Thomas R. McGhee 85 34.69% Santa Claus 102 41.63%

Santa Claus, on the ballot in North Pole, Alaska, has won election to the City Council. Claus is a nonpartisan who trends liberal, while the second-runner-up, Thomas McGhee, is a Republican.

Since North Pole takes the top two winners in the race, McGhee has also won. Both have served on the city council before.

The vote was 102-85, with Carly Nelson picking up 55 votes, and three write ins.

North Pole is a conservative stronghold in Alaska and is the most Republican-leaning district in the North Star Borough.

In 2008, the North Pole area, gave John McCain 78.4 percent to Barack Obama’s 19.5 percent for president, and in 2010, Republican Sean Parnell beat Democrat Ethan Berkowitz by a nearly identical margin.