Burlingame, CA is a small city in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has an active political scene, with several local elections held each year to select representatives for the City Council, Mayor, and other civic offices. As of 2021, Burlingame has seven City Council members elected by district, with staggered four-year terms. The Mayor is selected by a majority vote of the City Council and serves a two-year term. All City Council members and the Mayor are responsible for managing municipal affairs such as public safety, infrastructure development and maintenance, education funding, housing policy, economic development initiatives, recreational services, and representing Burlingame’s interests in regional negotiations. Recent political issues in Burlingame have included increasing public access to open space in the Baylands area and establishing funding for public transportation projects.
The political climate in Burlingame, CA is strongly liberal.
San Mateo County, CA is very liberal. In San Mateo County, CA 77.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 20.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Mateo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 77.9% to 20.2%.
San Mateo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Burlingame, CA is strongly liberal.
San Mateo County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley Metro Area is very liberal.
California is strongly liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Burlingame, California: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Burlingame, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 26,292 contributions totaling $14,550,256 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $553 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,894 contributions totaling $3,093,798 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,069 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)