Mary Peltola’s Path to Winning Alaska Senate Race Outright
Summary
With 88 percent of votes counted, Democrat Mary Peltola led incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, but she had not reached the 50-percent-plus-one threshold needed to win outright. About 35,000 votes were estimated to remain, and Peltola would need roughly 19,445 of them to avoid ranked-choice tabulation.Key Facts
- Peltola had 125,157 votes, or 49.2 percent, with 88 percent of votes counted.
- Sullivan had 119,357 votes, or 47 percent, and trailed Peltola by 5,800 votes.
- Republican candidate Gerald Heikes had 5,490 votes, or 2.2 percent.
- Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. had 4,199 votes, or 1.7 percent.
- Alaska’s ranked-choice system eliminates the last-place candidate if no one wins an outright majority, then redistributes votes according to voters’ next choices.
- Alaska accepts domestic mail ballots postmarked by Election Day through November 13; overseas ballots can arrive through November 18.
- An estimated 35,000 votes remained, and Peltola needed roughly 56 percent of them to reach an outright majority.
- A count update that added 5,578 votes gave Sullivan 2,836 votes and Peltola 2,561, narrowing Sullivan’s deficit to 3,975 votes.
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