Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich III moved closer to defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola after 38,000 Alaska ballots were counted Tuesday. Begich was ahead by 10,133 votes before Tuesday’s ballot count. He now leads by 9,550 votes, or just over 3%.
Alaska elections officials are set to release additional election results on Tuesday from tens of thousands of voters, which could shape the results of several tight races, including Alaska's U.S. House race.
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Race for Alaska’s only US House seat too early to callAlaska voters were deciding a hard-fought race for the state’s only U.S. House seat that could help decide control of that chamber.
On the line is control of both legislative chambers, which can have a significant impact on the types of bills that become law and how the Legislature works with Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
GOP challenger Nick Begich led in first round of the state’s unusual ranked choice balloting, but was unable to get a majority, meaning another tabulation will be required.
Begich, an entrepreneur who lives in Chugiak, is a Republican from a prominent Democratic family. If his lead holds, he’ll win the seat once held by his grandfather. Congressman Nick Begich, D-Alaska, was campaigning for reelection in 1972 when his chartered plane disappeared enroute to Juneau.
While final results and tabulation are still a few weeks away, preliminary election results can tell us a lot about the future of ranked choice voting, the minimum wage, and the makeup of the 2025 legislature.
View live results of the Alaska presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Results timing: First results are expected around 1 a.m. Eastern time. Some absentee ballots will be counted late on election night, with subsequent counts taking place up to 15 days later. In federal and state races, any second ranked-choice tabulations would occur after 15 days.
On Tuesday night, the Alaska Division of Elections added more than 38,000 votes to the state’s electoral count.
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No leaders change as 1,500 more ballots are added to Alaska’s election countAlaska elections officials added about 1,500 more votes to the state’s election total on Wednesday as workers continued to count ballots from Election Day. That work remained unfinished by the end of the day, with some precincts still unreported. In addition, tens of thousands of votes cast before Election Day remain uncounted.
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