ALASKA
      Nov. 8, 2016 U.S. Senate

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+Lisa Murkowski (R) i
 138,149
 44.36%
Joe Miller (L)
 90,825
 29.16%
Margaret Stock (I)
 41,194
 13.23%
Ray Metcalfe (D)
 36,200
 11.62%
Craig A. Brock (NA)
 2,609
 0.84%
Ted Gianoutsos (NA)
 1,758
 0.56%
write-ins
 706
 0.23%

311,441
Registered Voters 528,671.  Ballots cast 321,271.
Plurality 47,324 votes (15.20 percentage points)
 AK Division of Elections



Notes: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in Dec. 2002 by her father after he was elected governor, and elected in 2004 and 2010, won re-election by a comfortable margin.  In the primary she defeated three challengers with 71.52% of the vote.  In the general election her most formidable opponent was Joe Miller. 

Miller, making his third run for Senate, entered the race in Sept. 2016 as a Libertarian after the winner of the Libertarian primary stepped aside.  (In 2010 Miller defeated Murkowski in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, but she ran a write-in campaign in the general election and won.  In 2014 he lost the Aug. 19 Republican primary to former Alaska Attorney General and Commissioner of Natural Resources Dan Sullivan). 

The 2016 Democratic nominee, Ray Metcalfe, a former Republican state rep. and founder of the Republican Moderate Party, did not run much of a campaign.  Indeed former Sen. Mark Begich (D) endorsed the independent candidate Margaret Stock, who was also endorsed by The Centrist Project. 

The FEC reported for 2015-16 the Murkowski campaign made total disbursements of $7.0 million compared to $742,959 for Stock, $411,184 for Miller and $14,186 for Metcalfe (>).

Campaign Managers:
Lisa Murkowski  Steve Wackowski
Remote sensing operations manager for Fairweather Science, LLC in Anchorage.  Professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and press secretary to the late Senator Ted Stevens.  Communications director on Murkowski's 2010 campaign.  Commission in the Air Force Reserve from UC-Berkeley’s Air Force ROTC program.  B.S. in computer science from Saint Mary's College of California.  Grew up in Anchorage and and Ninilchik.

Joe Miller  ?

Margaret Stock: Jane Sheehan
(July 2016)  A regional field director on Bernie 2016, Dec. 2015-May 2016.  Worked for Public Outreach Fundraising, May 2009-Mar. 2015, starting as a fundraiser and finishing as fundraising and training manager.  Studied marketing at Simmons College.


See also:
Archives of Women's Political Communication at Iowa State University: Lisa Murkowski.









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