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 will be 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 congresswoman Mary Peltola. The election will be 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 U.S. Forest Service employee Daniel J. Sullivan and Republican perennial candidate Gerald Heikes.
Democrats have not won a Senate election in Alaska since 2008.
Latest coverage of the Alaska US Senate race
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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 Our Connecticut county names are decades out of date, and Alaska's at-large district is missing a census area it must contain.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.