Alaska US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Alaska.
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What the Alaska US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. Alaska voters fill it alongside all 1 of the state's House seat and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
How Alaska votes
Alaska's elections are shaped by oil and gas revenue, fisheries, Native communities, and the practical distances of a state without a road to most of itself. Its ranked-choice system and independent streak make statewide races harder to call than its overall lean suggests. That backdrop is the ground any Alaska campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Alaska. Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan is seeking a third term. He is being challenged by Democratic former representative Mary Peltola. The election is conducted under ranked-choice voting.
A nonpartisan primary election was held on August 18 to determine the four candidates in the general election. Peltola and Sullivan were the first to advance with 49.5% and 41.4% of the vote respectively, followed by Republican former teacher Dan J. Sullivan and Republican perennial candidate Gerald Heikes.
Dan J. Sullivan's candidacy drew allegations of being a spoiler due to having the same name as the incumbent, but was allowed to remain on the ballot by the state Supreme Court and listed as unaffiliated to help avoid confusion. The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block the election results if Dan S. Sullivan loses by a small margin, arguing this outcome could result from him sharing a name with another candidate. The lawsuit is under appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. If elected, Peltola would be the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate election in Alaska since Mark Begich in 2008, the first Alaska Native senator, and the first senator from the state to have previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives since achieved its statehood in 1959, the last remaining state to do so.
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Every Alaska House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Alaska state page.
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Two things this site gets wrong about Connecticut and Alaska
A standing corrections note. Our Connecticut county names are decades out of date, and Alaska's at-large district is missing a census area it must contain.
One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.
New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.