Republican Dan Sullivan of Alaska has defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Begich in one of the country’s last outstanding Senate races. According to the New York Times, Sullivan has a nearly 8,000-vote lead, winning 49 percent of the vote to Begich’s 46 percent.

The race between Begich and Sullivan had been too close to call in Alaska, where ballot results from the far-flung parts of the state can often take days and weeks to be counted.