<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is projected to have lost her bid for a political comeback after this month's midterm elections.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Republican suffered her second defeat in three months to Mary Peltola, a Democrat, in the race for a US House of Representatives seat in Alaska.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senator Lisa Murkowski is meanwhile projected to have beaten a fellow Republican challenger in her election.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The results won't affect which parties will run Congress after the midterms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Republicans will still take over the House, while Democrats retain the Senate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Alaska races took two weeks to be called because the state uses a new ranked-choice voting system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">CBS News, the BBC's US partner, projected the result for Alaska's at-large House seat on Wednesday night with 88% of votes counted, showing Ms Peltola on 55% and Ms Palin on 45%.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ms Peltola won the seat by three percentage points in a special election this August, her first victory over Ms Palin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Democrat's win is notable in a conservative state that former President Donald Trump, a Republican, took by 10 points in 2020. Mr Trump endorsed Ms Palin in both her House races.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senator Murkowski - an incumbent moderate Republican who voted to impeach Mr Trump for incitement of insurrection after last year's US Capitol riot - has also cruised to re-election.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With almost all votes counted, she has beaten Trump-endorsed intra-party challenger Kelly Tshibaka by more than seven points, CBS projects. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>