Alaska Senate Race Remains Uncalled With 25% Uncounted as Sullivan's Lead Looks Fragile
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 4
Alaska Senate Race Remains Uncalled With 25% Uncounted as Sullivan's Lead Looks Fragile
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 4
Summary
About 25% of Alaska's vote remains uncounted, leaving Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan only narrowly ahead of Democrat Mary Peltola and the race too close to call.
Election Day ballots have mostly been reported, but Sullivan is running about 12 percentage points behind Donald Trump's 2024 margin in 27 districts that had finished those tallies by 5 a.m. Eastern.
Most remaining ballots are mail votes expected to favor Peltola, including ballots postmarked by Election Day that can arrive in the following days; Alaska will keep counting them and provisional ballots until Nov. 18.
The key question is whether either candidate clears 50% to win outright; if not, ranked-choice tabulation will begin only after the Nov. 18 counting deadline.
That late-count uncertainty is compounded by ballot-ranking behavior and the presence of Gerald L. Heikes and Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., factors that could scramble the final ranked-choice outcome.