Lisa Murkowski won the election for her Senate seat, making her the second person ever to win as a write in candidate. Over 100,000 Alaskans voted for her, to give her a 10,000 vote lead over Joe Miller. Miller claimed that many of her votes were invalid, because of misspellings or other errors. He claimed that a write-in candidate's name must be spelled exactly right to count. The Lt. Governor Craig Campbell disagreed, saying as long as the voter's intent was known, the vote counts. Even if all of the disputed voted were thrown out, Murkowski would still have a 2,000 vote lead over Miller.
Murkowski herself gave partial credit of her win to the fact that over half of the Alaskan electorate is not aligned with any party, giving them more freedom to vote for the candidate, instead of the party.
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