Alaska's at-large congressional district

Alaska's at-large congressional district
Alaska's at-large congressional district
Representative	Don Young; R–Fort Yukon
Area	665,384.04 sq mi (1,723,336.8 km2)
Distribution	65.7% urban; 34.3% rural;
Population (2019)	731,545
Median household; income	$73,181
Ethnicity	64.18% White; 14.86% Native American; 8.57% Two or more races; 6.68% Asian; 2.99% Black; 1.52% other; 1.19% Pacific Islander Americans;
Occupation	60.5% White-collar; 22.4% Blue-collar; 17.1% Gray-collar;
Cook PVI	R+9

Since becoming a U.S. state in 1959, Alaska has been entitled to one member in the United States House of Representatives, elected in the state's sole, at-large congressional district.

On March 6, 1973, Republican Don Young was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Currently, he is up for reelection in 2020.^[5]

By area, Alaska's congressional district is the largest congressional district in the United States, and is the second largest electoral district in the world, behind only Nunavut, Canada. The second largest congressional district is Montana's at-large congressional district. However, it is less than a quarter of the size of Alaska.

History

The district was created when Alaska achieved statehood on January 3, 1959, to elect Alaska's single member of Congress. Since then, Alaska has had a single congressional district.

Voter registration

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Voter registration as of January 5, 2018
Party		Total voters	Percentage
Unaffiliated	287,965	53.93%
Republican	141,547	26.51%
Democratic	76,330	15.29%
Minor parties	28,131	5.27%
Total		533,973	100%

Presidential election results

Election results from presidential races:

Year	Office	Results
1960	President	Richard Nixon 51% - John F. Kennedy 49%
1964	President	Lyndon B. Johnson 66% - Barry Goldwater 34%
1968	President	Richard Nixon 45% - Hubert Humphrey 43%
1972	President	Richard Nixon 58% - George McGovern 35%
1976	President	Gerald Ford 58% - Jimmy Carter 36%
1980	President	Ronald Reagan 54% - Jimmy Carter 26%
1984	President	Ronald Reagan 67% - Walter Mondale 30%
1988	President	George H. W. Bush 60% - Michael Dukakis 36%
1992	President	George H. W. Bush 39% - Bill Clinton 30%
1996	President	Bob Dole 51% - Bill Clinton 33%
2000	President	George W. Bush 59% - Al Gore 28%
2004	President	George W. Bush 61% - John Kerry 36%
2008	President	John McCain 59% - Barack Obama 38%
2012	President	Mitt Romney 55% - Barack Obama 41%
2016	President	Donald Trump 51% - Hillary Clinton 37%

List of members representing the district

Representative	Party	Term	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created January 3, 1959
Ralph J. Rivers	Democratic	January 3, 1959 – December 30, 1966	86th 87th 88th 89th	Elected in 1958. Re-elected in 1960. Re-elected in 1962. Re-elected in 1964. Lost re-election, then resigned early.
Vacant		December 30, 1966 – January 3, 1967	89th
Howard W. Pollock	Republican	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971	90th 91st	Elected in 1966. Re-elected in 1968. Retired to run for Alaska governor.
Nick Begich	Democratic	January 3, 1971 – December 29, 1972	92nd	Elected in 1970. Went missing October 16, 1972. Re-elected in 1972. Declared dead December 29, 1972.
Vacant		December 29, 1972 – March 6, 1973	92nd
Don Young	Republican	March 6, 1973 – present	93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th 117th 118th	Elected to finish Begich's term. Re-elected in 1974. Re-elected in 1976. Re-elected in 1978. Re-elected in 1980. Re-elected in 1982. Re-elected in 1984. Re-elected in 1986. Re-elected in 1988. Re-elected in 1990. Re-elected in 1992. Re-elected in 1994. Re-elected in 1996. Re-elected in 1998. Re-elected in 2000. Re-elected in 2002. Re-elected in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018.

Election results

This district is normally considered safely Republican because no Democrat has been elected since 1972 and because incumbent Don Young has rarely faced a serious challenge since 1992 when he beat Mayor John Devens (D-Valdez) by 4%. Although allegations of corruption against Young led Democrats to target this seat in 2008, Young retained his seat.

1958 to 2004

Year	Republican			Democratic			Green			Libertarian			Others			Write-in^[6]
Year	Candidate	Votes	Pct	Candidate	Votes	Pct	Candidate	Votes	Pct	Candidate	Votes	Pct	Candidate	Votes	Pct	Votes	Pct
1958	Henry A. Benson	20,699	42.5%	Ralph Rivers	27,948	57.5%
1960	R. L. Rettig	25,517	43.2%	Ralph Rivers (inc.)	33,546	56.8%
1962	Lowell Thomas, Jr.	26,638	44%	Ralph Rivers (inc.)	33,953	56%
1964	Lowell Thomas, Jr.	32,556	48.5%	Ralph Rivers (inc.)	34,590	51.5%
1966	Howard W. Pollock	34,040	51.6%	Ralph Rivers (inc.)	31,867	48.4%
1968	Howard W. Pollock (inc.)	43,577	54.2%	Nick Begich	36,785	45.8%
1970	Frank Murkowski	35,947	44.9%	Nick Begich	44,137	55.1%
1972	Don Young	41,750	43.8%	Nick Begich (inc.)	53,651	56.2%
1973	Don Young	35,044	51.4%	Emil Notti	33,123	48.6%
1974	Don Young (inc.)	51,641	53.8%	William L. Hensley	44,280	46.2%
1976	Don Young (inc.)	83,722	70.8%	Eben Hopson	34,194	28.9%										292	0.2%
1978	Don Young (inc.)	68,811	55.4%	Patrick Rodey	55,176	44.4%										200	0.2%
1980	Don Young (inc.)	114,089	73.8%	Kevin Parnell	39,922	25.8%										607	0.4%
1982	Don Young (inc.)	128,274	70.8%	Dave Carlson	52,011	28.7%										799	0.4%
1984	Don Young (inc.)	113,582	55%	Pegge Begich	86,052	41.7%							Betty Breck (I)	6,508	3.2%	295	0.1%
1986	Don Young (inc.)	101,799	56.5%	Pegge Begich	74,053	41.1%				Betty Breck	4,182	2.3%				243	0.1%
1988	Don Young (inc.)	120,595	62.5%	Peter Gruenstein	71,881	37.3%										479	0.2%
1990	Don Young (inc.)	99,003	51.7%	John S. Devens	91,677	47.8%										967	0.5%
1992	Don Young (inc.)	111,849	46.8%	John S. Devens	102,378	42.8%	Mike Milligan	9,529	4%				Michael States (AI)	15,049	6.3%	311	0.1%
1994	Don Young (inc.)	118,537	56.9%	Tony Smith	68,172	32.7%	Joni Whitmore	21,277	10.2%							254	0.1%
1996	Don Young (inc.)	138,834	59.4%	Georgianna Lincoln	85,114	36.4%	John J. G. Grames	4,513	1.9%				William J. Nemec II (AI)	5,017	2.1%	222	0.1%
1998	Don Young (inc.)	139,676	62.6%	Jim Duncan	77,232	34.6%	John J. G. Grames	5,923	2.7%							469	0.2%
2000	Don Young (inc.)	190,862	69.6%	Clifford Mark Greene	45,372	16.5%	Anna C. Young	22,440	8.2%	Leonard J. Karpinski	4,802	1.8%	Jim Dore (AI)	10,085	3.7%	832	0.3%
2002	Don Young (inc.)	169,685	74.5%	Clifford Mark Greene	39,357	17.3%	Russell deForest	14,435	6.3%	Rob Clift	3,797	1.7%				291	0.1%
2004	Don Young (inc.)	213,216	71.1%	Thomas M. Higgins	67,074	22.4%	Timothy A. Feller	11,434	3.8%	Alvin A. Anders	7,157	2.4%				1,115	0.4%
Year	Republican			Democratic			Green			Libertarian			Others			Write-in

Source: "Election Statistics". Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Archived from the original on 30 July 2008. Retrieved August 8, 2008.

2006 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	132,743	56.57%	−14.50%
	Democratic	Diane Benson	93,879	40.01%	+17.65%
	Libertarian	Alexander Crawford	4,029	1.72%	−0.67%
	Green	Eva Ince	1,819	0.78%	−3.03%
	Independent	William Ratigan	1,615	0.69%
	Independent	Write-In Votes	560	0.24%	−.13%
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			234,645

2008 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	158,939	50.14	−6.43
	Democratic	Ethan Berkowitz	142,560	44.98	+4.97
	Independent	Don Wright	14,274	4.50	+4.50
	Independent	Write-In Votes	1,205	0.38	+0.14
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			316,978

2010 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	175,384	68.96	+18.82
	Democratic	Harry Crawford	77,606	30.51	−14.47
	Independent	Write-In Votes	1,345	0.53	+0.15
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			254,335

2012 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	185,296	63.94	−5.02
	Democratic	Sharon Cissna	82,927	28.62	−1.89
	Libertarian	Jim McDermott	15,028	5.19	+5.19
	Independent	Ted Gianoutsos	5,589	1.93	+1.93
	Independent	Write-In Votes	964	0.33	−0.20
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			289,804

2014 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	142,260	50.95	−12.99
	Democratic	Forrest Dunbar	114,317	40.94	+12.32
	Libertarian	Jim McDermott	21,373	7.65	+2.46
	Independent	Write-In Votes	1,269	0.45	+0.12
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			279,219

2016 election

United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (inc.)	155,088	50.32	−0.63
	Democratic	Steve Lindbeck	111,019	36.02	−4.92
	Libertarian	Jim McDermott	31,770	10.31	+2.66
	Independent	Bernie Souphanavong	9,093	2.95	+2.95
	Independent	Write-In Votes	1,228	0.40	−0.05
	Republican hold		Swing
Turnout			308,198

2018 election

2018 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Young (incumbent)	149,779	53.08%	+2.76%
	Independent	Alyse S. Galvin^[a]	131,199	46.50%	+10.48%
	Write-in		1,188	0.42%	+0.02%
Total votes			'*282,166'*	'*100%'*	N/A

Notes

^ Also listed as having the Democratic nomination.

References

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^ https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=02
^ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
^ "2020 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska", Wikipedia, 2019-07-17, retrieved 2019-08-16
^ Prior to the 1976 election, official election returns released by the State of Alaska were typewritten rather than computer generated, and write-in votes were not included in published vote totals
^ Johnson, Cheryl L. (February 28, 2019). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved April 27, 2019.

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[Galvin-8] Also listed as having the Democratic nomination.

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[Cook-4] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[5] "2020 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska", Wikipedia, 2019-07-17, retrieved 2019-08-16

[6] Prior to the 1976 election, official election returns released by the State of Alaska were typewritten rather than computer generated, and write-in votes were not included in published vote totals

[clerk2018-7] Johnson, Cheryl L. (February 28, 2019). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved April 27, 2019.

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Alaska's at-large congressional district

Representative	Don Young R–Fort Yukon
Area	665,384.04^[1] sq mi (1,723,336.8 km²)
Distribution	65.7% urban 34.3% rural
Population (2019)	731,545^[2]
Median household income	$73,181^[3]
Ethnicity	64.18% White 14.86% Native American 8.57% Two or more races 6.68% Asian 2.99% Black 1.52% other 1.19% Pacific Islander Americans
Occupation	60.5% White-collar 22.4% Blue-collar 17.1% Gray-collar
Cook PVI	R+9^[4]

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