Peltola’s goal in the elections was to prevent extremist movements from winning.
Alaskan a former Democratic state legislator Mary Peltola defeated his opponent, who tried to come back Sarah Palin’s in the House of Representatives elections held on Wednesday, reports the Reuters news agency.
At the same time, Peltola becomes the first Native Alaskan to represent the state in the US Congress. Almost a fifth of Alaska’s population is indigenous or their descendants.
49 years old Peltola won the former Republican governor Palin’s vote percentage 51.47 to 48.53. Palin is especially remembered for her failed vice presidential bid in 2008, when John McCain lost the presidential election For Barack Obama.
Peltola succeeds a Republican representative who died earlier this year Don Young’s for the remainder of the season. Peltola is running in the Nov. 8 election for a full two-year term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Arable land according to campaign pages, his goal in the election was to prevent extremists from winning. During his campaign, he emphasized that he was “the only candidate in the election who is not a multi-millionaire”.
Mary Peltola is married for the third time. Her spouse, of Nebraskan descent Gene Peltola works in the Alaska Regional Office for Native Affairs.
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