2006 Alaska gubernatorial election
November 7, 2006
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The 2006 Alaska gubernatorial general election took place on November 7, 2006. Former Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin defeated incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, and then went on to defeat Democratic former governor Tony Knowles and independent Andrew Halcro in the general election. Palin became the first governor of the state to be born after Alaskan statehood.
Palin would later become the unsuccessful Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election before resigning as governor in 2009.