The 2024 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 5, 2024, as part of the broader 2024 United States presidential election. Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to secure Alaska's three votes in the Electoral College. This was the first presidential election following the state's adoption of ranked-choice voting for all statewide general elections, though a second round was not triggered because Trump secured a majority of the vote outright.
Analysts widely viewed Trump as the favorite to carry Alaska – which has not backed a Democrat for president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 – in the lead-up to Election Day. Trump ultimately won the state by 13 points, a three-point improvement over his margin of victory in 2020. He flipped three county-equivalents from the prior election in the process: Lake and Peninsula and Northwest Arctic boroughs, as well as Dillingham Census Area.
Primary elections
Republican caucus
The Alaska Republican caucuses were held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
Democratic caucus
The Alaska Democratic caucus was held on April 13, 2024. Joe Biden was the only person on the ballot and won the caucus via voice vote with 15 pledged delegates.
General election
Candidates
The following candidates qualified for the general election:
- Kamala Harris / Tim Walz — Democratic
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Nicole Shanahan — Independent
- Chase Oliver / Mike ter Maat — Libertarian
- Peter Sonski / Lauren Onak — American Solidarity Party
- Jill Stein / Butch Ware — Independent (national Green nominee)
- Randall Terry / Stephen Broden — Constitution
- Donald Trump / JD Vance — Republican
- Cornel West / Melina Abdullah — Aurora
Voters did not have the option to write in candidates for president and vice president. This was the first presidential election in Alaska to use ranked choice (instant runoff) voting.
Independent candidate Cornel West appeared on the ballot as the nominee of the Aurora Party, a party that only exists in Alaska and only has ballot access for presidential elections.
Polling
Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris
Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Electoral slates
The following individuals were nominated as presidential electors:
Results
By State House district
Unlike every other U.S. state, Alaska is not divided into counties or parishes. Rather, it is administratively divided into 20 boroughs: 19 organized and 1 unorganized, which act as county equivalents. The Unorganized Borough lacks a borough government structure and itself is divided into eleven census areas. Contrary to election results in most states, official results by borough are not available – rather, they are estimates based on precinct-level data. However, the Alaska Division of Elections does release official results by State House district, which are listed in the table below. Trump won 24 districts to Harris's 16.
By borough and census area (estimates)
Boroughs and census areas that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Dillingham Census Area (largest city: Dillingham)
- Lake and Peninsula Borough (largest city: Port Alsworth)
- Northwest Arctic Borough (largest city: Kotzebue)
By congressional district
Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district, an at-large district because it covers the entire state, is thus equivalent to the statewide election results.
Analysis
Since Alaska started voting in presidential elections in 1960, the only time its electoral votes have not gone to the Republican nominee was when incumbent Democrat Lyndon Johnson won in a landslide in 1964. Alaska is the only Republican-leaning state on the West Coast of the United States. In 2024 Donald Trump carried Alaska by 13 percentage points, similar to Mitt Romney's 14-point margin in 2012.
Compared to his 2020 electoral performance, in which he carried the state by 10 percentage points, Trump improved in virtually all of the state, particularly areas in the north and west with large Alaska Native populations. Harris managed to narrowly retain Anchorage for the Democrats; Trump became the first Republican to win the White House without winning the city since Alaskan statehood. Key to Trump's victory in the state was landslide margins to his favor in the Kenai Peninsula and Matanuska-Susitna Valley. He even managed to obtain over 80% of the vote in the sparsely populated Southeast Fairbanks Census Area. Harris's best area was Juneau, the state capital. This was the first election since 2008 in which Republicans carried a majority of boroughs and census areas.