Ketchikan, AK · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1960–2024 · 17 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62.5%
2,275 votes · D+24.9
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 47.5%
Republican
George W. Bush2000
70.3%
4,681 votes · R+51.0
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 66.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,890votes
39.6% of the vote · R+16.6
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,497 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2000
4,681votes
70.3% of the vote · R+51.0
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 4,231 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+2.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.9 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · −0.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+51.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.0 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +49.5 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Ketchikan, 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: Ketchikan Gateway 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 Ketchikan, 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+14.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+19.1
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.8 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Ketchikan, AK in Ketchikan, AK: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−22
2012
−79
2013
−155
2014
−19
2015
−201
2016
−105
2017
+19
2018
−75
2019
−42
2021
−159
2022
−124
2023
−77
2024
−87
2025
−146
Ketchikan anchors the island-dotted Panhandle, where the commercial fishing industry and a heavy cruise-ship economy shape voter priorities more than the oil-patch concerns that dominate Interior Alaska politics.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 24.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 51.0 points in 2000. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.1 points.
A population of 13,768, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,885 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fairbanks-College, AK and Anchorage, AK.
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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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In 2024, Ketchikan, AK, Alaska voted Republican by 19.1 points (R+19.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 6,499 votes cast, 2,497 went Democratic and 3,737 went Republican.
When did Ketchikan, AK, Alaska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Ketchikan, AK, Alaska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Ketchikan, AK, Alaska?
Ketchikan, AK, Alaska has a population of 13,768 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Ketchikan, AK, Alaska?
Median household income in Ketchikan, AK, Alaska is $92,885 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Ketchikan, AK, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Ketchikan, AK, Alaska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
