Murkowski filed a summary Wednesday of her fund-raising efforts through June 30 with the Federal Election Commission. A detailed listing of donors is pending.

Former Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles told the FEC earlier this month he will seek Murkowski's seat in the 2004 election. He will not file reports until next quarter.

Alaska Teamster president Jerry Hood and Fairbanks businessman John Binkley have said they are considering a run against Murkowski in the Republican primary.

Murkowski said 935 of her 1,272 individual donors were Alaskans. She did not have figures on what proportion of the total funds raised came from Alaska, but acknowledged that much of the campaign's income has will come from Outside.

"I want to believe that, as an Alaskan, we're the ones that are determining the election and it's our money that's going into it," she said. "But when you have a several-million-dollar race like this senatorial race will be, and you've got a population base of just over 600,000 people, the numbers don't add up."

The entire campaign probably will cost $3 million, she said.

"It's probably going to be more money than any election has ever had before," Leslie Ridle, Knowles' interim campaign coordinator, said in Anchorage. "We plan to be competitive."

The Knowles and Murkowski campaigns have hired Washington, D.C., fund-raisers to solicit donations from political action committees. PACs have given $339,000 to the Murkowski campaign.