Alaska Borough Results - 2008

[minionofmidas]

2004:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=34547.0

2008:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=88046.0

5th post.

[minionofmidas]

Boroughs Won by Obama
*Juneau
*Sitka
*Skagway
*Yakutat
*Unorganized Borough (by census areas: Bethel, Nome, Hoonah-Angoon, Wade Hampton, Petersburg).

Certainly not.

Wrangell-Petersburg census area pre-incorporation of Wrangell Borough (an event I overlooked in calculating the results, unlike that of Skagway a couple of months earlier) had four precincts:

Wrangell, 599 R, 231 D, other 23
Petersburg/Kupreanof, 675 R, 465 D, other 39
Kake, 86 R, 84 D, other 8
Port Alexander, 12 D, 11 R, other 1

Assuming Wrangell borough to be identical with Wrangell precinct (which I didn't doublecheck but seems a fairly safe assumption), McCain won Petersburg Census Area 55.9-40.6 and Wrangell Borough 70.2-27.1.

[minionofmidas]

Here is a map of the 2008 results by election district of the Anchorage area. (Obama vs. McCain)


As you can see, the more urban areas near downtown vote Democratic, while the more suburban areas vote Republican. Anchorage is still a relatively small, predominately suburban city. By numbers alone, the 10+ suburban election districts (all EDs in the Anchorage area have relatively similar populations) dwarf the 4 urban districts.

Well duh, they're state house districts. They had the same population in 2000, of course they're mostly still the same size.

Note that the official city of Anchorage is not just the cluster of very small seats. The biggish one north of that (which is almost entirely two military bases) and the tiny one beyond that (really the suburb of Eagle River) are entirely within the city too. Of the two large ones beyond, the northern one is about 50% within the town and the southern one almost entirely so as far as population goes. This district is also now quite oversized as it includes lots of spanking new subdivisions that didn't exist in 2000. The eastern line of the two is the official eastern border of the city - of course its eastern half is largely uninhabited.