Kari Lake has lost the Arizona Senate race, projections show. Democrat Ruben Gallego will beat Ms Lake and replace outgoing independent senator Kyrsten Sinema, according to a forecast by Decision Desk HQ. Mr Gallego, a former marine and congressman, led his Republican rival by 45,000 votes as of Sunday morning with 89 per cent of the vote tallied.

PHOENIX — Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Ruben Gallego 's race continues Thursday morning with no official winner declared. Lake and Gallego are running to fill the seat left vacant by Kyrsten Sinema. Here are the live results:

Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority. Gallego’s victory continues a string of Democratic successes for the Senate in a state that was reliably Republican for those seats until Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.