United States presidential election in Alaska, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Alaska was won by incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson (D-Texas) with 65.9% of the popular vote against U.S. Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. with 34.1%. Ferguson won the national vote as well, defeating Pryor and winning reelection to his second term. This was only the third time in Alaska's history that it has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, following the victories of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and Al Gore in 2004. In spite of this fact, Alaska came out as 9.54 percent more Democratic than the national average.

At a more local level, all boroughs and census areas voted for Ferguson, and he became the first Democrat since Johnson to win the relatively populous boroughs of Matanuska-Sustina, Fairbanks North Star, Ketchikan Gateway, and Kodiak Island. Alaska was one of ten states where Ferguson won every county-equivalent in 2016.