Editing North Pole, Alaska (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Santa Claus protesting US immigration policies.jpg|thumb|[[Santa Claus (Alaskan politician)|Santa Claus]] (his legal name, born Thomas O'Connor) was first elected to North Pole's [[city council]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Buxton|first1=Matt|title=Santa Claus wins seat on North Pole City Council|url=http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/santa-claus-wins-seat-on-north-pole-city-council/article_15c35d6e-7207-11e5-b467-d3aa758d0880.html|access-date=July 7, 2018|work=[[Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]]|date=October 13, 2015}}</ref>  He appears with a group of children who protested [[United States immigration policy]] in downtown [[Fairbanks]] in June 2018.]]
North Pole is the most [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]-leaning area in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. In 2008 House District 11, which comprises the North Pole area, gave [[John McCain]] 7,736 votes (78.4% of the total) to [[Barack Obama]]'s 1,924 (19.5%). In the [[Alaska gubernatorial election, 2010|2010 gubernatorial election]], Republican [[Sean Parnell]] received 5,727 votes (76.8%) to Democrat [[Ethan Berkowitz]]'s 1,451 (19.5%). Republican [[Joe Miller (Alaska politician)|Joe Miller]] received 57.3% of North Pole's vote in his failed bid against incumbent U.S. Senator [[Lisa Murkowski]]'s write-in campaign.