In Alaska's local elections, a cruise ship limit fails, races are close, and Santa Claus returns

Voters in Alaska’s capital city have rejected a resident-written ballot proposition that would have banned large cruise ships on Saturdays and the Fourth of July.

Tuesday was municipal election day for most of Alaska’s cities and boroughs, and in preliminary results in Juneau, about 60% of participating voters sided against the “ship-free Saturdays” initiative. Some ballots have yet to be counted but are not expected to change the result.

Elsewhere across the state, municipal elections saw voters decide mayors and city councilors as well as ballot initiatives.

No local issue in Alaska was more closely watched than Juneau’s cruise ship proposal. Juneau, population 32,000, welcomes more than 1.6 million cruise ship passengers per year, and opponents of the proposal indicated in campaign finance reports that they spent $600,000 on a campaign to block it.



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