Elections · Nov 5, 2026Midterm Update (Afternoon, November 5): Peltola Leads Alaska Senate Race by 637 Votes

Midterm Update · Afternoon Edition · November 5, 2026, 3:30 PM CST

The Alaska Division of Elections’ unofficial count, last updated November 4 at 2:11 PM Alaska time, shows that Mary Peltola leads Dan S. Sullivan by 637 votes, 102,962 to 102,325.^[1]

Alaska: The Count

Alaska is the one tracked state whose count the state itself publishes in a form this monitor can read, so the figures below are the Division’s own.^[1]

What the Numbers Show

These are calculations on the official figures above. They describe the count as it stands and do not predict how the remaining ballots will break.

• Mary Peltola has 48.02% of the votes counted and Dan S. Sullivan has 47.72%, a gap of 0.30 percentage points^[2].
• For Dan S. Sullivan to take the lead, the votes still to be counted would have to favour Dan S. Sullivan by more than 637 votes net.
• No candidate has more than 50% of the votes counted so far; the largest share is 48.02%.
• Votes for all other candidates and write-ins total 9,141, which is 14.4 times the margin.
• 215,906 ballots had been counted, 35.66% of 605,433 registered voters^[1].
• In the governor’s race, Kreiss-Tomkins/Johnson leads Wilson/Shower by 42,103 votes, 103,837 to 61,734.
• In the U.S. House race, Nick Begich leads Bill Hill by 19,624 votes, 105,647 to 86,023.

What Alaska’s Election Officials Say

The Division lists the 2026 general election results status as “Unofficial.”^[3]

In accordance with Alaska law, all general elections will be conducted by Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).^[4]

The Division’s own calendar lists these upcoming dates:^[5]

• November 5: Questioned Board begins review of questioned ballot envelopes.
• November 5: Determine precincts for hand count verification (HCVP).

Video From a Federal Election Agency

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency, published this video, titled “Be Election Ready: Election Results (ASL) – 2 Minute.” It is a public-domain U.S. government work.^[6]

Public-domain U.S. government video: U.S. Election Assistance Commission, November 2, 2026 — “Be Election Ready: Election Results (ASL) – 2 Minute”. Matched to this story by shared names and terms in its title; watch the original for full context.

The Candidates

These are the official portraits of the two leading candidates in the Alaska Senate count. A portrait is an identification aid, not a statement about the result.

National Picture (AP Count)

The Associated Press tally below is a secondary source; official counts are the states’, and certified results come later.^[9]

Uncalled races AP is tracking outside Alaska:

• Mississippi U.S. Senate: Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, the incumbent, by 1,724 votes (49.0% to 48.9%) with an estimated 96% of votes counted.
• Kansas Governor: Democrat Cindy Holscher leads Republican Ty Masterson by 7,045 votes (50.3% to 49.7%) with an estimated 99% of votes counted.

Mississippi’s official results page did not link 2026 general-election results when this edition was built.^[10] Kansas’s official results page did not link 2026 general-election results when this edition was built.^[11]

The full picture is on our live election tracker.

How to Verify This Yourself

• The Division’s live results map: elections.alaska.gov/enr/26GENR.
• The Division’s official summary report: Election Summary Report (PDF).
• Our live national tracker: 2026 Midterm Election Tracker.

References

1. Alaska Division of Elections. (2026). 2026 General Election, statewide results [Data set]. elections.alaska.gov — primary source (the feed behind the Division’s own results map). ↩
2. Alaska Division of Elections. (2026). Election Summary Report, November 3, 2026 (unofficial results) [PDF]. elections.alaska.gov — primary source; its official percentages count write-in votes in the total. ↩
3. Alaska Division of Elections. Election Results. elections.alaska.gov/election-results — primary source. ↩
4. Alaska Division of Elections. General Election Information. elections.alaska.gov/election-information — primary source. ↩
5. Alaska Division of Elections. Ranked Choice Voting (upcoming events calendar). elections.alaska.gov/ranked-choice-voting — primary source. ↩
6. U.S. Election Assistance Commission. (2026). Be Election Ready: Election Results (ASL) – 2 Minute [Video]. YouTube — U.S. government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). ↩
7. U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola. Mary Peltola, official portrait [Photograph]. Wikimedia Commons — public domain (U.S. government work). ↩
8. United States Senate. Dan S. Sullivan, official portrait [Photograph]. Wikimedia Commons — public domain (U.S. government work). ↩
9. The Associated Press. (2026). 2026 U.S. election results. apnews.com — secondary source: AP’s own tally, not an official certification. ↩
10. Mississippi Secretary of State. Election Results. www.sos.ms.gov — primary source, the state’s official results page. ↩
11. Kansas Secretary of State. Election Results. sos.ks.gov — primary source, the state’s official results page. ↩

This update is produced by an automated monitor (scripts/midterm_news.py) that uses fixed rules and no language model. Figures are copied from the sources cited and checked against the Division’s own PDF report; statements are quoted word for word; nothing is estimated or predicted. A count that goes down between editions holds the post for a person to check.

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