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Alaska 2020 presidential election

Democratic primary: April 10, 2020 Democratic winner:Joe Biden

Republican caucus:Canceled

Electoral College: Three votes 2020 winner:Donald Trump (R) 2016 winner:Donald Trump (R) 2012 winner:Mitt Romney (R)

Presidential election by state, 2020

PresidentDonald Trump (R) won the presidential election in Alaska on November 3, 2020. Former Vice PresidentJoe Biden (D) won thepresidential election with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 electoral votes.

Biden won the Democratic Party primary on April 10, 2020. In-person voting was canceled in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and all votes were cast by mail.

The Republican Party announced on September 21, 2019, that it would not hold a presidential preference poll because the incumbent, Trump, was a Republican.^[1]

In the 15 presidential elections since Alaska became a state (1959), the Democratic candidate won the state once in 1964. The Republican candidate won the state in the other 14 elections.^[2]

This page includes the following sections:

• Candidates and election results
• Government response to coronavirus pandemic in Alaska
• Democratic primary
• Republican primary
• Candidate filing requirements
• Historical election trends
• Presidential election by state

Candidates and election results

General election

Presidential election in Alaska, 2020

		Candidate/Running mate	%	Popular votes	Electoral votes
✔		Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)	52.8	189,951	3
		Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)	42.8	153,778	0
		Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)	2.5	8,897	0
		Jesse Ventura/Cynthia McKinney (Green Party of Alaska)	0.7	2,673	0
		Don Blankenship/William Mohr (Constitution Party)	0.3	1,127	0
		Brock Pierce/Karla Ballard (Independent)	0.2	825	0
		Roque De La Fuente/Darcy Richardson (Alliance Party)	0.1	318	0
		Other write-in votes	0.5	1,961	0

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Incumbents arebolded and underlined The results have been certified.

Total votes: 359,530

Primary election

Alaska Democratic presidential primary on April 10, 2020

	Candidate	%	Votes	Pledged delegates
	Joe Biden	55.3	10,834	8
	Bernie Sanders	44.7	8,755	7
	Michael Bloomberg	0.0	0	0
	Pete Buttigieg	0.0	0	0
	Tulsi Gabbard	0.0	0	0
	Amy Klobuchar	0.0	0	0
	Thomas Steyer	0.0	0	0
	Elizabeth Warren	0.0	0	0

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Source

Total votes: 19,589 • Total pledged delegates: 15

Government response to coronavirus pandemic in Alaska

Summary of changes to election dates and procedures

Alaska modified its absentee/mail-in voting procedures for the November 3, 2020, general election as follows:

• Absentee/mail-in voting: The witness requirement was suspended.

For a full timeline about election modifications made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak,click here.

Frequently asked questions

See also:Ballotpedia's 2020 Election Help Desk: Presidential election

The2020 election took place against a backdrop of uncertainty. Our readers had questions about what to expect in elections at all levels of government, from the casting of ballots to the certification of final results.Ballotpedia's 2020 Election Help Desk was designed to answer those questions.Ballotpedia is in the process of compiling and answering frequently asked questions related to the 2020 elections. Questions related to this election will be available soon.

Additional resources

Democratic primary

See also:Democratic presidential nomination, 2020

Former Vice PresidentJoe Biden (D) was formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the2020 Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020.^[4] The convention was originally scheduled to take place July 13-16, 2020.^[5] Organizers postponed the event in response to thecoronavirus pandemic.

Prior to the national convention, individual state caucuses and primaries were held to allocate convention delegates. These delegates vote at the convention to select the nominee. In 2020, a Democratic presidential candidate needed support from 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination.

With the plurality of pledged delegates, Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee on April 8, 2020, after Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign.^[6] Biden crossed the delegate threshold necessary to win the nomination on June 5, 2020.^[7]

Biden announced U.S. Sen.Kamala Harris (D) as his running mate on August 11, 2020. Harris is the first Black woman to appear on a major party's ticket in the United States.^[8]

Republican primary

See also:Republican presidential nomination, 2020

TheRepublican Party selected PresidentDonald Trump as its presidential nominee at the 2020 Republican National Convention, which was held from August 24-27, 2020.^[9]

Prior to the national convention, individual state caucuses and primaries were held to allocate convention delegates. These delegates vote at the convention to select the nominee. Trump crossed the delegate threshold necessary to win the nomination—1,276 delegates—onMarch 17, 2020.

George H.W. Bush (R) was the last incumbent to face a serious primary challenge, defeating political commentator Pat Buchanan in 1992. He was also the last president to lose his re-election campaign.Franklin Pierce (D) was the first and only elected president to lose his party's nomination in 1856.^[10]

Sixteen U.S. presidents—approximately one-third—have won two consecutive elections.

For an overview of the 2016 presidential election in Alaska, click here.

Candidate filing requirements

See also:Ballot access requirements for presidential candidates in Alaska

The tables below detail filing requirements for presidential candidates in Alaska in the 2020 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Alaska, clickhere.

Presidential primary candidates

State law does not provide for a presidential primary election.

Independent presidential candidates

Presidential statewide margins of victory of 5 percentage points or fewer, 1948-2016

See also:Presidential statewide margins of victory of 5 percentage points or fewer, 1948-2016

The following map shows the number of times, in presidential elections held between 1948 and 2016, that the margin of victory was 5 percentage points or fewer in each state.

• Wisconsin was the state with the most frequently narrow margins during this time period, appearing on the list in 10 presidential elections.
• Five states appeared eight times: Florida, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
• The state with the narrowest margin of victory was Florida in 2000 at 537 votes or one-hundredth of a percentage point.

Historical election trends

See also:Presidential voting history by state

Alaska presidential election results (1900-2024)

• 1Democratic win
• 16Republican wins

Presidential election voting record in Alaska, 1960-2016

Between 1960 and 2016:

• Alaska participated in15 presidential elections.
• Alaska voted for the winning presidential candidate60 percent of the time.
• Alaska voted Democratic6.67 percent of the time and Republican93.33 percent of the time.

Presidential election voting record in Alaska, 2000-2016

• Accuracy: 60 percent^[11]
• 2000 state winner:George W. Bush (R)*
• 2004 state winner:George W. Bush (R)*
• 2008 state winner:John McCain (R)
• 2012 state winner:Mitt Romney (R)
• 2016 state winner:Donald Trump (R)*

*An asterisk indicates that that candidate also won the national electoral vote in that election.

Historical election results

2016

General election

U.S. presidential election, Alaska, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine	36.6%	116,454	0
	Republican	Donald Trump/Mike Pence	51.3%	163,387	3
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson/Bill Weld	5.9%	18,725	0
	Green	Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka	1.8%	5,735	0
	Constitution	Darrell Lane Castle/Scott Bradley	1.2%	3,866	0
	Non-affiliated	Rocky De La Fuente/Michael Steinberg	0.4%	1,240	0
	-	Write-in votes	2.9%	9,201	0
Total Votes				318,608	3
Election results via:Alaska Division of Elections

Primary election

Alaska Democratic Caucus, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Bernie Sanders	81.1%	437	13
Hillary Clinton	18.9%	102	3
Roque De La Feunte	0%	0	0
Other	0%	0	0
Totals		539	16
Source:CNN andAlaska Democratic Party

Vote totals reflect the number of state convention delegates won.

Alaska Republican Caucus, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Ted Cruz	36.4%	7,973	12
Donald Trump	33.5%	7,346	11
Marco Rubio	15.1%	3,318	5
Ben Carson	10.9%	2,401	0
John Kasich	4.1%	892	0
Other	0%	0	0
Totals		21,930	28
Source:CNN andThe New York Times

2012

U.S. presidential election, Alaska, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Barack Obama/Joe BidenIncumbent	40.8%	122,640	0
	Republican	Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan	54.8%	164,676	3
	Libertarian	Gary Johnson/Jim Gray	2.5%	7,392	0
	Green	Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala	1%	2,917	0
	Write-in	Write-in candidates	1%	2,870	0
Total Votes				300,495	3
Election results via:Alaska Secretary of State

2008

U.S. presidential election, Alaska, 2008
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Barack Obama/Joe Biden	37.9%	123,594	0
	Republican	John McCain/Sarah Palin	59.4%	193,841	3
	Independent	Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez	1.2%	3,783	0
	Libertarian	Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root	0.5%	1,589	0
	American Independent	Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle	0.5%	1,660	0
	Write-in	Write-in candidates	0.5%	1,730	0
Total Votes				326,197	3
Election results via:Alaska Secretary of State

State profile

See also:Alaska andAlaska elections, 2019

Partisan data

The information in this section was current as of April 2019.

Presidential voting pattern

• Alaskavoted Republican in all seven presidential elections between 2000 and 2024.

Congressional delegation

• Following the2018 elections, bothU.S. senators from Alaska were Republicans.
• Alaska's U.S. representative was Republican.

State executives

• Republicans held three of Alaska's 11state executive offices. Elections for the other offices are nonpartisan.
• Alaska's governor was RepublicanMike Dunleavy.

State legislature

• Republicans controlled theAlaska State Senate with a 13-7 majority.
• Control of theAlaska House was split. After the 2018 elections, Republicans held 23 seats in the chamber, with 16 Democrats and one independent. On February 11, 2019,Bryce Edgmon changed his party affiliation from Democratic to unenrolled. Three days later, Edgmon, the chamber's remaining 15 Democrats, four Republicans, one independent officeholder voted to elect Edgmon speaker. The parties thensplit control of key leadership positions in a power-sharing agreement.

Presidential election by state

See also:Presidential election by state, 2020

Click on a state below to navigate to information about the presidential election in that jurisdiction.

See also

• Presidential candidates, 2020
• Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
• Republican presidential nomination, 2020
• Presidential election by state, 2020

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