Political party strength in Alaska

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)

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

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) N
1961			13D, 7R	20D, 19R, 1I
1962
1963			15D, 5R	20D, 20R[f]
1964								Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D) Y
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) Y
					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) N
1977			12D, 8R	25D, 15R
1978
1979		Terry Miller (R)	11R, 9D	25D, 14R, 1L
1980								Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R) Y
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) Y
1989
1990
1991	Wally Hickel (AKIP)	Jack Coghill (AKIP)	10D, 10R[j]	23D, 17R
1992								George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R) N
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) N
1997			14R, 6D	25R, 15D
1998
1999			15R, 5D	26R, 14D
2000								George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney (R) Y
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) N
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) N
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) Y
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) N
2021				21R, 15D, 4I[ac]
2022							Mary Peltola (D)[m][ad]
2023		Nancy Dahlstrom (R)	11R, 9D[ae]	21R, 13D, 6I[af]
2024								Donald Trump/ JD Vance (R) Y

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) Know Nothing (KN) American Labor (AL) Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR) Anti-Administration (AA) Anti-Masonic (Anti-M) Conservative (Con) Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR) Democratic-Republican (DR) Farmer–Labor (FL) Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS) Fusion (Fus) Greenback (GB) Independence (IPM) Independent Democrat (ID) Independent Republican (IR) Jacksonian (J) Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L) National Union (NU) Nonpartisan League (NPL) Nullifier (N) Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O) Populist (Pop) Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh) Readjuster (Rea) Republican (R) Silver (Sv) Silver Republican (SvR) Socialist (Soc) Union (U) Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP) Whig (W) Independent (I) Nonpartisan (NP)

Notes

1. Delegate from Territory of Alaska.
2. Election successfully contested.
3. Died in office.
4. 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.
5. Resigned following electoral defeat.
6. The House elected a Republican as Speaker.
7. Resigned to become United States Secretary of the Interior.
8. Initially elected in a special election.
9. Ascended to office following the resignation of predecessor.
10. The Senate elected a Republican as President.
11. Led by a coalition with a Republican House speaker, Tom Fink.
12. 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.
13. Initially elected in a special election.
14. The Senate elected a Democrat as president.
15. Resigned December 2, 2002 to take office as Governor of Alaska.
16. 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]
17. Led by a coalition with a Republican House Speaker, Ramona L. Barnes.^[5]
18. 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.
19. One senator was elected under the Republican Moderate Party banner, but switched his party affiliation to Republican before the actual start of his term.
20. Appointed to fill a vacancy.
21. Resigned.
22. A coalition of six Republicans and the Senate's nine Democrats made up the majority caucus.
23. From 2009-2011, six Republicans joined the ten Democrats to form a governing coalition. From 2011-2013, five Republicans governed with the ten Democrats.
24. Four Democrats caucused with the Republican majority.
25. Two Democrats caucused with the Republican majority.
26. One Democrat caucused with the Republican majority.
27. Three Republicans and both Independents caucused with the Democrats to form a governing coalition.
28. Six Republicans and both Independents caucused with the Democrats to form a governing coalition.
29. Two Republicans and all Independents caucused with all Democrats to form a governing coalition. Two Republicans are not members of a caucus.
30. Seat was vacant from March 18–September 13, 2022
31. Eight Republicans and all nine Democrats caucused together to form the governing coalition.
32. Nineteen Republicans, two Democrats, and two Independents caucused together to form the governing coalition.

See also

• Law and government in Alaska
• Elections in Alaska
• Government of Alaska
• Politics of Alaska

References

1. Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members, 1913-2013
2. Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members, 1913-2013
3. p. 59-62
4. "Steve Haycox: Alaskans know something about legislative upheaval". Anchorage Daily News. 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
5. p. 71-72
6. Zak, Annie; Hanlon, Tegan; DeMarban, Alex (October 16, 2018). "Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott abruptly resigns following "inappropriate comments"". Anchorage Daily News.

External links

• Official website