Fairbanks · 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 · 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, 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 in Fairbanks: 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
The Fairbanks media market spans remote Interior and Arctic communities where turnout logistics rival candidate messaging in importance, and Native Alaskan voters represent a decisive share of the electorate in many district-level races.
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 market 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 market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Anchorage and Topeka.
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The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Fairbanks, 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, Alaska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Fairbanks, Alaska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Fairbanks, Alaska?
Fairbanks, 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, Alaska?
Median household income in Fairbanks, 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, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Fairbanks, Alaska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 15 went Republican.
