The vote count drags on for the fifth day in Arizona as Americans await the results of hundreds of thousands of early ballots dropped off on Election Day.

Election officials from Maricopa County, the most populous county in the state, reported the results of 74,951 votes Friday night that broke toward Democrats. Soon after the results came in, the Associated Press called the U.S. Senate Race for Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and the Secretary of State race for Democrat Adrian Fontes.

The statewide results in four of the state’s major races were as follows as of 4:13 p.m. Eastern Saturday, with an estimated 83 percent of the total vote reported, according to the New York Times:

U.S. Senate Race

  • Kelly: 1,128,917 – 51.8 percent
  • Republican Blake Masters: 1,005,001 – 46.1 percent
  • Libertarian Marc Victor: 46,189 – 2.1 percent

Governor’s Race:

  • Democrat Katie Hobbs: 1,100,005 – 50.7 percent
  • Republican Kari Lake: 1,068,908 – 49.3 percent

Attorney General Race:

  • Democrat Kris Mayes: 1,074,673 – 50.45 percent
  • Republican Abe Hamadeh: 1,055,522 – 49.55

Secretary of State Race:

  • Fontes: 1,129,144 – 52.8 percent
  • Republican Mark Finchem: 1,011,019 – 47.2 percent

Heading into Friday evening, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates stated that the majority of the drop would include early ballots dropped off on Election Day. He added that it would also include the remainder of early ballots received before Election Day, as well as “a good amount” of the approximately 17,000 ballots from in-person voters, whose ballots were placed into secure boxes after tabulators did not read them at polling centers.

In a press release, Maricopa County officials stated that an estimated 265,000-275,000 outstanding ballots remained after Friday night’s results and reported the breakdown of these remaining ballots to be:

  • Estimated Election Day ballots to be reported: 5,000
  • Estimated early ballots left to process and tabulate: 254,000
  • Estimated number of early ballots left to cure: 13,000
  • Estimated provisional ballots left to research: 1,114 (7,885 total)

ABC 15 Data Analyst Stephen Archer offered insight as to why Friday’s ballot drop favored Democrats when the majority of the ballots were the Election Day early votes thought to break for Republican’s.

He noted that the drop included ballots from all over the county, “but there was a concentration of ballots from South Phoenix,” which explained the batch of votes favoring Democrats. The data analyst asserted Friday night that “the GOP calvary is coming” as a batch of 114,000 Election Day drop-off ballots that have been “transmitted to the elections department will break in favor of” Republican Kari Lake. These were not included in Friday night’s results, and it is not clear when they will be reported.

He later added that “based on the affidavit transmission party data we still have some very, very friendly batches coming for R slate in Maricopa.”