Talk:2020 United States presidential election in Alaska

New York Times has different percentages than the state Division of Elections
Hello. I see that this article uses the NYT results page as the source for its own results table. However, the results from the Alaska Division of Elections appear to differ slightly. Both sources have the same number of votes for each candidate, but the percentages are pretty different. The DoE has around 2000 extra votes in their "ballots counted" row, but these do not belong to any candidate. I assume these are overvotes, undervotes, and spoiled ballots, but the DoE website doesn't say. This raises the question: should this article use the vote total (and therefore candidate percentages) reported by the state government, or should it use the results as reported by the NYT? I tend to think it would be better to get the data directly from the Division of Elections, but given that they count 2000 or so unattributed votes, it might be more reasonable to use the NYT's numbers. For what it's worth, this question isn't purely academic, because the DoE's results have Trump with 52.55% and Biden with 42.56%, for a margin of 9.99%. The main article for the 2020 election lists states where the result was within 10%, so which source is used for results would determine whether Alaska is included on that list. Jacoby531 (talk) 19:30, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Results by borough?
Hi, does anyone know where I can find a breakdown of the state's results by borough? Thanks! --75.174.158.18 (talk) 22:15, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The NY Times, USA Today, Alaska Division of Elections, etc have the electoral district breakdown available. If I'm not mistaken, the state certified their results, although there still may be a few votes coming in from Electoral District 38. Dobbyelf62 (talk) 01:28, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Borough and electoral districts are different breakdowns. I've already seen the ED results. --75.174.158.18 (talk) 06:25, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@Dobbyelf62 Could we get a map of borough results on WP? EPicmAx4

Inaccurate Map for Borough Results
The maps for borough results are not accurate (see https://davesredistricting.org/maps#state::AK). The source for those maps, RRH elections, displays internal inconsistencies when showing the maps. Specifically, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area did not flip in 2020. I made the change in boroughs and census areas flipped. The maps in this article need to be updated accordingly. Closetside (talk) 18:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)