Midterms: Ballots continue to be counted, Peltola in the lead for senate

By Anna Lionas Over week after election day Alaska is still waiting for final results as absentee and questioned ballots continue to be counted. As of press time on Tuesday, in the senate race, Mary Peltola sits at 49 percent and has a 1.1 percent, or 2,517 vote, lead over incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan with 47.2 percent, of the first-choice votes. For the gubernatorial race Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, also known as JKT, is ahead with 49.9 percent of the vote and the closest candidate, Republican Bernadette Wilson is coming in with only 28.8 percent. Bronson trails with 14 percent of first-choice votes. In House District 39, 60.9 percent of voters ranked JKT first. In the race for U.S. House of Representatives, incumbent Nick Begich, a Republican, has 48.9 percent of the vote, ahead of independent candidate Bill Hill who has 41 percent of first-choice voters. In House District 39 52.3 percent of voters ranked Hill first.

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