Mary Peltola is on the verge of defeating Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, a win that would give Democrats a 56-44 majority in the chamber next year.
The race remains officially uncalled more than a week after polls closed, making it the last 2026 Senate contest without a projected winner, and Peltola's narrow lead has grown with each new batch of votes counted this week.
Alaska's mail-heavy voting rules, under which ballots postmarked on Election Day counted if they arrived by November 13, and its ranked-choice system, which eliminates the lowest finisher and redistributes second-choice votes until one candidate reaches a majority, explain the drawn-out count.