[1] Alaska voters chose three electors[2] to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Mike Pence, against Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, United States Senator Kamala Harris of California.
The Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Alliance Party nominees were also on the ballot, as was an Independent candidate.
The state party still formally conducted the higher meetings in their walking subcaucus-type delegate selection system.
Jorgensen would become the party's nominee after being elected on the fourth ballot, her running mate being entrepreneur and podcaster Spike Cohen.
[16][17] Several of Trump's environmental policies involved loosening restrictions on energy, hunting, and mining in Alaska: he instructed the Department of Agriculture to exempt Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions;[18] supported the construction of Pebble Mine, an unpopular[19] gold and copper mine in Bristol Bay (though the permit was ultimately denied);[20] rolled back limits on hunters in federal land in Alaska;[21] and opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
[22] While these policies expanded their respective industries, they were met with opposition among environmental groups and the Gwich'in, whose sacred land is partly within the refuge.
[26] Trump's environmental and gun policy also included reviving hunting techniques in Alaska, an action condemned by several animal rights groups.
Don Blankenship,[58] Brock Pierce,[59] and Rocky De La Fuente,[60] all of which were on the ballot, did not raise any money from the state.
These electors were nominated by each party in order to vote in the Electoral College should their candidate win the state:[66] As expected, there was a nationwide delay in reporting election results, due to the extreme influx of absentee and mail-in ballots as a public health measure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
[72] Gail Felunumiai, Alaska's Director of Elections, attributed the delay to the need to verify that voters who voted by mail and also at their polling places did not have their ballots counted twice.
[73] The Associated Press called the race for Trump on November 11 at 12:16 PM EST (8:16 AM AKST),[9][75] 4 days after President-elect Biden won the national election.
[78] However, the Alaska Division of Elections does release official results by State House district, which are listed in the table below.
Biden narrowly won Anchorage, the state's largest city, outperforming local Democrats.
James Brooks at the Anchorage Daily News attributed Trump's victory to strong performances in the Kenai Peninsula and Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
[85] In the United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, incumbent Republican Don Young underperformed Trump by 0.92 percentage points against Democrat-endorsed independent Alyse Galvin.
[86] The following are estimates from exit polls conducted by the University of Chicago for the Associated Press interviewing 689 likely voters in Alaska, adjusted to match the actual vote count.