Incumbent Republican David Pruhs lost his bid for reelection as mayor of historically red Fairbanks, Alaska , to Democratic candidate Mindy O’Neall.

O’Neall, who had the backing of the state’s Democratic Party , received 1,808 votes compared to Pruhs’s 1,528 votes. The 280-vote margin puts a Democrat back at the helm of the second-largest Alaskan city for the first time in nearly a decade.

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