Naukati Bay, AK is a rural community located on the southeastern end of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The town is known for its fishing and outdoor activities, such as hunting, camping and hiking. Politically, Naukati Bay is part of the City and Borough of Wrangell. Residents are represented by two members on the Assembly, the governing body for Wrangell. Local issues tend to focus on fisheries and resource management, public safety, health services and infrastructure maintenance. Given the sparse population in this mostly rural area, there can be a wide range of opinions expressed in public forums held about local issues that come up for debate before the Assembly meetings.
The political climate in Naukati Bay, AK is leaning conservative.
Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area County, AK is leaning liberal. In Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area County, AK 49.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Prince of Wales-Hyder Borough remained narrowly Democratic, 49.4% to 47.0%.
Prince of Wales-Hyder voted Democratic in 2020. 2016, 2012 and 2000, and Republican in 2008 and 2004.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Naukati Bay, AK is leaning conservative.
Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area County, Alaska is leaning liberal.
Alaska is somewhat conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Naukati Bay, Alaska: D R R d d d
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Naukati Bay, AK
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18 contributions totaling $1,026 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $57 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 14 contributions totaling $3,905 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $279 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)