Voters at Anchorage City Hall wait in line to cast their ballots on Nov. 4, 2024, the day before Election Day. City Hall, in downtown Anchorage, was one of the designated early voting sites in the state’s largest city. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Alaska elections officials added about 1,500 more votes to the state’s election total on Wednesday as workers continued to count ballots from Election Day.
That work remained unfinished by the end of the day, with some precincts still unreported. In addition, tens of thousands of votes cast before Election Day remain uncounted.
The new votes, which mostly came from rural Alaska, did not significantly change any results from a preliminary total reported at 3 a.m. Wednesday morning.
With 390 of 403 precincts now reporting results, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump still leads by a wide margin, and Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich saw his lead over Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola shrink only slightly.
As of the end of the day Wednesday, Begich had 49.5% of the vote and Peltola 45.4%. Alaskan Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe is in third with 3.9%, and imprisoned out-of-state Democratic candidate Eric Hafner is fourth with less than 1%.