Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. At 07:46 CET, Mary Peltola led Dan S. Sullivan in the Alaska Senate race by 252 votes, 48.1 to 48.0 percent with 54.3 percent of the expected vote counted, according to NBC News, based on AP data. No winner has been called. A Democrat has not won an Alaska Senate race since 2008. Almost all of Alaska's polls were set to close at 8 p.m. Alaska time on 3 November, which is 06:00 CET on 4 November, and ranked-choice rules apply: a candidate with more than 50 percent of first-choice votes wins outright, otherwise a ranked-choice tabulation follows on 18 November. Mary Peltola, a Democrat who represented Alaska in the US House from 2022 to 2025, challenges Senator Dan Sullivan, who is running for a third term.