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The Alaska Republican Party is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party (GOP) in Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage.〔"(Home )." Alaska Republican Party. Retrieved on May 13, 2010.〕 It is the dominant or majority party in Alaska. , Republicans hold both of Alaska's seats in the United States Senate, and the one Alaska seat in the United States House of Representatives, and hold majorities in both houses of the state legislature. Republicans hold two U.S. Senate seats and have held Alaska's At-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 40 years. The Alaska Republican Party has also greatly helped GOP presidential candidates in the state and has transformed the Last Frontier into one of the most staunchly Republican states in the nation. All Republican presidential nominees have won Alaska in recent elections; the last (and only) Democrat to carry Alaska was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.〔http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1964〕 Republican John McCain won Alaska in 2008 with 59.42% of the total statewide vote over Democrat Barack Obama who received 37.89%, a 21.53-percent margin of victory for the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona.〔http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#AKP00〕 ==History== The Alaska Republican Party originates from Alaska's first district governor. Once Alaska was granted the status of United States District civilian leadership could be appointed by the current president of the United States. President Chester A. Arthur appointed Alaska's first territorial governor. He was a Republican named John Henry Kinkead.〔McMullin, Thomas A.; Walker, David (1984). Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing. pp. 3–4. ISBN 0-930466-11-X.〕 Alaska Republicans as a party organization can trace their origin to Alaska's first legislature in 1913.〔http://www.sitnews.net/JuneAllen/Legislature/011803_ak_1st_legislature.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alaska Republican Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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