Here's a decent commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska_special_general_vote_breakdown/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comme

Here's a decent commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska_special_general_vote_breakdown/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska... > Two popular suspicions are now confirmed. Nick Begich was the Condorcet winner. Sarah Palin was a spoiler candidate - her presence caused Mary Peltola to be elected, by prematurely eliminating Nick Begich. Here's another, that got down-voted to hell, because of the audience. https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/xb119e/its_official_alaskas_first_rank_choice_voting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/xb119e/its... > If 2913 voters who supported Palin first and Begich second flipped their first and second preferences, they’d have gotten a more preferred result. (i.e. they would have gotten Begich instead of Peltola, by having Palin eliminated first) > Even worse, if instead 5825 of those same types of voters just decided not to vote, they’d have also gotten a better result. So merely participating in the election hurt them. While I do prefer the winner it selected, it's not a great election method. Better than FPTP is a terribly low bar.