Rancho Mirage, California is a beautiful city in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County. It is known for its thriving golf and tennis communities, luxurious resorts, and picturesque desert landscape. Although the population of the city is small, only around 18,000 people, its politics remain an important part of everyday life for its citizens. An important factor in Rancho Mirage politics are the three City Council members who are elected to four year terms. The current council members are Iris Smotrich, Ted Weill and Charles Townsend Vella. They have been instrumental in making sure that the city remains a desirable place to live by ensuring financial responsibility and encouraging economic growth. They have also worked hard to keep taxes low while maintaining high-quality public services. Additionally, they ensure that voter participation in local elections is encouraged through voter registration drives and other community outreach programs.
The political climate in Rancho Mirage, CA is leaning conservative.
Riverside County, CA is leaning liberal. In Riverside County, CA 53.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Riverside county remained moderately Democratic, 53.0% to 45.0%.
Riverside county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rancho Mirage, CA is leaning conservative.
Riverside County, California is leaning liberal.
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Rancho Mirage, California: r R 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 Rancho Mirage, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10,134 contributions totaling $987,199 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $97 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,458 contributions totaling $786,993 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $540 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)