Alaskan Natives

2008 Electorate: Native Alaskans - An Economic Factor?

by: dreaminonempty

Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 14:42

Alaska: Land Without Counties.  You may have noticed every election results website (that I saw) showed you results by county for every state except Alaska.  That's because their vote is tallied by State House district instead, and it takes a bit of effort to reorganize the data for different geographic units - of which the closest equivalent to counties are boroughs and census areas.  Here's the map of the 2008 election results by State House district:

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Each district had somewhere between about 5000 and 12000 votes cast.  Democratic strength is centered in Anchorage and Juneau, while Republican strength is in the South Central region (outside of Anchorage) and Fairbanks.

So what about the Native Alaskan vote, about 10% of the total voters?

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