US Midterm Elections 2026
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Democrats made major gains in the 2026 US midterms, but several key races remain too close to call. Alaska's Senate race, where Democrat Mary Peltola leads Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by 626 votes, may go to ranked-choice voting; tight contests also remain in the Alaska and Kansas governor races, the Mississippi Senate race and the Los Angeles mayoral election.
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A Democratic romp in the midterms has rocked the US political landscape, but several closely contested races remain too close to call.
- Alaska Senate: Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is seeking to retain his seat against Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, who has a 626-vote lead. If neither candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, then it will go to ranked-choice voting under Alaska law.
- Alaska governor: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is facing off against Republican Bernadette Wilson. Kreiss-Tomkins’s share of the vote is 49.2 percent with an estimated 74 percent of ballots counted.
- Kansas governor: Democrat Cindy Holscher has a lead of less than a percentage point over Republican Ty Masterson. Holscher’s lead is 5,557, with an estimated 98 percent of the votes counted.
- Mississippi Senate: Democratic candidate Scott Colom leads Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 43 votes with an estimated 96 percent of votes counted.
- Los Angeles mayor: Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass is locked in a tight contest with Nithya Raman, who is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Bass has 48.9 percent of the vote, compared with Raman’s 51.1 percent, with an estimated one-third of the ballots uncounted.
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station inside a shopping mall in Anchorage, Alaska, on November 2, 2026 [Charly Triballeau/AFP]
