Alaska Senate election in bitterly tight race
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See the latest Alaska U.S. Senate election results as Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) faces Democrat Mary Peltola in a tightly contested Senate race.
The Alaska Senate race has yet to be called, as the state continues to count remaining mail-in ballots. Democrat Mary Peltola holds a small lead with nearly 80% of the vote in, but if neither candidate receives a majority of the vote, a ranked-choice tabulation will take place on Nov. 18.
In the latest count, Democrat Mary Peltola led Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by 637 votes. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., the retired Petersburg teacher who shares the senator’s name, drew 3,600. That is the exact situation the Justice Department went to court to address: Sullivan trailing by fewer votes than his namesake received.
Elusive Alaska Senate candidate Daniel J. Sullivan, who ran in the midterms as a Republican against an incumbent who shares his name, is married to a woman who donates to Democrats — including his main opponent in the US Senate race, Mary Peltola, according to campaign finance filings.
In 2024, about 75 percent of votes were reported on election night, and the remaining votes were reported between seven and fifteen days later. Ranked-choice voting is used in federal and state races;
One day after the Alaska Senate’s bipartisan coalition announced key leadership positions, the incoming majority coalition in the Alaska House announced its leadership including that Anchorage
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The second Dan Sullivan drew 1.7%. Jailed Democrat Eric Hafner drew 7.3%, Alaska’s bigger spoiler.
