensive foreign news report on the 13th) Democratic Alaska gubernatorial candidate Chris Tomkins was confirmed to win the gubernatorial election today, successfully flipping the state's power from the Republican Party. Now the Democratic Party will control 30 states in the United States next year.

The Democratic Party won an overwhelming victory in the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. Not only did it regain control of both houses of Congress with a large number of seats, it also won 6 more states in the gubernatorial election than before the election to 30; the number of states controlled by the Republican Party dropped to 20.

NBC News reported that 37-year-old Kreiss-Tomkins will become the youngest governor in the history of Alaska and the youngest governor in the United States next year. Chris Tomkins, a former state legislator, defeated three Republican opponents this time and will replace the current Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy who is resigning due to the expiration of his term.

According to Alaska's election system, the top four candidates with the highest votes in the primary regardless of party affiliation can advance to the general election, and "ranked choice voting" will be used in the general election.

The mode of operation of the ranked-choice system is that a candidate who obtains more than half of the votes will directly win; if no one obtains more than half of the votes in the first round, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated first. The votes of the eliminated candidates will be redistributed to the remaining candidates based on the voters' second choice on the ballot. If there is still no one with a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated, and so on until someone wins the majority.

Chris Tomkins was determined to have won more than half of the votes in the first round of counting, and he was declared the winner without triggering the ranked check mechanism.

The report pointed out that former state senator Tom Begich, also a Democrat, came in second behind Chris Tomkins in the August primary election, but he subsequently announced his withdrawal from the race and successfully consolidated the Democratic vote.

The three Republican candidates in the general election are Anchorage businesswoman Bernadette Wilson, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and former state Attorney General Treg Taylor. Wilson, who was backed by US President Trump, ultimately came in second place and lost.

Chris Tomkins, who goes by the nickname JKT, won cross-party support during the campaign. The most high-profile one was the public support from Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski a week before voting day.