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Alaska presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Alaska by 14.73 points (46,933 votes), winning 3 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
3
Votes counted
318,608
AK result
R+14.7
Compared with the nation
16.7 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012
0.7 pts to R

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Donald J. TrumpRepublican163,38751.30%3
Hillary ClintonDemocratic116,45436.60%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian18,7255.90%—
Total votes318,608

Sources: ak.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Alaska Division of Elections, 2016 General Election November 8, 2016 Official Results (11/30/16, 9 pages); page 1 left column US PRESIDENT statewide
Open the original document · page 1

Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 6 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
Trump, Donald J. REPREP163,38752.81%
Clinton, Hillary DEMDEM116,45437.64%
Johnson, Gary LIBLIB18,7256.05%
Stein, Jill GREGRE5,7351.85%
Castle, Darrell L. CONCON3,8661.25%
De La Fuente, Roque NANA1,2400.40%
Write-in / scattering9,201
Total as printed318,608
Notes on how this document was read
  • Page 1 prints two columns of contests; only the left column (x < 310 pt) is read. 'Write-in Votes' is write_in.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

Questions and answers

Who won Alaska in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Alaska by 14.73 percentage points (46,933 votes).

How many electoral votes did Alaska have in 2016?

Alaska cast 3 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Alaska in 2016?

318,608 votes were counted for president.

How did Alaska change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 0.7 points toward the Republican ticket, from Republican by 14.0 points to Republican by 14.7 points.

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data