Anchorage · 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
61.5%
17,164 votes · D+23.1
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 47.0%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
69.4%
81,231 votes · R+42.3
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 62.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
95,164votes
41.0% of the vote · R+14.5
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 88,488 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
128,817votes
55.5% of the vote · R+14.5
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 125,946 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
+0.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.1 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Hubert Humphrey, 1968 · −1.6 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
+33.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.1 · U.S. D+0.5
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +33.3 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Anchorage · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Anchorage, 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+14.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+16.5
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 2.1 points.
Domestic migration in Anchorage in Anchorage: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+437
2012
−996
2013
−676
2014
−3,559
2015
−4,378
2016
−2,181
2017
−5,996
2018
−6,403
2019
−4,500
2021
−140
2022
−1,551
2023
−1,266
2024
−696
2025
−1,462
Anchorage's media market reaches roughly 60% of Alaska's population, blending a large active-duty and veteran electorate with growing Alaska Native communities whose turnout patterns increasingly shape statewide margins.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 42.3 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.5 points.
A population of 462,377, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,051 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Fairbanks and Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers.
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Political twins — media markets
The media markets 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, Anchorage, Alaska voted Republican by 16.5 points (R+16.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 221,653 votes cast, 88,488 went Democratic and 124,957 went Republican.
When did Anchorage, Alaska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Anchorage, Alaska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Anchorage, Alaska?
Anchorage, Alaska has a population of 462,377 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Anchorage, Alaska?
Median household income in Anchorage, Alaska is $98,051 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Anchorage, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Anchorage, Alaska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 16 went Republican.
