Democrats added a Colorado House seat while a larger count extended former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s Alaska Senate lead, a result that could increase the party’s margin in a chamber it has already won.
Alaska’s Nov. 14 unofficial results showed Peltola with 140,637 votes (49.94%) and Sen. Dan Sullivan with 129,424 (45.96%). The updated count left Peltola 11,213 votes ahead. The Associated Press had not called the contest.
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a separate candidate who shares the senator’s surname, received 4,652 votes. The two Sullivan candidates totaled 134,076 votes, 6,561 fewer than Peltola.
Democrats have secured control of both chambers, so the Alaska result may affect the size of their Senate majority, AP’s election results show. EconoTimes previously explained how the Alaska race could affect the Senate balance.
In Colorado, Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, defeated three-term incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert in the 4th Congressional District Friday, the Associated Press reported. President Donald Trump carried the district by more than 18 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election. Boebert said in a video on her social media account that she called Laubacher to congratulate her. EconoTimes previously covered Laubacher’s lead over Boebert.
Alaska voters again rejected a proposal to end the state’s open-primary and ranked-choice system, AP reported, marking the second rejection in two years. The state plans to conduct a ranked-choice tabulation Nov. 18 if every candidate remains below 50% of first-choice votes.
