Alaska map by census boroughs

[catographer]

I'm a fan of Alaskan election results maps that use the boroughs and county-equivalents from the census instead of house districts because the house districts can be too numerous and tiny and convoluted.

Wiki's county map got an update for Alaska. An editor added results for Alaska by boroughs. The comment he left in the edit was "Borough Results calculated from precincts just like 2004,2008,2012 maps, uniformity should be maintained & boroughs are AK equivalent to counties, not state house districts."

Idk how he calculated them or where his calculations are. Anybody else got numbers for this? I'll trust his map for now tho.

better quality on wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_presidential_election_results_by_county,_2016.svg

[America Needs R'hllor]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

[Tintrlvr]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

The Dakotas and Wyoming have a less extreme version of that pattern (Democrats win in select rural/small town areas, Republicans win all urban areas), and for similar demographic reasons in the case of the Dakotas.

[RINO Tom]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

Isn't New Hampshire like this, as well (Boston suburbs are the most Republican areas of the state)?  I can't think of another state where the rural areas vote to the left of the suburban areas, but until recently (maybe post-2012?), the following would have been candidates:

Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Illinois if you stretch it back to the '90s!

[Tintrlvr]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

Isn't New Hampshire like this, as well (Boston suburbs are the most Republican areas of the state)?  I can't think of another state where the rural areas vote to the left of the suburban areas, but until recently (maybe post-2012?), the following would have been candidates:

Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Illinois if you stretch it back to the '90s!

Good point about New Hampshire, although New Hampshire also has some relatively Republican rural areas in the north of the state (that were more Republican that the Boston exurbs this year though have been less Republican in the very recent past).

[MT Treasurer]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

Isn't New Hampshire like this, as well (Boston suburbs are the most Republican areas of the state)?  I can't think of another state where the rural areas vote to the left of the suburban areas, but until recently (maybe post-2012?), the following would have been candidates:

Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Illinois if you stretch it back to the '90s!

Isn't it still? In pretty much every federal and statewide race, the Milwaukee suburbs in WI are still the most Republican area in the state and much more Republican than the rural areas. Granted, the Madison suburbs are much more Democratic, but interesting nonetheless.

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Arizona to an extent as well

Maybe not this cycle though

[justfollowingtheelections]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

The Dakotas and Wyoming have a less extreme version of that pattern (Democrats win in select rural/small town areas, Republicans win all urban areas), and for similar demographic reasons in the case of the Dakotas.

Native Americans and Native Alaskans.  The same is true in Hawaii where Oahu is the best island for Republicans.

[DPKdebator]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

Isn't New Hampshire like this, as well (Boston suburbs are the most Republican areas of the state)?  I can't think of another state where the rural areas vote to the left of the suburban areas, but until recently (maybe post-2012?), the following would have been candidates:

Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Illinois if you stretch it back to the '90s!

The New Hampshire part of the Boston metro plus Plymouth County (minus Brockton) and western Worcester County are the most Republican parts of the region.

[catographer]

Oklahoma definitely had more Republican urban areas than rural areas in the 90s up thru 2004 (at the presidential level). Texas too; the 1988 map is striking in that Bush's best areas were the Dallas-Forth Worth and Houston areas, whereas Dukakis' best areas were the rural parts west of Dallas and the rural Hispanic south.

[Mr. Illini]

Funny how it's the only state where the Republicans win in the big city and the Democrats win in the large, less populated counties.

Isn't New Hampshire like this, as well (Boston suburbs are the most Republican areas of the state)?  I can't think of another state where the rural areas vote to the left of the suburban areas, but until recently (maybe post-2012?), the following would have been candidates:

Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota

Illinois if you stretch it back to the '90s!

You did limit it to suburban areas, though, when the original comment was "big city."

The rural areas of Illinois never voted to the left of Illinois' big city.

[Fmr. Speaker anna0kear]

I would just add that the same is largely true of the northeastern United States, and for New England, in particular. Take Vermont (a very rural state, doubtless) or Massachusetts, for example, as well the states you mentioned earlier, obviously. Of course, though, we free-living Granite Staters also have our own cities, such as Manchester and Nashua. Usually, both vote more Republican than the state in general, at the county level (they are located in Hillsborough) but a more granular view that considers the towns themselves would show that the southern portion of the state can indeed lean (slightly) blue, which is unexceptional, if not normal, for pretty much any American settlement of that size. Regardless, do the posters here have any information on the Alaska results, by borough or census division?

[Fmr. Speaker anna0kear]

I would just add that the same is largely true of the northeastern United States, and for New England, in particular. Take Vermont (a very rural state, doubtless) or Massachusetts, for example, as well the states you mentioned earlier, obviously. Of course, though, we free-living Granite Staters also have our own cities, such as Manchester and Nashua. Usually, both vote more Republican than the state in general, at the county level (they are located in Hillsborough) but a more granular view that considers the towns themselves would show that the southern portion of the state can indeed lean (slightly) blue, which is unexceptional, if not normal, for pretty much any American settlement of that size. Regardless, do the posters here have any information on the Alaska results, by borough or census division?