Alaska Senate Race Still Uncalled as Peltola Leads by 637 Votes; Ranked-Choice Tabulation Set for November 18

JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Senate race in Alaska remained uncalled on November 5, 2026, with the latest count from the Alaska Division of Elections showing Democrat Mary Peltola leading Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan by 637 first-choice votes — 102,962 (48.2 percent) to 102,325 (47.9 percent). Republican Gerald Heikes had 4,846 votes (2.3 percent), and Daniel J. Sullivan, a candidate who shares the senator's name, had 3,600 (1.7 percent). Of the state's 403 precincts, 298 had reported, a rate of 73.95 percent, with an estimated 74.09 percent of votes counted. The Associated Press has not called the race.

With no candidate above 50 percent, Alaska will decide the race under its ranked-choice system: the Division of Elections is scheduled to run the ranked-choice tabulation on November 18, eliminating the lowest-placed candidates and redistributing ballots by voters' next choices until one candidate passes 50 percent; the state aims to certify a winner by November 25. The next count is scheduled for November 10; absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day can still arrive through November 13 from within the United States and through November 18 from overseas.

The count so far shows Peltola ahead in early and absentee ballots and Sullivan ahead on Election Day. According to Alaska News's count early Wednesday, November 4, Peltola led early voting 28,192 to 20,566 and absentee ballots 4,777 to 3,420, while Sullivan led the Election Day vote 78,089 to 69,732. Early ranked-choice estimates differ: a Sullivan campaign memo says he would win 105,037 to 104,709 on the ballots in hand, while an Alaska Beacon analysis of the preliminary cast vote record found Sullivan gaining a net 860 votes once the other two candidates are eliminated. Neither estimate is an official result.

Peltola was the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, winning the state's U.S. House seat in 2022 and losing it in 2024; Sullivan is seeking a third term in the Senate. Democrats already hold 54 seats in the Senate after the midterm elections; the two uncalled races, in Alaska and Mississippi, will set the size of the majority rather than which party controls the chamber.

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Source: Alaska Division of Elections

Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)

Photo: 图：阿拉斯加州议会大厦。Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. Wikimedia Commons.

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