Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
What each candidate says on this issue, and what their own official record shows.
Campaign positions
No position was found. The Division of Elections candidate list gives only his name, party registration, address and telephone number; he filed no statement for the official election pamphlet, the list names no website or email for him, and the Federal Election Commission shows no campaign committee for him this cycle. He did not answer the 2026 voter guides of four Alaska newsrooms or iVoterGuide.
Her campaign says she will push permitting reform, back refining more Alaska oil in the state and projects like the Alaska LNG pipeline, modernize energy grids including the Railbelt, and restore the federal tax credits for solar, wind and hydropower that the 2025 reconciliation law cut.
His campaign says he is running on a record that includes unleashing Alaska's energy potential, and credits him with leading the fight against what it calls the Biden administration's war on energy. His pamphlet statement names energy production from the Petroleum Reserve, the Arctic refuge and Cook Inlet, and the Alaska LNG project.
In his questionnaire answers he says he would support the Ambler road if it addresses the concerns of the communities that have used the land for generations. No broader energy position was found in his campaign site as read on September 23, 2026 (home page, two press releases and six posts, including his answers to two voter-guide questionnaires) and his election pamphlet statement.
Evidence timeline
official action
CPC planned up to $4.4 billion in investment; terms and budget approval procedures remained pending.
Sullivan said Taiwan had committed substantial money to Alaska LNG. Taiwan’s ministry said October 14, 2026 that CPC planned to invest up to $4.4 billion and buy six million tonnes of LNG annually once production begins. Investment terms and budget approval procedures remained to be completed. Limit: This checks the announced plan, not binding financing, spending or Sullivan’s role.
official action
Sullivan supported advancing data-center cost standards; the procedural motion failed, and his vote does not establish his claimed leadership.
Sullivan said he led legislation to make data centers pay their own power costs. He voted to advance H.R.9340 on September 30, 2026; the motion failed 57–43. Limit: His leadership is unverified; the bill would require considering standards, not adopting them.
official action
Korea’s legislature passed the $350 billion framework; an Alaska LNG allocation or payment was not verified.
Sullivan said Korea passed a $350 billion U.S. investment provision and appropriated money, while the Alaska LNG amount remained under negotiation. Korea.net reported March 13, 2026 that Korea’s legislature passed the framework bill the day before: $150 billion for shipbuilding and $200 billion for other strategic investment. Limit: This checks framework passage, not his appropriation claim, an Alaska LNG allocation, payment or Sullivan’s role.
official action
He sponsored a law overturning a Petroleum Reserve leasing plan and voted for one requiring lease sales; the record does not show production that followed.
His campaign says he is running on a record that includes unleashing Alaska's energy potential. He sponsored S.J. Res. 80, which overturned the Bureau of Land Management's record of decision for the National Petroleum Reserve's leasing plan; it became Public Law 119-47 on December 5, 2025. He voted Yea on the 2025 reconciliation act (roll call 372), whose section 50104 requires at least four more area-wide oil and gas lease sales on the Arctic refuge's Coastal Plain within ten years, and whose section 50105 restores leasing in the Petroleum Reserve under the 2020 plan and requires at least five lease sales there within ten years. Limit: A law that requires lease sales or restores a leasing plan opens land to production; it does not produce oil, and nothing in these records measures production that followed. The records show the direction he claims, not the outcome “unleashing” implies.
campaign position
She cosponsored a drilling bill, voted Present over a provision and filed her own, then split on other oil/gas bills. Willow was an agency decision; both senators praised her work.
Her campaign says she has consistently stood up to anyone, including President Biden, to promote oil and gas development and secure approval of the Willow oil project. She was an original cosponsor of H.R. 6285, the Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023, introduced November 8, 2023, and voted Present when the House passed it on May 1, 2024 (roll call 174). On the floor that day she said she still supported the bill's intent but that it would nullify the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, and she introduced her own version the same day, H.R. 8214, which would void any pause on oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain. On the other House bills of her term about oil and gas leasing, production or export, she voted Yea on H.R. 22, barring Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to buyers tied to China (January 12, 2023, roll call 31), on H.R. 7176, lifting restrictions on natural gas exports (February 15, 2024, roll call 52), and on H.R. 1121, barring a presidential moratorium on fracking (March 20, 2024, roll call 93); Nay on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act (March 30, 2023, roll call 182), and on H.R. 6009, withdrawing a Bureau of Land Management rule on oil and gas leasing (March 20, 2024, roll call 95); and did not vote on H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act (January 27, 2023). The Willow approval was an Interior Department decision, on which no member of Congress voted. On the Senate floor on March 8, 2023, Dan S. Sullivan thanked her for “a really strong job” on Willow, “particularly in the meeting last week with the President”. On March 14, 2023, Senator Lisa Murkowski named her in “a united delegation” that led the effort. Why there is no verdict: The record points both ways. On Willow, both Alaska senators said on the Senate floor that she helped lead the push, including at a meeting with the President. On oil and gas bills, she voted for three, against two, missed one, and voted Present on one she had cosponsored because of one provision. Votes on single bills cannot settle “consistently”, so no label is given. Limit: The votes listed are every House passage vote of her term on a bill whose text is about oil and gas leasing, production or export, found by searching the Clerk's roll-call titles for 2022 to 2024; votes on other land and energy rules are left out, such as the WEST Act on a Bureau of Land Management conservation rule, on which she voted No (roll call 165 of 2024). They are votes on particular bills rather than on the claim, which is about advocacy.
official action
AGDC credited her with urging Biden to back Alaska LNG and shared loan-guarantee advocacy.
Peltola said she pressed the Biden administration to support Alaska LNG. The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation’s September 21, 2023 report credited her with urging Biden to back Alaska LNG. It also named her, Murkowski and Sullivan as pressing the Energy Department on loan guarantees. Limit: This is the corporation’s account, not the underlying request or proof of financing or construction.
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Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Division's list of certified candidates for the November 3, 2026 general election, read September 23, 2026. It lists four candidates for U.S. Senator, alphabetically: Heikes, Gerald L. (Registered Republican); Peltola, Mary (Registered Democrat); Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican, incumbent); Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr. (Registered Republican). For Gerald L. Heikes it gives an address and telephone number only: no website, email or pamphlet statement.
official election record
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The FEC's candidate record for him, read September 23, 2026: no principal campaign committee and no financial report for the 2026 cycle.
fec filing
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
KTOO, Alaska Beacon, Alaska Public Media and Anchorage Daily News · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
The four newsrooms' joint guide for the August 18, 2026 primary. On the U.S. Senate tab, each of his answers reads “We made several attempts to contact the candidate, but the candidate did not respond,” except his hometown, which the guide took from the Division. Read September 24, 2026 through the data the page loads from app.electup.com. The Alaska Beacon's own copy returned 403 and was not tried further.
original reporting
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
iVoterGuide · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
A voter-guide site's profile of him for the 2026 Senate race. Every questionnaire item is marked “Did not answer” and every biography field “Candidate did not provide”. Read September 24, 2026.
original reporting
For: Gerald L. Heikes: campaign position
Alaskans for Mary · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Issue page. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: campaign position; Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Alaskans for Mary · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Issue page. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. Her filed website, confirmed by its line “Paid for by Alaskans for Mary”. The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: 29 pages and 64 posts. Links in two posts that run through an email-tracking service carrying a subscriber identifier were deliberately not followed.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: campaign position
Alaskans for Dan Sullivan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. The committee's filed website is WWW.DANSULLIVANFORALASKA.COM; the www host fails a secure connection, so the site was read at the bare domain, confirmed by its line "Paid for by Alaskans for Dan Sullivan". The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: nine pages and 33 posts, and no issues page.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position; Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Alaskans for Dan Sullivan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign biography page, dated May 5, 2026 in the site's own feed. Campaign-controlled source; claims are attributed, not independently verified. The committee's filed website is WWW.DANSULLIVANFORALASKA.COM; the www host fails a secure connection, so the site was read at the bare domain, confirmed by its line "Paid for by Alaskans for Dan Sullivan". The whole site was read through its public content feed on September 23, 2026: nine pages and 33 posts, and no issues page.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position
Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026
Candidate-written and candidate-paid statement published by the Division, which says the views are the candidate's and not endorsed by it. A PDF, saved and hashed in the research folder; the seafood sentence the desk quotes is checked against the Division's copy.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: campaign position
Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate · Published Jul 13, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
His answers to Alaska Public Media's questionnaire, posted July 13, 2026. Campaign-controlled source; positions are attributed, not independently verified. Confirmed as his by the footer “Paid for by Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate P.O. Box 1656, Petersburg, Alaska 99833”. The research agent's network could not reach the site (a failed secure connection, and a network security filter on the plain address), and the filter was not bypassed; the site was read in full on September 23, 2026 in the owner's own browser: home, press (two releases), links, and six posts found through its sitemap. The owner's browser saved the pages' text on September 23, 2026, and the desk's quotations are checked against that saved copy.
candidate statement
For: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: campaign position
Alaska Division of Elections · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Candidate-written and candidate-paid statement published by the Division: retired elementary school teacher, Petersburg since May 1980, work for the U.S. Forest Service and in logging and construction, and a pledge to stand for fair elections and equal access to the ballot. A PDF, saved and hashed in the research folder; not quoted directly.
candidate statement
For: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: campaign position
Alaska Public Media / KTUU / KTOO · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
Paraphrase of the October 15 debate’s saved native English captions, cues 1396–1419; the statement is not a verbatim quotation.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of State-Owned Enterprise Management · Published Oct 14, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
The complete Chinese ministry article describes CPC’s current plan: estimated investment up to US$4.4 billion and six million tonnes annually after production begins. Investment arrangements and budget approval procedures remained pending; this is not proof of binding financing or spending.
official office record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Alaska Public Media / Alaska Debate · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Paraphrase from the dated debate; timestamp links to the statement.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Senate · Published Sep 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Sullivan voted Yea; cloture failed 57–43.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Sep 16, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
Requires considering cost standards, not universal adoption.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Congress · Published Sep 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 28, 2026
The procedural motion failed; the bill has not become law.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Alaska Public Media / KTUU / KTOO · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
Paraphrase of the October 15 debate’s saved native English captions, cues 1444–1460; the statement is not a verbatim quotation.
candidate statement
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Republic of Korea Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism / Korea.net · Published Mar 13, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
The government account reports March 12 legislative passage of a $350 billion framework: $150 billion for shipbuilding and $200 billion for other strategic investment. It does not establish a signed law, a $350 billion appropriation, an Alaska LNG allocation or payment.
official office record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by Dan S. Sullivan, introduced September 18, 2025; became Public Law 119-47 on December 5, 2025.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Congressional Record, on the question “Shall the bill, as amended, pass?”: 50 yeas, 50 nays, with the Vice President voting in the affirmative. The sitting ran into July 1, 2025 and the Record prints it under the legislative day of June 30. Read with tools/senate-votes/collector.py.
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Enacted text, approved July 4, 2025. Used for section 40001 (Coast Guard), sections 50104 and 50105 (Arctic refuge Coastal Plain and Petroleum Reserve leasing), section 70101 (individual rates) and sections 70201 and 70202 (tips and overtime deductions).
official legislative record
For: Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by Pete Stauber, with Mary Peltola as an original cosponsor on November 8, 2023. Passed the House May 1, 2024; referred to committee in the Senate.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
May 1, 2024, on passage of the Alaska’s Right to Produce Act: 214 to 199, 2 present. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published May 1, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Her floor statement on the Alaska's Right to Produce Act, made the day of the vote: she said she was the only Democrat to support the bill at markup and still supported its intent, that it would nullify the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, that she had introduced a version without that effect that day, and that she would vote “present”.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Introduced by Mary Peltola on May 1, 2024 and referred to the Natural Resources Committee; no further action. It would void any order pausing oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain and ratify the leasing program's approvals.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
February 15, 2024, on passage of the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act: 224 to 200. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
As passed by the House: “To repeal restrictions on the export and import of natural gas.”
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
March 20, 2024, on passage of the Protecting American Energy Production Act: 229 to 188. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
As passed by the House: the President may not declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing unless an Act of Congress authorizes it.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
March 30, 2023, on passage of the Lower Energy Costs Act: 225 to 204. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
March 20, 2024, on passage of the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act: 216 to 200. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
As passed by the House: requires the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw its proposed rule “Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process”.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
January 27, 2023, on passage of the Strategic Production Response Act: 221 to 205. She is recorded as not voting. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
As passed by the House: a plan to increase oil and gas production under federal leases before further drawdowns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
January 12, 2023, on passage of the Protecting America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act: 331 to 97. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619: Yea.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
As passed by the House on January 12, 2023: bars sales from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to entities tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and sales unless the oil is not exported to China.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Mar 8, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Dan S. Sullivan's floor speech on Willow, pages S723 to S726. He thanks Congresswoman Peltola for a strong job on it, especially at a meeting with the President the week before.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Mar 14, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Senator Lisa Murkowski's floor speech the day after Willow's approval, pages S762 and S763. She names Senator Sullivan, Representative Peltola and herself as a united delegation that led the effort.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Feb 16, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Dan S. Sullivan's floor speech on Willow, pages S444 to S446. He says Congresswoman Peltola, in the House, will keep pressing for it.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
April 30, 2024, on passage of the WEST Act, which would void a Bureau of Land Management rule on conservation and landscape health: 212 to 202. She voted No. Her position read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member identifier P000619.
official legislative record
For: Mary Peltola: record does not settle this
Alaska Public Media / KTUU / KTOO · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
Paraphrase of the October 15 debate’s saved native English captions, cues 1512–1518; the statement is not a verbatim quotation.
candidate statement
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation · Published Sep 21, 2023 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026
Printed page 23, Congressional Support, credits Peltola with urging Biden to support Alaska LNG and names shared Energy Department loan-guarantee advocacy. This is the corporation’s account, not the underlying correspondence or financing proof.
official office record
For: Mary Peltola: Matches stated direction