Elections · Nov 13, 2026Midterm Update (Evening, November 13): Peltola Leads Alaska Senate Race by 5,800 Votes

Midterm Update · Evening Edition · November 13, 2026, 5:49 PM CST

The Alaska Division of Elections’ unofficial count, last updated November 12 at 6:59 PM Alaska time, shows that Mary Peltola leads Dan S. Sullivan by 5,800 votes, 125,157 to 119,357.^[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 49.08% of the votes counted and Dan S. Sullivan has 46.80%, a gap of 2.28 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 5,800 votes net.
• No candidate has more than 50% of the votes counted so far; the largest share is 49.08%.
• Votes for all other candidates and write-ins total 10,496, which is 1.8 times the margin.
• 256,817 ballots had been counted, 42.42% of 605,433 registered voters^[1].
• 0 more votes have been counted for the listed candidates than at the previous edition and the margin is unchanged at 5,800 votes.
• In the governor’s race, Kreiss-Tomkins/Johnson leads Wilson/Shower by 53,913 votes, 126,195 to 72,282.
• In the U.S. House race, Nick Begich leads Bill Hill by 18,781 votes, 123,241 to 104,460.

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 13: Deadline to receive absentee ballots mailed from within the U.
• November 18: Deadline to receive by-mail ballots mailed from overseas addresses.

Video From a Federal Election Agency

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency, published this video, titled “Be Election Ready: Making a Plan (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: Making a Plan (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]

Mississippi has posted 2026 general-election results on its official page.^[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.

Alaska Senate Margin, Edition by Edition

Each row is the margin in the Division’s count at the time of that edition.

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: Making a Plan (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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