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2026 Alaska Senate race

Dan S. Sullivan (Republican), Mary Peltola (Democrat), Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. and Gerald L. Heikes (Republican), who advanced from Alaska's all-party primary, are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. Senate in Alaska, as recorded September 21, 2026.

The November ballot

Sullivan
$12M
Peltola
$19M
Heikes
No report

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.

Certified list: Alaska Division of Elections. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Dan S. Sullivan

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2015 · Age 61

104
Trades disclosed
$2.1M
Estimated volume
Cosponsored S. 4134, the Stop Insider Trading Act

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Alaska

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 30 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

Nonpartisan primaryTop four advance

The primary · 166,004 votes

  • Mary Peltola Advanced: 49.5% 82,244
  • Dan S. Sullivan Advanced: 41.4% 68,726
  • Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. Advanced: 2.5% 4,107
  • David Leslie (withdrew): 1.1% 1,850
  • Gerald L. Heikes Advanced: 1.0% 1,741

11 more candidates in the full results at the source named below.

Every candidate runs on one ballot and the top four advance to November, whatever their party. Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Alaska Division of Elections official primary summary. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$30M
Outside money
$54M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Sullivan$8.8M
Opposing Sullivan$22M
Supporting Peltola$3.9M
Opposing Peltola$18M
Supporting Heikes$700K
Opposing Heikes-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $272K of the race's $54M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

37%$6.8MSmall donors$698K6%
51%$9.5MLarge donors$4.8M41%
3%$602KPACs$2.6M22%
<1%$1.5KParty$62K<1%
9%$1.7MOther$3.5M30%

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Dan S. Sullivan $3.2M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 32 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

9 filed

None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.

1 to 5 of 9 candidates

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

R+13 in 2020

  • Dan Sullivan Won: 53.9%
  • Al Gross: 41.2%

354,587 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 4.9%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through July 29, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.