 On December 30, 2010, Alaska state officials certified Lisa Murkowski as the winner of the Senatorial election, making her the first U.S. Senate candidate to win election via write-in since Strom Thurmond in 1954.On December 31 Miller announced at a news conference in Anchorage that he was conceding.Murkowski thus became the first person in 40 years to win election to the Senate with under 40% of the vote.