The midterm election held on Nov. 2, 2010 had Alaskans voting for 1 senate seat as well as 1 house seat and governor. The senate race was between Joe Miller (R), Scott McAdams (D), and incumbent senator Lisa Murkowski (R) who ran as a write-in. Currently, with 77% of the vote in, the numbers show Murkowski and other write-ins (CNN lumps them together), with 41% of the vote.http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/state/#AK Miller is second with 34% of the vote and McAdams is third with 24%. Miller, a "tea-party" favorite, is not conceding as the process of scrutinizing the write in votes begine.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-alaska-senate-murkowski-20101104,0,4806119.story?track=rss

Murkowski entered herself in the race as a write-in after Joe Miller defeated her in the Republican primary in August.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-alaska-senate-murkowski-20101104,0,4806119.story?track=rss If Murkowski succeeds it will be the first time a write-in candidate will have succeeded in winning a Senate race since 1954, and the first by a woman.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-alaska-senate-murkowski-20101104,0,4806119.story?track=rss The Alaskan division of elections does not plan to start looking over the write-in votes until all of the more than 40,000 absentee ballots have been returned.http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-alaska-senate-murkowski-20101104,0,4806119.story?track=rss

The race between Stevens and Begich was extremely close, with election returns on the morning of November 5, 2008, showing Stevens leading Begich by just one percent. With nearly all of the precincts reporting, Stevens led Begich by just over 3,300 votes.CNN: Alaska Election Results Results of the election were not expected to be certified for 10 days, and at least 40,000 absentee ballots still had to be counted.Boston Herald: Sen. Ted Stevens Holding Thin Margin in Alaska

After a recount which lasted two weeks, it appears that Democratic challenger and Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich has defeated incumbent Republican Ted Stevens in the 2008 Alaskan Senate race. Begich currently leads Stevens by 3,724 votes, with a margin of 47.8 to 46.6. This is a reversal of the initial vote count, which had Stevens ahead, 48% to 47%MLive: Stevens loses race to Begich (November 18, 2008)