Over 38,000 Alaska ballots were counted on Tuesday, with tens of thousands still to be counted.
An election official counts absentee ballot envelopes at the Division of Elections Region II office in Anchorage on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.
State election officials have chosen to initially count only Alaskans’ first-choice votes. If neither Begich nor Peltola gets more than 50%, the winner would then be decided by the state’s ranked choice tabulation process on Nov. 20. After Tuesday, Begich has 49.1%. Peltola has 45.81%. Alaska Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe had 3.87%. Democrat Eric Hafner had 1%.
• Fairbanks Democratic Sen. Scott Kawasaki is ahead against Republican challenger Leslie Hajdukovich by 351 votes after more than 2,000 ballots were counted on Tuesday. Kawasaki had led by 74 votes.
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