Republican candidate Jeremy Bynum received just under half the votes in the Aug. 20 primary election for state House District 1, easily outpolling two independent candidates in a preview of the Nov. 5 general election.
The three candidates are competing to replace Rep. Dan Ortiz, who is retiring for health reasons after 10 years in the Legislature.
The district covers Ketchikan, Metlakatla and Wrangell, plus Coffman Cove on Prince of Wales Island.
All three candidates live in Ketchikan, whose larger population dominates the district. About 2,000 of the 2,527 votes cast in the primary came from...
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