page_title: Juneau, Alaska
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: Juneau, Alaska / Government
caption_attribution_description: Alaska State Capitol, Juneau
context_page_description: The City and Borough of Juneau, commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. Located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle, it is a unified municipality and the second-largest city in the United States by area. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.
  Downtown Juneau is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2019, the population estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 31,974, making it the second-most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage. Juneau experiences a daily influx of roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September.
context_section_description: The City and Borough of Juneau operates under a council–manager form of government.  The mayor is the titular head of the city, is the presiding officer (or chair) of the Juneau Assembly (council), and is one of three members of that body elected at-large, or areawide.  The remaining six members are elected by single-member districts: two districts have been defined by the Assembly, as of its last redistricting in 2003:
  District 1 precincts
  Douglas
  Juneau No. 1
  Juneau No. 2
  Juneau No. 3
  Juneau Airport
  Lemon Creek
  North Douglas
  District 2 precincts
  Auke Bay
  Lynn Canal
  Mendenhall Valley No. 1
  Mendenhall Valley No. 2
  Mendenhall Valley No. 3
  Mendenhall Valley No. 4
   They hire a professional city manager to handle daily affairs.
  These districts are nearly aligned with the boundaries of the 31st and 32nd election districts that were established by the state.  The main difference is that the 32nd District includes communities outside the CBJ: Gustavus, Kupreanof, Petersburg, Skagway and Tenakee Springs.  The Juneau Airport precinct is in the 31st district, which is otherwise identical to the 2nd Assembly District.
  Since Juneau was split into two state house districts by the state during redistricting in the early 1990s, the districts comprising downtown Juneau, Douglas Island and surrounding areas have exclusively elected Democrats to the Alaska House of Representatives, while the districts comprising Mendenhall Valley and surrounding areas have mostly elected Republicans.  The 31st District is represented in the House by Democrat Andi Story, who has been in office since 2018.  The 32nd District is represented by Democrat Sara Hannan.
  Combined, these two election districts form Alaska Senate District Q. That seat is held by Democrat Dennis Egan, a former Juneau mayor who has been in office since 2009. The last Republican to represent Juneau in the state Senate was Elton Engstrom, Jr., the father of Cathy Muñoz. He left office at the end of his term in early 1971, after failing to be re-elected in 1970.
  While there are more state jobs based in Anchorage than in Juneau, the state government still maintains a substantial presence in Juneau.  A number of executive branch departments, as well as the legislature, are based in Juneau.  The legislature, in response to repeated pressure from Southcentral Alaska to move either the capital or the legislature, acquired and renovated several buildings in the vicinity of the Alaska State Capitol, which hold committee meeting rooms and administrative offices for the Legislative Affairs Agency.  These buildings were named for former legislators Terry Miller and Thomas B. Stewart.  Stewart, a Juneau native and son of early Juneau mayor Benjamin D. Stewart, represented Juneau in the Senate during the 1st Alaska State Legislature. He later served in Juneau's Alaska Superior Court judgeship and was noted as an authority on the latter territory/early statehood eras of Alaska's history.
  The federal government has a nine-story federal building in Juneau in the area known as "The Flats". Along Gold Creek near its mouth and a short distance east of the Juneau-Douglas Bridge, the building houses numerous federal agencies, the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, and Juneau's main post office. It was designed by Linn A. Forrest and constructed in 1966. Under the Alaska Statehood Act, the Federal and Territorial Building was transferred to the new state for use as its capitol.
caption: Alaska State Capitol
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