Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2020–20242 cycles · 2 audited
2024 turnout
84.7%3,883 participants ÷ 4,586 CVAP
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
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20202024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
3,883
4,586 ± 344
84.7%
Audited
E/A
3,951
4,403 ± 384
89.7%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
presidential history
Party record book
South Lakes, AK · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
John Kerry2004
25.9%
156 votes · R+44.9
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 25.7%
Republican
John McCain2008
76.8%
1,678 votes · R+54.9
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 72.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
702votes
25.7% of the vote · R+44.6
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 661 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,921votes
70.3% of the vote · R+44.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,895 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
John Kerry2004
−42.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+44.9 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −43.1 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
+62.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.9 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +55.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 1 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
South Lakes · 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. The figures below are Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, the county containing South Lakes — South Lakes’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in South Lakes, 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.
South Lakes sits in the Pacific Northwest and Arctic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 54.9 points in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 1.8 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.6 points.
A population of 6,180, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,141 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Tanaina and North Lakes.
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Political twins — cities
The cities 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.
In 2024, South Lakes, Alaska voted Republican by 44.6 points (R+44.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 2,734 votes cast, 702 went Democratic and 1,921 went Republican.
How many people live in South Lakes, Alaska?
South Lakes, Alaska has a population of 6,180 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in South Lakes, Alaska?
Median household income in South Lakes, Alaska is $98,141 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of South Lakes, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in South Lakes, Alaska from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 0 went Democratic and 6 went Republican.
