Babcock has served as precinct officer and district chairman of Alaska's GOP (AKGOP). He also was state vice chairman and also briefly served as the party's chairman in the year 2000. In 2016, he again ran for this office. During the Alaska Republican Party convention in Fairbanks April 28–30, 2016, Babcock ran against Fairbanks trial attorney Ann Brown to succeed Peter Goldberg. Babcock won the election and also became a delegate for the National Republican Convention in Cleveland in the summer of 2016.