Four Senate and governor races in Alaska, Kansas and Mississippi remained uncalled by AP on Friday

The Associated Press had not called four Senate and governor races as of Friday afternoon, Nov. 6: both Alaska contests, Kansas governor and Mississippi Senate, according to AP figures relayed by news outlets.¹²³ We could not open the three states’ election results pages Friday, so the counts below are as those outlets reported them.

Mississippi

Democrat Scott Colom had 467,066 votes, 49.1%, and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had 465,056, 48.8%, a 2,010-vote difference, in an AP update Friday morning, the Mississippi Free Press reported.³ Yahoo News, citing AP, gave a 1,813-vote difference at 6 a.m. ET Friday with 96% counted.¹ Independent Ty Pinkins had 19,934 votes, 2.1%, in ABC News’ Wednesday night count.⁴

Secretary of State Michael Watson’s office said Thursday that about 3,300 mailed absentee ballots were outstanding and 6,936 affidavit ballots had been processed, the Free Press reported.³

The Secretary of State’s calendar sets Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. for mailed absentee ballots to reach circuit clerks and for affidavit voters who lacked photo ID to present it. County returns are due Nov. 13; the secretary’s declaration is listed for Dec. 3.⁵ Election commissioners decide whether each affidavit ballot counts.⁶ Watson’s office told ABC News that candidates cannot request a recount in Mississippi and that none is triggered automatically.⁴

Hyde-Smith’s lawyers asked all 82 counties to keep affidavit ballots separate and preserved, writing that she is “entitled to their preservation in an unaltered and identifiable state,” WLBT reported. Colom’s campaign wrote to each county Thursday that doing so would “violate Mississippi voters’ rights and Mississippi election law.”⁷

Colom said, “We’re prepared to litigate, though.” Hyde-Smith wrote on X that officials “must have the time to complete that work,” Yahoo News reported.¹

Kansas

Democrat Cindy Holscher had 50.3% and Republican Ty Masterson had 49.7% with 99% counted, Yahoo News reported from AP figures Friday morning.¹ KCTV5 reported Friday afternoon that the gap was just over 7,000 votes and that the AP had not called the race.²

KAKE reported that mailed ballots could be counted if they carried an Election Day postmark and arrived by Friday. It said county reviews are due Nov. 16, recount requests by 5 p.m. Nov. 17, and any recount by Nov. 22.⁸

Holscher said, “The people of Kansas made their voices heard.” Masterson said, “Every Kansan deserves to know the result is right.”²

Alaska

Senate: The Division of Elections’ latest posted count, from Wednesday afternoon, showed Republican Gerald Heikes at 2.26%; Democrat Mary Peltola at 102,962 votes, 48.02%; Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan at 102,325, 47.72%; and Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg at about 3,600 votes, KTUU reported.⁹

Governor: At 3 p.m. Wednesday, Republican Dave Bronson had 14.2%, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins 49.2%, Republican Treg Taylor 7.5% and Republican Bernadette Wilson 29.2%, Alaska’s News Source reported.¹⁰ AP figures Friday morning showed 74% counted.¹

Ranked tabulation applies to any race where no candidate tops 50%.¹⁰ Alaska Public Media reported the division planned count updates Nov. 10, Nov. 13 and Nov. 18, with ranked tabulation Nov. 18 and certification by Nov. 25. Overseas ballots may arrive up to 15 days after the election.¹¹

What the records do not show

• We could not open the Alaska, Kansas or Mississippi results pages, or the Kansas Secretary of State’s election calendar, audit guidance or recount statute, on Friday; the Kansas dates above are as KAKE reported them.
• No record we opened gives Mississippi’s statewide affidavit total or Kansas provisional counts.
• The Free Press did not state a time zone for the AP update it cited.