Cooper Landing, Alaska is a small town located in the Kenai Peninsula Borough. It is known for its beautiful scenery and rich history of fishing, hunting, and gold mining. Despite its rural location, the politics of Cooper Landing are highly contested and important to many of the communities’ residents. During election years, locals debate over local issues such as budgeting for public projects, taxes on goods and services, and improvements to infrastructure. Voters are engaged in these debates and have a say in who they elect to lead their town government. Candidates must prove their competency on issues that matter to residents and be able to make decisions that benefit the town as a whole. Political campaigns usually consist of forums or events where community members can ask questions directly to the candidates.
The political climate in Zip 99572 (Cooper Landing, AK) is strongly conservative.
Kenai Peninsula Borough County, AK is very conservative. In Kenai Peninsula Borough County, AK 31.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 64.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kenai Peninsula Borough remained overwhelmingly Republican, 64.5% to 31.8%.
Kenai Peninsula county voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Democratic in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 99572 (Cooper Landing, AK) is strongly conservative.
Cooper Landing, Alaska is strongly conservative.
Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska is very conservative.
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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.
Cooper Landing, Alaska: D R r R R R
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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 zip 99572 (Cooper Landing)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 59 contributions totaling $4,666 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 10 contributions totaling $2,196 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $220 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)