If Juneau had its way, Hillary Clinton would be president.
It doesn’t, and she won’t.
According to the Alaska Division of Election, turnout in this year’s general election reached almost 61 percent, the highest figure since 2008 but 5 percent lower than Alaska’s average in presidential elections since 1976.
Statewide, more than 51 percent of voters picked Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Not in Juneau.
In the capital city, not a single voting precinct mustered a majority for Trump, though if you remove votes for Libertarian Gary Johnson, every precinct in the Mendenhall Valley posted more votes for Trump than Clinton.
In downtown Juneau, Douglas, Auke Bay and Out the Road, the trend was reversed, sometimes spectacularly so. In the Juneau Flats and Starr Hill, just 15 percent of voters picked Trump. That was one of the lowest proportions of any precinct in Alaska.
