US midterms 2026: What key races remain undecided?

A Democratic romp successful the midterms has rocked the US governmental landscape, but respective intimately contested races stay excessively adjacent to call.

• Alaska Senate: Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is seeking to clasp his spot against Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, who has a 626-vote lead. If neither campaigner gets much than 50 percent of the vote, past it volition spell to ranked-choice voting nether Alaska law.
• Alaska governor: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is facing disconnected against Republican Bernadette Wilson. Kreiss-Tomkins’s stock of the ballot is 49.2 percent with an estimated 74 percent of ballots counted.
• Kansas governor: Democrat Cindy Holscher has a pb of little than a percent constituent implicit Republican Ty Masterson. Holscher’s pb is 5,557, with an estimated 98 percent of the votes counted.
• Mississippi Senate: Democratic campaigner 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 successful a choky contention 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 formed their ballots astatine a polling presumption wrong a buying promenade successful Anchorage, Alaska, connected November 2, 2026 [Charly Triballeau/AFP]