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I think the data from Alaska should be excluded, all counties have the same ratio.

Thanks for pointing that out! It looks like every county in Alaska is just showing the state-level vote ratio. Might have to do with Alaska having boroughs instead of counties? I'll look into this later; I've added a disclaimer at the bottom of the notebook for now.

It looks like the data is being pulled from Townhall, which has the same issue [1]. Wikipedia has seems to have the data [2], though the percentages are a little different (51.3% for Trump rather than 52.9%). Perhaps it is wrong because not all land in Alaska is part of a borough, Eg: Nome is listed separately, but it is just a census area.

Interesting that it seems to have the reverse trend -- Anchorage and Fairbanks went for Trump while much of the unorganized borough went to Clinton.

[1] - https://townhall.com/election/2016/president/ak/county [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

I'm the author of the GitHub repo that Jake references and the reason I stated Alaska totals at the state level is because elections there are administered at the precinct level, which have no county equivalent.

Alaska's "county equivalents", as the U.S. Census calls them, are known as Census Areas, Municipalities, and Boroughs. But again, there are no election data reported at those levels.

See here for more detail: https://github.com/tonmcg/US_County_Level_Election_Results_0...

You rock for looking into this. When I have a chance I'll merge the Wikipedia data into the dataset I'm using. Thanks!

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