Peltola and Senator Sullivan are leading in the U.S. Senate primary in Alaska
Democrat Mary Peltola and incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan are leading in the nonpartisan primary for the U.S. Senate in Alaska, according to The Guardian World. According to the publication, with 73% of the votes counted, they remained the frontrunners among the Democratic and Republican candidates, respectively.
In the previous count, when 66% of the votes had been tallied, Peltola had 46.8% and Dan S. Sullivan had 44.4%. Another Republican candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, received 2.4%.
Incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan, who has represented Alaska in the Senate since 2015, is running for a third term. Peltola was previously elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska; in 2022, she became the first representative of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples and the first woman to represent the state in the House of Representatives.
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Dan J. Sullivan is a 70-year-old former teacher and U.S. Forest Service employee from Petersberg in southeastern Alaska. His name appears on the ballot immediately after that of the incumbent senator. Republicans claimed that he ran to interfere with Senator Sullivan’s campaign, but in June, the Alaska Supreme Court upheld his right to run and ordered election officials to include him on the ballot.
Under Alaska’s nonpartisan primary rules, the four candidates with the highest vote totals advance to the general election in November.
