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).
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.
That turnout is depressing.
It’s not that depressing.
Local election turnout is single digit to ~15% in big cities. It’s higher in rural areas, but still well below state and federal races.
15-20% is normal for a local election in Fairbanks, from what I read. So this would be higher than most population centers but low end of normal for this electorate.
Seems on par with local council elections in the UK.
My town is about the same size as this “city” and the turnout is pretty similar.
People are pretty disconnected with politics in general. The national elections only get half-decent turnout because they spend tens of millions on ad campaigns before it.
Local politics. Eh I usually don’t bother.
32000 people in the city, so that’s like… 10%?
Crazy low
Turnout was 15% per a local journalist’s blog. That’s lower than the 15-20% it normally is, but not crazy low.
A mayoral race in a town with 31k people, clearly the start of the blue wave… 🙄
MOAR!
You dumbfucks let trump happen, again. Now fix your stupid American problems - sincerely the civilized world.
The civilized world better beware that America is not just ahead of the scary times. Some of the right-wing movements in Europe, in particular are downright frightening, and close to winning elections.
Because centrists like Macron and Jeffries keep trying to shove unpopular market-centric bullshit on to people. Human beings in general haven’t gotten worse, our leadership class has.
we’re big tent parties! But only the right side matters
Oh! This is just the beginning… Just watch the first Tuesday in November, when a lot of special elections happen. ;)
But, the real stuff won’t happen until November, 2026 – which will be the mid-terms where a bunch of our Senate and Congressional seats will be up for elections…
Litmus test is the Virginia election. All of their statewide positions occur during the odd years. And this year, the governor is up for grabs.
Yeah, that will be a big one to watch in just a few weeks.
Just wait. The dumbfucks will sit it out again. smugly confident because of some polls say, or because their bellybutton lint changed color again and it’s too much for their virtue signalling personalities to handle, or something. Lazy disconnected people will just make up any excuse and point fingers away from them every time.
I won’t say there isn’t room for concern, especially as there are quite a few people that are starting to think that the issues between the parties are irreconcilable. And the problem is, one party seems more disingenuous than the other – at least that’s my perspective.
All of the problems really are stupid, aren’t they?
I saw a video yesterday of a dude in the passenger seat of a car lighting up some fireworks which then exploded in the car.
Nobody made him do it. As it happened he clearly had no idea what to do. Everything was going fine until he decided to light the fireworks.
If you don’t understand WHY those fireworks had to be lit right then and there then clearly you don’t understand Freedom.
Freedumb
Please for the love of God convince your reps to send their militaries and help us before this shit gets too locked down.
Fairbanks had a democratic mayor from 2013-16, which was very surprising to me. And to my mother who grew up there in the 60s.
https://thealaskacurrent.com/2025/10/09/fairbanks-progressives-win-near-sweep-in-local-elections/
This blog, which I think may be using “progressive” wrongly, says that Ds won all other contested spots but 1 school board seat. An uncontested race went to R, but a “late forming” write in campaign still garnered a quarter of the vote.
These signs seem promising, but the blog post makes it seem like local factors may have played a large role. That would speak against taking it as a bellwether. The post claims the victory is “less of a shock” to those watching local politics, which again to me suggests local factors looming large.
That’s a really low turnout for a city of around 30,000 people. Like under 20% low, assuming 20,000 adults of voting age.
Don’t you have to dig yourself out of a snow bank to go anywhere?
Not at this time of year
Have Republicans won anything recently?
How recently? I mean, they won control of all 3 branches of our government.
I mean, have they won any special elections since they took over the government? It seems like a lot of elections are flipping but maybe that’s selection bias.
Gerrymandering districts!
Supreme Court cases.
Installing fascism in the United States…?
