Democrat Mark Begich claimed victory Tuesday over Republican Sen. Ted Stevens , whose decades of dominance in Alaska politics were unraveled by a corruption conviction just a week before Election Day.
Begich’s success will give the surging Democrats effective control of at least 58 Senate seats in the upcoming 111th Congress.
Tuesday’s tally of thousands of remaining absentee ballots showed Begich extending his once-narrow lead to 3,724 votes, a margin of more than 1 percentage point. That prompted the Associated Press to declare Begich the victor late Tuesday afternoon Alaska time, a verdict echoed shortly thereafter by the Anchorage Daily News, the state’s biggest newspaper.
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