Karl Speights
Karl Speights (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Alaska. He lost in the primary on August 16, 2022.
Speights completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Karl Speights was born in Anchorage, Alaska. Speights has served in the U.S. Air Force. He earned a graduate degree from the National Defense University National War College in 1980. Speights' career experience includes owning a business and working as a car restorer. He has been affiliated with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, AMAC, NRA, Gun Owners of America, American for Prosperity, and DAV.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Alaska, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Alaska
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Lisa Murkowski in round 3 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 263,027 |
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Alaska
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate Alaska on August 16, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lisa Murkowski (R) | 45.0 | 85,794 |
| ✔ |  | Kelly Tshibaka (R) | 38.5 | 73,414 |
| ✔ |  | Patricia Chesbro (D) | 6.8 | 12,989 |
| ✔ |  | Buzz Kelley (R) | 2.1 | 4,055 |
| Pat Nolin (R) | 1.1 | 2,004 | ||
 | Edgar Blatchford (D) | 1.0 | 1,981 | |
 | Ivan Taylor (D) | 1.0 | 1,897 | |
 | Samuel Merrill (R) | 0.8 | 1,529 | |
 | Sean Thorne (L) | 0.7 | 1,399 | |
 | Shoshana Gungurstein (Independent) | 0.4 | 853 | |
 | Joe Stephens (Alaskan Independence Party) | 0.4 | 805 | |
 | John Schiess (R) | 0.4 | 734 | |
 | Dustin Darden (Alaskan Independence Party) | 0.3 | 649 | |
 | Kendall Shorkey (R) | 0.3 | 627 | |
 | Karl Speights (R) | 0.3 | 613 | |
| Jeremy Keller (Independent) | 0.2 | 405 | ||
 | Sid Hill (Independent) | 0.1 | 274 | |
 | Huhnkie Lee (Independent) | 0.1 | 238 | |
| David Darden (Independent) | 0.1 | 198 | ||
| Total votes: 190,458 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Sam Little (R)
- Elvi Gray-Jackson (D)
- Shellie Wyatt (Alaskan Independence Party)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Karl Speights completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Speights' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I WILL STAND AND FIGHT ...AS THE PATRIOT'S VOICE
- I LOVE GOD, COUNTRY, AND THE AMERICAN FAMILY; every Leftist-One World Government attack is against those three!,
- OUR FORE FATHERS WARNED US ...TAKE GOD OUT OF AMERICA, AND YOU WILL DESTROY AMERICA
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 12, 2022
