Fairbanks-College, AK · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1960–2024 · 17 presidential cycles · 16 with a vote-share denominator · 17 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
57.7%
4,810 votes · D+15.4
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 40.3%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
66.3%
18,791 votes · R+37.4
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 64.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
18,249votes
40.3% of the vote · R+14.6
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 17,029 votes
Republican
John McCain2008
27,327votes
61.6% of the vote · R+25.8
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2000 · 25,529 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
George McGovern1972
+8.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+15.0 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +3.0 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+36.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.2 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +33.1 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Fairbanks-College, AK · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Fairbanks-College, AK, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+14.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+18.0
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 3.9 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Fairbanks-College, AK in Fairbanks-College, AK: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−1,607
2012
+571
2013
−1,071
2014
−3,241
2015
−1,304
2016
−535
2017
−2,348
2018
−2,166
2019
−2,763
2021
−425
2022
−679
2023
−1,186
2024
−2,062
2025
−1,447
Fairbanks-College blends a sizable military and university population with a deep-rooted resource-economy workforce, producing a competitive mix that has swung statewide races by narrowing margins in interior precincts.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 37.4 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.0 points.
A population of 95,460, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,267 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Anchorage, AK and Walla Walla, WA.
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Political twins — metros
The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska vote in 2024?
In 2024, Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska voted Republican by 18.0 points (R+18.0), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 43,707 votes cast, 17,029 went Democratic and 24,880 went Republican.
When did Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska?
Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska has a population of 95,460 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska?
Median household income in Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska is $88,267 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fairbanks-College, AK, Alaska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
