Joe Miller is Alaska’s GOP Senate nominee:

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded late Tuesday in her Republican primary race to Joe Miller, a lawyer from Fairbanks backed by Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin and other conservatives. Mr. Miller shocked the political establishment here and in Washington last week when he emerged with a narrow lead, 1,668 votes, after the primary vote, on Aug. 24. Mr. Miller, who had trailed badly in local polls in the weeks before the election, benefited from a last-minute flood of advertisements, mailings and automated calls casting Ms. Murkowski as a Democrat in disguise. An abortion-related ballot measure also brought conservatives to the polls.

Ms. Murkowski’s concession followed the counting of about 16,000 additional ballots on Tuesday, which left Mr. Miller with a lead of about 1,469 votes out of about 103,000 cast. Several thousand more votes were to be counted on Friday but the trend suggested Ms. Murkowski would not gain enough ground to win.

At one point on Tuesday, Mr. Miller’s lead narrowed to 1,210 votes, with several thousand votes still outstanding from Southeast Alaska, a stronghold for Ms. Murkowski.

“It should break pretty heavily our way — hopefully, really heavy,” John Bitney, Ms. Murkowski’s campaign manager, said at one point Tuesday.

But that did not happen.