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{{Infobox political party
| colorcode        = {{party color|Alaskan Independence Party}}
| name             = Alaskan Independence Party
| logo             = Alaskan Independence Party logo.jpg
| chairperson      = John Wayne Howe
| founder          = [[Joe Vogler]]
| foundation       = {{Start date|1973}} (as Alaskans for Independence)<br>{{Start date and age|1984|06|14}}<ref name="AKIPhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.akip.org/history.html|title=Alaskan Independence Party History|year=2006|work=Alaskan Independence Party|publisher=Web Alaska|access-date=November 29, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101106073845/http://www.akip.org/history.html| archive-date= 6 November 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
| ideology         = [[Alaska|Alaskan]] [[nationalism]]<br />{{nowrap|[[Libertarian conservatism]]}} <br> [[Social conservatism]]
| membership_year  = 2023
| membership       = {{gain}}18,882<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/doc/info/statsPPA.php|title=Alaska Division of Elections|website=www.elections.alaska.gov}}</ref>
| international    = 
| colors           = {{Color box|#000099|border=darkgray}} [[Blue]]<br>
{{Color box|#FFD700|border=darkgray}} [[Gold (color)|Gold]]
| seats1_title     = [[Government of Alaska#Executive|Statewide Executive Offices]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex={{party color|Alaskan Independence Party}}}}
| seats2_title     = Seats in the [[Alaska Senate|Senate]]
| seats2           = {{composition bar|0|20|hex={{party color|Alaskan Independence Party}}}}
| seats3_title     = Seats in the [[Alaska House of Representatives|House]]
| seats3           = {{composition bar|0|40|hex={{party color|Alaskan Independence Party}}}}
| seats4_title     = Seats in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]
| seats4           = {{Composition bar|0|2|hex={{party color|Alaskan Independence Party}}}}
| seats5_title     = Seats in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]]
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| website          = {{url|https://alaskanindependence.party}}
| country          = Alaska
}}

The '''Alaskan Independence Party''' ('''AIP''') is an [[Alaska|Alaskan]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] [[political party]] in the [[United States]] that advocates for an in-state [[referendum]] which would include the option of Alaska becoming an independent country. The party also supports [[Gun politics in the United States|gun rights]], [[direct democracy]], [[privatization]], abolishing [[Federal lands|federal land]] ownership, and [[limited government]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.akip.org/issues.html#2|title=Alaskan Independence Party – Issues|work=Alaskan Independence Party}}</ref> 

[[Wally Hickel]] was elected as the [[List of governors of Alaska|Governor of Alaska]] in [[1990 Alaska gubernatorial election|1990]] under the Independence Party, making it one of the few [[Third party (U.S. politics)|third parties]] to have controlled a governor's seat; however, Hickel transferred to the Republican Party before the [[1994 Alaska gubernatorial election|1994 election]].

==History==
===Founding and early history===
In early 1973, Vogler founded '''Alaskans for Independence (AFI)''', originally to label a petition drive.<ref name="VanCleve">{{Cite web |last=Van Cleve |first=Margaret |date=1991 |title= Margaret Van Cleve Interviews Joe Vogler 1991 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjb-cf67KHI|access-date=2024-01-27 |website=[[University of Alaska Fairbanks]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Vogler wrote to local Alaskan newspapers and argued against the Alaskan statehood vote. In 1973, Vogler began circulating a petition seeking support for [[secession]] of Alaska from the United States. The [[Alaska (magazine)|''Alaska'' magazine]] published a piece at that time in which Vogler claimed to have gathered 25,000 signatures in three weeks.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

In 1978, Vogler merged the AFI into the '''Alaskan Independence Party''' (AIP), a political party.<ref name="VanCleve" />

During the first decade of its existence, the Party was used exclusively by Vogler for his first two campaigns for governor and campaign for lieutenant governor. Vogler would serve as the AIP's standard-bearer for most of the party's first two decades.<ref>{{cite book |title=Election Candidate Pamphlet|year=1974|publisher=Alaska Division of Elections|location=[[Juneau]]|quote=(This is the first official reference to the party. The pamphlet contained, amongst other information on Alaska elections in 1974, a party platform and biographical profiles of candidates for governor and lieutenant governor [[Joe Vogler]] and Wayne Peppler.)}}</ref> The party has maintained its recognized status since, first by maintaining thresholds in gubernatorial elections, then through same with voter registration.<ref name="AKIPhistory" /> 

Vogler, who founded the AIP, described himself as a "separatist", but the AIP's platform does not explicitly call for secession. Referring to Alaska's 1959 [[History of Alaska#Statehood|admission to the union]], the AIP's charter states that "The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four choices:
# Remain a [[Territories of the United States|territory]].
# Become a separate and independent [[country]].
# Accept [[Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|commonwealth]] status.
# Become a [[U.S. state|state]].

Members of the AIP, including Vogler, alleged that the 1958 referendum on Alaskan statehood was rigged by the federal government.<ref name="SeattleTimes">{{Cite web |last=Williams|first=Marla |date=1993 |title= Missing Myth -- Alaska Buzzes With Theories On Maverick's Fate|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930805&slug=1714552|access-date=2024-01-27 |website=[[The Seattle Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref> 

On multiple occasions, Vogler called for violence against the federal government. For instance, Vogler once said, "God, I hate those sons of bitches. If I ever get a revolution going, I'm going to import a bunch of guillotines and lop off their lying heads."<ref name="SeattleTimes" /> In a 1991 interview, Vogler said "And you say the hell with [government]. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska."<ref name="VanCleve" /> While the Chair of the AIP Vogler had a dispute with the Bureau of Land Management, resulting in a stand-off with BLM officers and a lawsuit against Vogler by the BLM.<ref name="SeattleTimes" />

Vogler's running mate in 1986 was Al Rowe, a Fairbanks resident and former [[Alaska State Troopers|Alaska State Trooper]]. Rowe took out a series of newspaper ads, fashioning himself in the image of [[Sheriff Buford Pusser]]. These ads were a major attention getter during the race.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} Between Rowe's ads and the turmoil existing in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] over the nomination of [[Arliss Sturgulewski]], the AIP gained 5.2 percent of the vote, becoming a recognized party in Alaska for the first time.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

===Late 20th-century===

In [[1990 Alaska gubernatorial election|1990]], former Republican governor [[Walter Joseph Hickel]] won the election for [[List of Governors of Alaska|governor]] as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, with Jack Coghill as his [[Lieutenant Governor of Alaska|running mate]]. This was the first time since Alaska joined the union that a third-party candidate has been elected governor, until the election of [[Jesse Ventura]] in Minnesota in [[1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election|1998]], and then [[Bill Walker (U.S. politician)|Bill Walker]] in Alaska in [[2014 Alaska gubernatorial election|2014]]. Hickel refused a vote on secession called on by a fringe group within the AIP loyal to Vogler's original vision. He rejoined the Republican Party in 1994, with eight months remaining in his term.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

[[Carl E. Moses]], a businessman from [[Unalaska, Alaska|Unalaska]] who had served in the [[Alaska House of Representatives]] from 1965 to 1973 as both a Republican and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], was elected again to the House in 1992, running under the AIP banner. He was elected to a district comprising mostly the area between the [[Aleutian Islands]] and [[Bristol Bay]]. He switched his party affiliation back to Democrat at around the same time that Hickel switched, and continued to serve in the House until 2007.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

The party did not get involved in presidential elections until [[1992 United States presidential election|1992]], when it endorsed [[Howard Phillips (activist)|Howard Phillips]], the candidate of the [[U.S. Taxpayers Party]] (now the [[Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]]).{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

===Post-Vogler===
Mark Chryson, the former Chair of the AIP, in 2008 said that "the Confederate states [should] have been allowed to separate and go their peaceful ways...The War of Northern Aggression, or the Civil War, or the War Between the States -- however you want to refer to it -- was not about slavery, it was about states' rights."<ref name="Salon">{{Cite web |last=Neiwert|first=David |date=2008 |title=Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals|url=https://www.salon.com/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/|access-date=2024-01-27 |website=[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

The chairmanship of the AIP came to Lynette Clark about 2004. Also joining around 2001 was prolife activist and conservative public school teacher Bob Bird, who was a Pat Buchanan delegate at the 1996 GOP convention. Bird had run against Ted Stevens in the 1990 primary, when he first met Vogler. Bird's strong showing against Stevens, coupled with his friendship with one of statehood founders Jack Coghill, encouraged Hickel and Coghill to join the AIP.

Bird assumed the role of Acting Chairman until he was confirmed at a Wasilla convention that fall, and continued as chairman at the Kenai convention in 2022.

The Alaskan Independence Party sued the state of Alaska in 2020, seeking to overturn the results from a [[2020 Alaska Measure 2|referendum]] where [[Ranked-choice voting in the United States|ranked-choice voting]] was implemented in Alaska's general elections.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-02|title=Lawsuit challenges Alaska's new ranked-choice voting ballot measure|url=https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/12/01/lawsuit-challenges-alaskas-new-ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measure/|access-date=2021-01-11|website=Anchorage Daily News|language=en-US}}</ref>

The AIP has embraced a "traditional family" message in the 21st-century.<ref name="Salon" /> Chryson said the AIP is "for the traditional family -- daddy, mommy, kids."<ref name="Salon" /> The party opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage.<ref name="Salon" />

====2006 ballot initiative====
In 2006, members of the AIP collected the one hundred signatures needed to place on the fall ballot an initiative calling for Alaska to secede from the union or, if that was found not to be legally possible, directing the state to work to make secession legal. However, in the case of ''Kohlhaas v. State''<ref>Kohlhaas v. State (11/17/2006) sp-6072, 147 P3d 714</ref> the Alaska State Supreme Court ruled any attempt at secession to be unconstitutional and the initiative was not approved to appear on the fall ballot.<ref>[http://touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-6072.htm Kohlhaas v. State (11/17/2006)], touchngo.com, retrieved October 11, 2008</ref>

==Registered members==
In May 2009, the party had 13,119 registered members. As of May 2021, a press release on the AIP website indicates that the number of 
registered members has grown to nearly 19,000, making it the state's third largest party and about a quarter the size of the state's Democratic party (Republicans had 124,892 members and the Democrats had 75,047).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.alaska.gov/statistics/regbyprty5-3-09.html |title=Alaska Voter Registration by Party/Precinct |access-date=May 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515002315/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/statistics/regbyprty5-3-09.html |archive-date=May 15, 2009 }}</ref>

On September 2, 2008, the Alaska Division of Elections had records that [[Todd Palin]], husband of Governor [[Sarah Palin]] (a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and vice-presidential candidate), had registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995. He remained registered with the party until 2002.<ref name=nyt-apalin>{{cite news |first=Kate|last=Zernike|title=A Palin Joined Alaskan Third Party, Just Not Sarah Palin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04party.html?ref=politics|date=2008-09-03|access-date=2010-09-09|newspaper=New York Times}}</ref> David Niewert and [[Max Blumenthal]] wrote in ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' about the third party's influence in gaining election of Sarah Palin as mayor of [[Wasilla, Alaska|Wasilla]] in her first political office.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/|title=Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals|last1=Neiwert|first1=David|date=July 17, 2008|work=Salon|access-date=March 9, 2018|last2=Blumenthal|first2=Max}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==
=== Presidential elections ===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! colspan="9" | Alaskan Independence Party Presidential Tickets
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! Nominee
! Running Mate
! # Votes
! % Votes
! Place
! Notes
|-
|[[1992 United States presidential election in Alaska|1992]]
|[[Howard Phillips (activist)|Howard Phillips]]
|[[Albion W. Knight Jr.|Albion Knight]]
|377
|{{Composition bar|0.2|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|8th
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/92GENR/92genr.pdf |title=State of Alaska Official Returns : November 3, 1992 General Election |website=Elections.alaska.gov |access-date=2016-04-02 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050954/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/92GENR/92genr.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|[[2004 United States presidential election in Alaska|2004]]
|[[Michael Peroutka]]
|[[Chuck Baldwin]]
|2,092
|{{Composition bar|0.7|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|4th
|
|-
|[[2008 United States presidential election in Alaska|2008]]
|[[Chuck Baldwin]]
|Darrell Castle
|1,660
|{{Composition bar|0.5|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|4th
|
|}

=== U.S. Senate elections ===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! colspan="8" | Alaskan Independence Party U.S. Senate Nominees
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! Nominee
! # Votes
! % Votes
! Place
! Notes
|-
| [[2002 United States Senate election in Alaska|2002]]
| Jim Dore
| 6,724
| {{Composition bar|2.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 4th
| <ref>{{cite web |last=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 2002 |url=https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2002election.pdf |publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]] |page=2}}</ref>
|-
| [[2004 United States Senate election in Alaska|2004]]
| Jerry Sanders
| 3,785
| {{Composition bar|1.2|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 4th
| <ref>{{cite web |last=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 2004 |url=https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2004election.pdf |publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]] }}</ref>
|-
| [[2008 United States Senate election in Alaska|2008]]
| [[Bob Bird (politician)|Bob Bird]]
| 13,197
| {{Composition bar|4.2|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 3rd
| <ref>{{cite web |last=Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives |author-link=Clerk of the United States House of Representatives |title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 2008 |url=https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2008election.pdf |publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]] |page=2}}</ref>
|-
| [[2020 United States Senate election in Alaska|2020]]
| John Wayne Howe
| 16,806
| {{Composition bar|4.7|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 3rd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2020 General Election – Summary Report – Official Results |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/20GENR/data/sovc/ElectionSummaryReportRPT24.pdf |website=Alaska Division of Elections |access-date=December 2, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[2022 United States Senate election in Alaska|2022 (primary)]]
| Joe Stephens
| 799
| {{Composition bar|0.4|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 11th
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/elections/results-alaska.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-elections-2022&region=TOP_BANNER&context=election_recirc|title=Alaska Primary Election Results|newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 August 2022 |access-date=2 September 2022}}</ref>
|-
| Dustin Darden
| 646
| {{Composition bar|0.3|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 13th
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/elections/results-alaska.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-elections-2022&region=TOP_BANNER&context=election_recirc|title=Alaska Primary Election Results|newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 August 2022 |access-date=2 September 2022}}</ref>
|}

=== U.S. House elections ===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! colspan="8" | Alaskan Independence Party U.S. House Nominees
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! Nominee
! # Votes
! % Votes
! Place
! Notes
|-
| [[1992 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|1992]]
| Michael States
| 15,049
| {{Composition bar|6.3|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 3rd
| <ref>{{cite web | title=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives | website=Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives | date=2015-01-06 | url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1992/1992Stat.htm#2 | access-date=2021-03-28}}</ref>
|-
| [[1996 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|1996]]
| William Nemec II
| 5,017
| {{Composition bar|2.2|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 3rd
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996/1996Stat.htm#2 |title=Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives - 404 |access-date=2014-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610232742/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996/1996Stat.htm#2 |archive-date=2011-06-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[2000 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|2000]]
| Jim Dore
| 10,085
| {{Composition bar|3.7|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 4th
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2000/2000Stat.htm#2 |title=2000 Election Statistics |publisher=Clerk.house.gov |access-date=2013-09-07}}</ref>
|-
| [[2008 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|2008]]
| [[Don Wright (politician)|Don Wright]]
| 14,274
| {{Composition bar|4.5|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 3rd
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.alaska.gov/08general/data/results.pdf |title=Official General Election Results |date=2008-12-03 |access-date=2008-12-03 |publisher=State of Alaska: Division of Elections |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127052929/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/08general/data/results.pdf |archive-date=November 27, 2008 }}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election|2022 (special) (primary)]]
| John Wayne Howe
| 380
| {{Composition bar|0.2|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 16th
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2022 SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS |work=Alaska Division of Elections |date=June 24, 2022 |access-date=June 25, 2022 |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22SPECPRIM/ElectionSummaryReportRPT.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625230208/https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22SPECPRIM/ElectionSummaryReportRPT.pdf |archive-date=June 25, 2022}}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|2024 (primary)]]
|John Wayne Howe
|621
|{{Composition bar|0.6|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|5th
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2024 PRIMARY ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS |work=Alaska Division of Elections |date=August 20, 2024 |access-date=November 21, 2024 |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/24PRIM/ElectionSummaryReport.pdf }}</ref>
|-
|[[2024 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska|2024 (general)]]
|John Wayne Howe
|13,010
|{{Composition bar|3.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|3rd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2024 GENERAL ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS |work=Alaska Division of Elections |date=November 30, 2024 |access-date=December 1, 2024 |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/24GENR/ElectionSummaryReport.pdf }}</ref>
|}

=== Gubernatorial elections ===
[[File:Hickel.gif|thumb|right|200px|Governor [[Wally Hickel]], the only AIP candidate to win a statewide election.]]
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! colspan="9" | Alaskan Independence Party Gubernatorial Tickets
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! Nominee
! Running Mate
! # Votes
! % Votes
! Place
! Notes
|-
|[[1974 Alaska gubernatorial election|1974]]
|[[Joe Vogler]]
|Wayne Peppler
|4,770
|{{Composition bar|5.0|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|3rd
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=108447|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 05, 1974|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[1978 Alaska gubernatorial election|1978]]
|[[Don Wright (politician)|Don Wright]]
|[[Joe Vogler]]
|2,463
|{{Composition bar|1.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|5th
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36905|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 07, 1978|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[1982 Alaska gubernatorial election|1982]]
|[[Joe Vogler]]
|Roger Dee Roberts
|3,235
|{{Composition bar|1.7|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|4th
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36904|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 02, 1982|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[1986 Alaska gubernatorial election|1986]]
|[[Joe Vogler]]
|Al Rowe
|10,013
|{{Composition bar|5.6|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|3rd
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36903|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 04, 1986|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-{{party shading/Alaskan Independence}}
|[[1990 Alaska gubernatorial election|1990]]
|[[Wally Hickel]]
|[[Jack Coghill]]
|75,721
|{{Composition bar|38.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|1st
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=24135|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 06, 1990|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[1994 Alaska gubernatorial election|1994]]
|[[Jack Coghill]]
|Margaret Ward
|27,838
|{{Composition bar|13.0|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|3rd
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=24134|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 08, 1994|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[1998 Alaska gubernatorial election|1998]]
|Sylvia Sullivan
|None
|4,238
|{{Composition bar|1.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|6th
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=204|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 03, 1998|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[2002 Alaska gubernatorial election|2002]]
|[[Don Wright (politician)|Don Wright]]
|Daniel DeNardo
|2,185
|{{Composition bar|0.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|4th
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=28|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 05, 2002|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 Alaska gubernatorial election|2006]]
|[[Don Wright (politician)|Don Wright]]
|Doug Welton
|1,285
|{{Composition bar|0.5|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|4th
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=7041|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 07, 2006|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
|[[2010 Alaska gubernatorial election|2010]]
|[[Don Wright (politician)|Don Wright]]
|None
|4,775
|{{Composition bar|1.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|3rd
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=370483|title=Our Campaigns – AK Governor Race – Nov 02, 2010|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Alaska gubernatorial election|2022 (primary)]]
| John Wayne Howe
| Shellie Wyatt
| 1,696
| {{Composition bar|0.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 6th
|<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/16/us/elections/results-alaska.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-elections-2022&region=TOP_BANNER&context=election_recirc|title=Alaska Primary Election Results|newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 August 2022 |access-date=2 September 2022}}</ref>
|}

===State legislative===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! colspan="9" | Alaskan Independence Party State Legislative Tickets
|- style="background:lightgrey;"
! Year
! District
! Nominee
! # Votes
! % Votes
! Place
! Notes
|-
| [[1988 Alaska House of Representatives election|1988]]
| HD 24
| Ernest Holmberg 
| 1,393 
|{{Composition bar|44.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 2nd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=STATE OF ALASKA – OFFICIAL RETURNS – NOVEMBER 8, 1988 GENERAL ELECTION |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/Core/Archive/88GENR/88genr.pdf |access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[1992 Alaska Senate election|1992]]
| SD T
| William Kristovich 
| 3,467 
|{{Composition bar|45.5|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 2nd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=STATE OF ALASKA – OFFICIAL RETURNS – NOVEMBER 3, 1992 GENERAL ELECTION |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/Core/Archive/92GENR/92genr.pdf |access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref>
|-{{party shading/Alaskan Independence}}
| [[1992 Alaska House of Representatives election|1992]]
| HD 40
| [[Carl E. Moses]]
| 1,829 
|{{Composition bar|53.1|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 1st
| <ref>{{cite web |title=STATE OF ALASKA – OFFICIAL RETURNS – NOVEMBER 3, 1992 GENERAL ELECTION |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/Core/Archive/92GENR/92genr.pdf |access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[2004 Alaska House of Representatives election|2004]]
| HD 17
| Nick Begich Jr.
| 2,965 
|{{Composition bar|35.9|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
| 2nd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2004 GENERAL ELECTION |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/04GENR/data/results.pdf |website=Alaska Elections |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[2022 Alaska House of Representatives election|2022]]
| HD 39
| Tyler L. Ivanoff 
| 1,766 
|{{Composition bar|48.4|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|2nd
|<ref>{{cite web |title=State of Alaska 2022 GENERAL ELECTION Election Summary Report November 8, 2022 OFFICIAL RESULTS |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/22GENR/ElectionSummaryReportRPT.pdf |website=Alaska Elections |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
|-
| [[2024 Alaska House of Representatives election|2024]]
| HD 39
| Tyler L. Ivanoff 
| 1,670 
|{{Composition bar|41.6|100|hex=#FFC14E}}
|2nd
| <ref>{{cite web |title=2024 GENERAL ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS |work=Alaska Division of Elections |date=November 30, 2024 |access-date=December 1, 2024 |url=https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/24GENR/ElectionSummaryReport.pdf }}</ref>
|}
For other AKIP candidates who earned more than 5.0% of the vote in state legislative races, see [[List of third-party and independent performances in Alaska state legislative elections]].

==Notable party officials==
[[File:Fairbanks13.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Dexter Clark, shown in May 2002 demonstrating [[gold panning]] to tourists at the [[El Dorado Gold Mine]], is a former chairman of the AIP.]]
Notable past party officials include:
* [[Bob Bird (politician)|Bob Bird]], Chairman from 2020 to 2024
* [[Todd Palin]], ex-husband of [[Sarah Palin]] (was a member for seven years, later switched to Republican Party)
* [[Edgar Paul Boyko]], Attorney General for the State of Alaska
* [[Jack Coghill]], former [[Lieutenant Governor of Alaska]]
* [[Joe Vogler]], founder of the Alaskan Independence Party
* [[Wally Hickel]], governor 1966–1969 as a [[Alaska Republican Party|Republican]] and 1990–1994 as AKIP, the only successful Alaskan Independence gubernatorial candidate to date.

==See also==
* [[Secession in the United States]]
* [[List of political parties in the United States]]
* [[Political party strength in Alaska]]
* [[Puerto Rican Independence Party]]
* [[Republic of Texas (group)]]
* [[Free State Project]]
* [[Hawaiian sovereignty movement]]
* [[Second Vermont Republic]]
* [[Proposals for new Canadian provinces and territories]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.akip.org Official website]

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