The 1992 presidential election in Alaska was interesting. The winner there (Bush) was held to under 40% because Perot received over 28% of the vote. As the map below shows, Perot even won a county equivalent - Denali Borough:
Perot's statewide weakness was in rural areas off of the road network. He tended to do better in traditionally Republican areas like Mat-Su and Kenai:
Here's a similar map of the Bush and Clinton percentages by Alaska county equivalent:
The 1992-96 all-party county equivalent swing map shows wild swings toward both sides, probably due to Perot:
Unfortunately, I can't make a 1992 precinct map - yet. I don't have the necessary shapefile or even the legal descriptions of the 1992 boundaries to make a shapefile, and the 1992 map is very different from 1996. Perot won 42 of the 469 or so Election Day Precincts. Perot also won the Question vote in a majority of HDs. Of Perot's 42 precincts, 9 were in Kenai, 7 in Mat-Su and 5 each in Fairbanks, Prince of Wales-Hyder and Yukon-Koyukuk. Perot only won 1 Anchorage precinct and 0 in Juneau.
Very cool, I love your work on this.
