2016 Alaska Democratic presidential caucuses

none June 2025 September 2023 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries 2016 Alaska Democratic presidential caucuses Alaska presidential no 2008 Alaska Democratic presidential caucuses 2008 2016 03 26 2020 Alaska Democratic primary 2020 UT HI 0.50 Bernie Sanders September 2015 cropped.jpg Bernie Sanders Vermont 14 8,447 79.6% Shaded Alaska Democratic Presidential Caucuses Election Results by State House District, 2016.svg 300px Results by state house district Sanders: #228B22 60–70% #005D00 70–80% #003F00 80–90% #002F00 >90% #001b00 100% 228B22 Hillary Clinton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Hillary Clinton d4aa00 New York 2,146 20.2% 4 The 2016 Alaska Democratic presidential caucuses were held on March 26 in the U.S. state of Alaska as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, Democratic caucuses were held in Hawaii and in the state of Washington. The Republican Party did not hold any primaries that day; their own Alaska caucuses took place on March 1, 2016. Opinion polling thumb|Five-year-old Courtney Skinner holds up a "Bernie Sanders for President" sign while sitting on Tom Skinner's shoulders at the Juneau Democratic Caucus on Saturday, March 26, 2016, in Centennial Hall's Sheffield Ballroom. Sanders won the majority of Juneau's votes and those across Alaska. (James Brooks photo) Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Results Results of the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Analysis thumb|Kim Metcalfe tallies votes at the Juneau Democratic Caucus on Saturday, March 26, 2016, in Centennial Hall's Sheffield Ballroom as voters hold up their cellphones to capture the results. (James Brooks photo) Alaska gave Sanders his largest win outside of his home state of Vermont. He won 80% of the vote and 82% of the state convention delegates, and carried every borough and census area in the state by landslide margins.https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/alaska Alaska Caucus Election Results The New York Times 2016-08-07 He swept Democratic strongholds - including sparsely populated areas in the Bush - as well as GOP strongholds such as Fairbanks and surrounding Interior Alaska, Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula, and Juneau in the Southeast. A Sanders win in Alaska was expected, since he generally performed well in caucus states, in majority white electorates, and in the Pacific Northwest. Also, Clinton had lost the state eight years before to Barack Obama, and she did not campaign personally in the state (Sanders did not either, but he sent his wife Jane to campaign for him in Anchorage).http://www.adn.com/politics/article/jane-sanders-holding-anchorage-campaign-rally-evening-husband-bernie/2016/03/24/ Jane Sanders holding Anchorage rally Thursday evening for husband Bernie Alaska Dispatch News 2016-08-07 At a rally in Wisconsin on March 26, Sanders told supporters “We knew from day one that politically we were going to have a hard time in the Deep South, but we knew things were going to improve when we headed west.”https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/us/politics/election-results.html Bernie Sanders Seizes 3 States, Sweeping Democratic Contests Chozick Amy 2016-03-26 The New York Times 0362-4331 2016-08-07 References 30em 2016 Democratic primary Alaska Category:March 2016 in the United States