Kiana leans Democratic by roughly 26 points: about 63% of voters vote Democratic and 37% Republican. These figures are model estimates: Alaska did not have precinct-level voting records available for training, so the numbers above come from demographic and health features rather than local ground truth.
About 58% of adults in Kiana typically vote, near the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Kiana, ~36% vote Democratic, ~21% Republican, and ~43% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.
How Kiana compares
Kiana runs about 38 points more Democratic than Alaska as a whole. Alaska leans Republican overall, while Kiana is one of the few Democratic-leaning pockets.
Why Kiana leans the way it does
This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Kiana, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.
Areas with many never-married adults vote Democratic. About 47% of adults in Kiana have never been married, well above similar-sized cities (around 22%). Kiana runs against the grain of Alaska, a Democratic-leaning pocket in a Republican-leaning state.
Food insecurity and voter turnout
Places with high food insecurity tend to turn out at a lower rate; Kiana, AK sits in the top tenth nationally on this measure. Food insecurity does not directly drive turnout; it reflects economic hardship, which lines up with lower voting.
Why turnout in Kiana looks the way it does
Areas with limited routine healthcare access turn out at lower rates. Kiana is in the bottom quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 37%, about 13 points below the Alaska average of 50%. High food insecurity lines up with lower turnout, and about 42% of adults in Kiana report food insecurity, in the top fraction of cities. High-crime urban areas turn out at lower rates, and Kiana sits in the top 15% on a violent-crime measure. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.
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- Noorvik, AK D+25
- Selawik, AK D+23
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- Ambler, AK D+19
- Buckland, AK D+19
- Noatak, AK D+24
- Shungnak, AK D+19
- Deering, AK D+19
- Kobuk, AK D+19
- Kivalina, AK D+24
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Sources and methodology
Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Alaska Division of Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.
Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. AK did not have precinct-level voting records available for training, so the figures here come from extrapolation across demographic, health, and land-use features rather than local ground truth. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.
Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.