Democrat Mary Peltola inched further ahead of Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in the Senate race on Monday after another small batch of preliminary election results was released by the Alaska Division of Elections.

Tens of thousands of early and absentee ballots still have yet to be counted following the Nov. 3 election, and a winner may not be known until Nov. 18, with the election results expected to be certified on Nov. 25.

The new tally on Monday brings the total ballot count to more than 220,000, about 5,000 more than the previous update Nov. 4.

A larger batch of results is set to be released Tuesday.

With the new numbers, Peltola, a former U.S. representative, has grown her lead over Sullivan, a two-term Republican incumbent, to 2,517 first-choice votes, reflecting about 1.1% of the vote. Peltola previously held a lead of just 637 votes, or 0.3%.

In Monday’s updated count, she received 106,321 first-choice votes, or 48.6% of the vote.

Sullivan received 103,804 votes, or 47.5% of the vote. —Anchorage Daily News