Passage: In 1984 and 1986, he defeated Nick Begichs wife, Pegge Begich, by 113,582 votes (55.02%) to 86,052 (41.68%) and by 101,799 votes (56.47%) to 74,053 (41.08%), respectively. He defeated Peter Gruenstein with 62.5% of the vote in 1988 and then faced John Devens, the Mayor of Valdez, Alaska, in 1990 and 1992. Young defeated him by 99,003 votes (51.66%) to 91,677 (47.84%) in 1990 and then faced a serious challenge in 1992. He was challenged in the Republican primary by State Senator Virginia M. Collins and defeated her by 24,869 votes (52.98%) to 19,774 (42.12%). In the general election, he was re-elected against Devens by 111,849 votes (46.78%) to 102,378 (42.82%). This is both the lowest winning percentage of his career and the only time he has won without a majority of the vote.
Did Young defeat Pegge Begich by a bigger percentage of votes in 1984 or in 1986? Did more people vote in the 1984 general election or the 1992 general election? How many general elections did Young win with more than 50% of the vote? How many less people voted in 1986 compared to 1984? How many more people voted for Young than for Devens in 1991? How many people did he defeat from 1988 to 1992? How many times did he defeat Pegge by more than 100000 votes? In which year did Young have his closest general election contest? Which opponents of Youngs got more than 42% of the vote? Which year did Pegge have less than 11999 than another time she ran, 1984 or 1986? Which year did both parties have less votes than the previous time they had ran, 1984 or 1986? Who did Young defeat by more than 5000 votes in 1992?