Political party strength in Alaska
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The following table indicates the parties of elected officials in the U.S. state of Alaska:
- Governor, including pre-statehood governors, who were appointed by the U.S. president and usually of the same political party; and
- Lieutenant Governor
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- Territorial and State Senate
- Territorial and State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives, including non-voting delegates elected pre-statehood
For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Pre-statehood (1884–1958)[edit]
| Year | Executive offices | Territorial Legislature[1] | United States Congress | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Senate | House | Delegate | |
| 1884 | John Henry Kinkead (R) | no such bodies | no such office | |
| 1885 | Alfred P. Swineford (D) | |||
| … | ||||
| 1888 | ||||
| 1889 | Lyman Enos Knapp (R) | |||
| … | ||||
| 1892 | ||||
| 1893 | James Sheakley (D) | |||
| … | ||||
| 1896 | ||||
| 1897 | John Green Brady (R) | |||
| … | ||||
| 1905 | ||||
| 1906 | Wilford Bacon Hoggatt (R) | Frank Hinman Waskey (D)[a] | ||
| 1907 | Thomas Cale (I)[a] | |||
| 1908 | ||||
| 1909 | Walter Eli Clark (R) | James Wickersham (R)[a] | ||
| 1910 | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| 1912 | ||||
| 1913 | John Franklin Alexander Strong (D) |
3NP, 2D, 1I, 1IR, 1R | 10NP, 2R, 1D, 1IR, 1PH, 1 vac. | |
| 1914 | ||||
| 1915 | 3D, 3NP, 1I, 1Prog | 7NP, 3D, 3I, 1H, 1ID, 1R | ||
| 1916 | ||||
| 1917 | 3D, 2NP, 1IR, 1Prog, 1R | 7D, 6R, 2I, 1PD | Charles A. Sulzer (D)[a][b] | |
| 1918 | Thomas Riggs Jr. (D) | |||
| 1919 | 5D, 2NP, 1IR | 11D, 4R, 1I | James Wickersham (R)[a] | |
| Charles A. Sulzer (D)[a][c] | ||||
| vacant | ||||
| 1920 | ||||
| George B. Grigsby (D)[a][b] | ||||
| 1921 | Scott Cordelle Bone (R) | 4D, 3R, 1IR | 11R, 2I, 1D, 1ID, 1IR | James Wickersham (R)[a] |
| Daniel Sutherland (R)[a] | ||||
| 1922 | ||||
| 1923 | 5R, 2I, 1D | 11R, 4I, 1D | ||
| 1924 | ||||
| 1925 | George Alexander Parks (R) | 4R, 2D, 2I | 9R, 4D, 2I, 1IR | |
| 1926 | ||||
| 1927 | 5R, 2I, 1D | 12R, 3D, 1I | ||
| 1928 | ||||
| 1929 | 5R, 2D, 1I | 9R, 3D, 3I, 1IR | ||
| 1930 | ||||
| 1931 | 4D, 4R | 11R, 4D, 1I | James Wickersham (R)[a] | |
| 4R, 3D, 1 vac.[d] | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| 1933 | John Weir Troy (D) | 6D, 2R | 12D, 4R | Anthony Dimond (D)[a] |
| 1934 | ||||
| 1935 | 8D | 15D, 1R | ||
| 1936 | ||||
| 1937 | 14D, 2R | |||
| 1938 | ||||
| 1939 | 7D, 1R | 16D | ||
| 1940 | Ernest Gruening (D) | |||
| 1941 | 14D, 2R | |||
| 1942 | ||||
| 1943 | 16D | |||
| 1944 | ||||
| 1945 | 14D, 2R | 20D, 4R | Bob Bartlett (D)[a] | |
| 1946 | ||||
| 1947 | 9D, 7R | 13R, 11D | ||
| 1948 | ||||
| 1949 | 19D, 5R | |||
| 1950 | ||||
| 1951 | 14D, 10R | |||
| 1952 | ||||
| 1953 | B. Frank Heintzleman (R) | 11R, 5D | 19R, 5D | |
| 1954 | ||||
| 1955 | 12D, 4R | 21D, 3R | ||
| 1956 | ||||
| 1957 | Waino Hendrickson (acting) (R) | 11D, 5R | ||
| Mike Stepovich (R) | ||||
| 1958 | ||||
| Waino Hendrickson (acting) (R) | ||||
1959–present[edit]
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature[2] | United States Congress | Electoral votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lt. Governor | Senate | House | U.S. Senate (Class II) | U.S. Senate (Class III) | House | ||
| 1959 | William A. Egan (D) | Hugh Wade (D) | 18D, 2R | 34D, 5R, 1I | Bob Bartlett (D)[c] | Ernest Gruening (D) | Ralph Rivers (D)[e] | |
| 1960 | Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) 
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| 1961 | 13D, 7R | 20D, 19R, 1I | ||||||
| 1962 | ||||||||
| 1963 | 15D, 5R | 20D, 20R[f] | ||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D) 
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| 1965 | 17D, 3R | 30D, 10R | ||||||
| 1966 | ||||||||
| 1967 | Wally Hickel (R)[g] | Keith Harvey Miller (R) | 14R, 6D | 26R, 14D | Howard Pollock (R) | |||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R)
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| Ted Stevens (R)[h] | ||||||||
| 1969 | 11R, 9D | 22D, 18R | Mike Gravel (D) | |||||
| Keith Harvey Miller (R)[i] | Robert W. Ward (R)[i] | |||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1971 | William A. Egan (D) | H. A. Boucher (D) | 10D, 10R[j] | 31D, 9R | Nick Begich (D)[c] | |||
| 1972 | ||||||||
| 1973 | 11R, 9D | 20D, 19R, 1NP[k][l] | Don Young (R)[m][c] | |||||
| 1974 | ||||||||
| 1975 | Jay Hammond (R) | Lowell Thomas Jr. (R) | 13D, 7R | 30D, 9R, 1I | ||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole (R)
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| 1977 | 12D, 8R | 25D, 15R | ||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||
| 1979 | Terry Miller (R) | 11R, 9D | 25D, 14R, 1L | |||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R)
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| 1981 | 10D, 10R[n] | 22D, 16R, 2L | Frank Murkowski (R)[o] | |||||
| 22D, 16R, 2L[p] | ||||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
| 1983 | Bill Sheffield (D) | Steve McAlpine (D) | 11R, 9D[n] | 20D, 20R[f] | ||||
| 1984 | ||||||||
| 1985 | 11R, 9D | 21D, 18R, 1L | ||||||
| 1986 | ||||||||
| 1987 | Steve Cowper (D) | 12R, 8D | 24D, 16R | |||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1989 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 1991 | Wally Hickel (AKIP) | Jack Coghill (AKIP) | 10D, 10R[j] | 23D, 17R | ||||
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1993 | 10R, 9D, 1ID[j] | 20D, 18R, 1AKIP, 1I[q] | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||
| Wally Hickel (R) | 21D, 18R, 1I[r] | |||||||
| 1995 | Tony Knowles (D) | Fran Ulmer (D) | 12R, 7D, 1ID | 22R, 17D, 1I | ||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole/ Jack Kemp (R)
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| 1997 | 14R, 6D | 25R, 15D | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||
| 1999 | 15R, 5D | 26R, 14D | ||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney (R)
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| 2001 | 14R, 6D | 27R, 13D | ||||||
| 2002 | ||||||||
| 2003 | Frank Murkowski (R) | Loren Leman (R) | 12R, 8D[s] | Lisa Murkowski (R)[t] | ||||
| 2004 | ||||||||
| 2005 | 26R, 14D | |||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||
| 2007 | Sarah Palin (R)[u] | Sean Parnell (R) | 11R, 9D[v] | 23R, 17D | ||||
| 2008 | John McCain/ Sarah Palin (R)
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| 2009 | Sean Parnell (R)[i] | Craig Campbell (R)[t] | 10R, 10D[w] | 22R, 18D | Mark Begich (D) | |||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2011 | Mead Treadwell (R) | 24R, 16D[x] | ||||||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan (R)
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| 2013 | 13R, 7D[y] | 26R, 14D[x] | ||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||
| 2015 | Bill Walker (I) | Byron Mallott (D)[u][6] | 14R, 6D[z] | 23R, 16D, 1I[x] | Dan Sullivan (R) | |||
| 2016 | Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R)
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| 2017 | 21R, 17D, 2I[aa] | |||||||
| 2018 | Valerie Davidson (D)[i] | |||||||
| 2019 | Mike Dunleavy (R) | Kevin Meyer (R) | 13R, 7D[z] | 23R, 15D, 2I[ab] | ||||
| 2020 | Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R)
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| 2021 | 21R, 15D, 4I[ac] | |||||||
| 2022 | Mary Peltola (D)[m][ad] | |||||||
| 2023 | Nancy Dahlstrom (R) | 11R, 9D[ae] | 21R, 13D, 6I[af] | |||||
| 2024 | [to be determined] | |||||||
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Delegate from Territory of Alaska.
- ^ a b Election successfully contested.
- ^ a b c d Died in office.
- ^ A Democratic senator died 17 days after the legislative session began. The seat was left vacant and the legislature continued with a Democratic Senate president.
- ^ Resigned following electoral defeat.
- ^ a b The House elected a Republican as Speaker.
- ^ Resigned to become United States Secretary of the Interior.
- ^ Initially elected in a special election.
- ^ a b c d Ascended to office following the resignation of predecessor.
- ^ a b c The Senate elected a Republican as President.
- ^ Led by a coalition with a Republican House speaker, Tom Fink.
- ^ The "no party" member, Frank R. Ferguson, was elected as a write-in after losing the Democratic primary as an incumbent. He served in the previous and following legislatures as a Democrat.
- ^ a b Initially elected in a special election.
- ^ a b The Senate elected a Democrat as president.
- ^ Resigned December 2, 2002 to take office as Governor of Alaska.
- ^ The Democratic Speaker of the House, Jim Duncan, was voted out on June 16, 1981, eight days before the end of session. He was replaced by a tri-partisan coalition of Republicans, native Bush Democrats, and Libertarians (the Libertarians later dropped out) led by Republican Joe Hayes, which remained through the end of this Legislature. The overall partisan composition of the House remained unchanged, and the coalition led by Hayes was preserved in a slightly different form in the next Legislature as well.[3][4]
- ^ Led by a coalition with a Republican House Speaker, Ramona L. Barnes.[5]
- ^ The representative elected under the AKIP banner, Carl E. Moses, switched his party affiliation to Democratic on May 24, 1994, shortly after Hickel's party switch, but the coalition that elected the Republican Speaker stayed in place.
- ^ One senator was elected under the Republican Moderate Party banner, but switched his party affiliation to Republican before the actual start of his term.
- ^ a b Appointed to fill a vacancy.
- ^ a b Resigned.
- ^ A coalition of six Republicans and the Senate's nine Democrats made up the majority caucus.
- ^ From 2009-2011, six Republicans joined the ten Democrats to form a governing coalition. From 2011-2013, five Republicans governed with the ten Democrats.
- ^ a b c Four Democrats caucused with the Republican majority.
- ^ Two Democrats caucused with the Republican majority.
- ^ a b One Democrat caucused with the Republican majority.
- ^ Three Republicans and both Independents caucused with the Democrats to form a governing coalition.
- ^ Six Republicans and both Independents caucused with the Democrats to form a governing coalition.
- ^ Two Republicans and all Independents caucused with all Democrats to form a governing coalition. Two Republicans are not members of a caucus.
- ^ Seat was vacant from March 18–September 13, 2022
- ^ Eight Republicans and all nine Democrats caucused together to form the governing coalition.
- ^ Nineteen Republicans, two Democrats, and two Independents caucused together to form the governing coalition.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members, 1913-2013
- ^ Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members, 1913-2013
- ^ p. 59-62
- ^ "Steve Haycox: Alaskans know something about legislative upheaval". Anchorage Daily News. 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ p. 71-72
- ^ Zak, Annie; Hanlon, Tegan; DeMarban, Alex (October 16, 2018). "Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott abruptly resigns following "inappropriate comments"". Anchorage Daily News.