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Posted on 10/08/2025 5:36:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Alaska's City of Fairbanks Mayor David Pruhs, a Republican, conceded to Mindy O'Neall, a Democrat, in the mayoral election on Tuesday night.
According to unofficial election night results made available by the city of Fairbanks, O’Neall received 1,808 votes (54 percent) and Pruhs received 1,528 votes (45.7 percent).
Newsweek has contacted Pruhs and O'Neall for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.
Why It Matters
The ballot in mayoral elections in Fairbanks does not list party affiliations next to candidates’ names, but Republicans have held the role in Fairbanks for nearly a decade.
Pruhs, a conservative backed by local Republicans, was elected mayor in 2022. O’Neall, the presiding officer of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, was endorsed by the Alaska Democratic Party.
Democrats flipping the seat comes as the party hopes to compete in statewide contests for the Senate and House in 2026. The state has only elected one Democratic senator since 1981 and only one Democratic House member since 1973. President Donald Trump easily won the state by double digits in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
What To Know
Pruhs conceded the race to O’Neall on Tuesday night as he trailed by more than 250 votes.
“The race is over. Mindy O’Neall won. A few votes yet to be counted, but I'm down by 250 votes. The voters have spoken,” he told Alaska’s News Source.
Pruhs blamed low voter turnout and O’Neall having the support of the state Democratic Party for his defeat.
“It was a perfect storm for her to take the seat, and she did that. So congratulations to Mindy O’Neall,” he said.
O’Neall “had a very engaged Democratic Party statewide and local parties to help her,” he said. “When you have an entire state Democratic Party focused on one race, it's hard to rebuff that.”
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3336 total ballots cast?
Sounds like nobody showed up.
IN A POPULATION OF OVER 30,000—ONLY 3500 VOTED????????
Only Democrats care about voting in off-year elections.
We too often get the government we deserve.
A loss in the middle of nowhere and suddenly it’s the end of the world. HaHa...
It doesn't.
But the media is desperate for any Democrat win to hype as some kind of bellwether against Trump.
There was probably a blizzard and the real count was 1-0 because she voted for herself.
We haven’t yet. But we are beginning to. Once President Trump is gone, we will.
That is a major problem.
There was a city that had a.... let's just call it a problem town board. But they were elected with 80% of the vote.
The vote was held at an odd time and only about 2% of the people voted.
People kept asking how this could happen. Because you didn't go vote.
About 3200 Federal employees are in the Fairbanks area. Roughly 10% of the population. Looks like they may not have chosen to support the Republican this time around. I fear this may be the tip of the iceberg. We’ll see if they avoid Republican candidates in Va & NJ too in a couple of weeks.
“””A loss in the middle of nowhere and suddenly it’s the end of the world. HaHa...””””
A small town mayor race could set the tone for the entire world and collapse society as we know it. Maybe.
It's quite a shame that democrats hate when anything good gets done for America and Americans.
According to the borough website, 961 absentee ballots remain outstanding, while 489 question ballots remain to be examined by the canvassing board, meaning a potential 1,450 ballots could be added to the total, although some of the absentee ballots may not be returned, and some ballots may not be deemed eligible by the board.
Yes, a very low turnout election, but I don’t know why the mayor is conceding as there are 1450 ballots outstanding in a race with less than a 300 vote margin.
October election day seems odd. I can’t beleive they get snowed in by November 1.
The vote tally report show 3,362 total votes and a registration of 22,248, so a third of the population is not even registered to vote.
New jersey? They love their democrats.
That's correct...so why wasn't the entire state Republican Party focused on it in response?
Once again, our side naps while the other side plots.
Naps?
FWICS, Pruhs is yet another RINO loosely posing as a real Republican. For the GOP to have real viability, they have to purge the de-facto Democrats—but remember that this has been going on in the GOP for over a century.
NJ is primarily democrat in the Rt 1 corridor. On either side of that, it is even or Republican. Unfortunately the Rt 1 corridor is where the heaviest population lives.
Alaska has ranked choice voting. I wonder if that applies in local elections too.
The ranked voting didn’t cause this. This should not have happened. The rats have never been more motivated. They are lit. This is not the first time. Our side better wake up.
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