{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ak",
  "name": "Alaska",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ak",
  "slug": "ak",
  "state": "ak",
  "state_name": "Alaska",
  "state_id": "us-ak"
 },
 "question": "How did Alaska vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Lisa Murkowski (party not recorded) won by 0.8 points",
  "value": 0.8,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Lisa Murkowski (party not recorded) 43.4%, Kelly C. Tshibaka (party not recorded) 42.6%, Patricia R. Chesbro (party not recorded) 10.7%",
   "263,027 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Alaska since 1978",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 1 and Republicans in 14.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1978,
       -51.498,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -7.752,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       -42.684,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       -9.926,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       -34.036,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       -14.642,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -66.367,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -54.77,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -67.657,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -3.032,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       1.244,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -12.052,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -2.129,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -32.735,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -12.703,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       0,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Alaska counts ranked choices (since 2022); these are first-choice votes, so a margin can differ from the final round's.",
  "A candidate the source data records with no party is shown as 'party not recorded' rather than guessed.",
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 122741,
    "votes": {
     "Ted Stevens": 92783,
     "Donald Hobbs": 29574
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 156762,
    "votes": {
     "Frank H. Murkowski": 84159,
     "Clark S. Gruening": 72007
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 206438,
    "votes": {
     "Ted Stevens": 146919,
     "John E. Havelock": 58804
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 180801,
    "votes": {
     "Frank H. Murkowski": 97674,
     "Glenn Olds": 79727,
     "Chuck House": 3161
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 189957,
    "votes": {
     "Ted Stevens": 125806,
     "Michael Beasley": 61152
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 239714,
    "votes": {
     "Frank H. Murkowski": 127163,
     "Tony Smith": 92065,
     "Mary Jordan": 20019
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 231916,
    "votes": {
     "Ted Stevens": 177893,
     "Jed Whittaker": 29037,
     "Theresa Nangle Obermeyer": 23977
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 221807,
    "votes": {
     "Frank H. Murkowski": 165227,
     "Joseph A. \"joe\" Sonneman": 43743,
     "Jeffrey Gottlieb": 7126,
     "Scott A. Kohlhaas": 5046
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 229548,
    "votes": {
     "Ted Stevens": 179438,
     "Frank Vondersaar": 24133,
     "Jim Sykes": 16608,
     "Jim Dore": 6724,
     "Leonard Karpinski": 2354
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 308315,
    "votes": {
     "Lisa Murkowski": 149773,
     "Tony Knowles": 140424,
     "Marc J. Millican": 8885,
     "Jerry Sanders": 3785,
     "Jim Skyes": 3053,
     "Scott A. Kohlhaas": 1240,
     "Ted \"big\" Gianoutsos": 732
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 317723,
    "votes": {
     "Mark Begich": 151767,
     "Ted Stevens": 147814,
     "Bob Bird": 13197,
     "Fredrick D. \"david\" Haase": 2483,
     "Ted Gianoutsos": 1385
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 255503,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Miller": 90839,
     "Scott T. Mcadams": 60045,
     "Fredrick \"david\" Haase": 1459,
     "Tim Carter": 927,
     "Ted Gianoutsos": 458
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 282400,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Sullivan": 135445,
     "Mark Begich": 129431,
     "Mark S. Fish": 10512,
     "Ted Gianoutsos": 5636
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 311441,
    "votes": {
     "Lisa Murkowski": 138149,
     "Joe Miller": 90825,
     "Margaret Stock": 41194,
     "Ray Metcalfe": 36200,
     "Breck A. Craig": 2609,
     "Ted Gianoutsos": 1758
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 354587,
    "votes": {
     "Dan Sullivan": 191112,
     "Al Gross": 146068,
     "John Wayne Howe": 16806
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 263027,
    "votes": {
     "Lisa Murkowski": 114118,
     "Kelly C. Tshibaka": 112101,
     "Patricia R. Chesbro": 28233,
     "Buzz A. Kelley": 8575
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022",
    "Lisa Murkowski (?) 43.4%",
    "Kelly C. Tshibaka (?) 42.6%",
    "0.8 pts",
    "263,027"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Dan Sullivan (R) 53.9%",
    "Al Gross (D) 41.2%",
    "12.7 pts",
    "354,587"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Lisa Murkowski (R) 44.4%",
    "Joe Miller (L) 29.2%",
    "15.2 pts",
    "311,441"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Dan Sullivan (R) 48.0%",
    "Mark Begich (D) 45.8%",
    "2.1 pts",
    "282,400"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Joe Miller (R) 35.6%",
    "Scott T. Mcadams (D) 23.5%",
    "12.1 pts",
    "255,503"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Mark Begich (D) 47.8%",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 46.5%",
    "1.2 pts",
    "317,723"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Lisa Murkowski (R) 48.6%",
    "Tony Knowles (D) 45.5%",
    "3.0 pts",
    "308,315"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 78.2%",
    "Frank Vondersaar (D) 10.5%",
    "67.7 pts",
    "229,548"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Frank H. Murkowski (R) 74.5%",
    "Joseph A. \"joe\" Sonneman (D) 19.7%",
    "54.8 pts",
    "221,807"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 76.7%",
    "Jed Whittaker (I) 12.5%",
    "64.2 pts",
    "231,916"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Frank H. Murkowski (R) 53.0%",
    "Tony Smith (D) 38.4%",
    "14.6 pts",
    "239,714"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 66.2%",
    "Michael Beasley (D) 32.2%",
    "34.0 pts",
    "189,957"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Frank H. Murkowski (R) 54.0%",
    "Glenn Olds (D) 44.1%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "180,801"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 71.2%",
    "John E. Havelock (D) 28.5%",
    "42.7 pts",
    "206,438"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Frank H. Murkowski (R) 53.7%",
    "Clark S. Gruening (D) 45.9%",
    "7.8 pts",
    "156,762"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Ted Stevens (R) 75.6%",
    "Donald Hobbs (D) 24.1%",
    "51.5 pts",
    "122,741"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-ak/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}