San Andreas, CA is a small town located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Politically, San Andreas has a City Council that is made up of five elected members who represent the various parts of the city. They are responsible for setting policy on local issues such as taxes, zoning laws, public safety and infrastructure. The mayor is an elected position and serves as the leader of the City Council. Additionally, there are two state representatives representing San Andreas at the California State Assembly and one member in Congress representing San Andreas at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C. The town also holds municipal elections every four years to elect their local representatives to these positions. Over the years, politics in San Andreas has been mainly dominated by conservative values with most candidates running on platforms that focus on fiscal responsibility and limited government interference in private matters.
The political climate in San Andreas, CA is somewhat conservative.
Calaveras County, CA is moderately conservative. In Calaveras County, CA 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Calaveras county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 36.8%.
Calaveras county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Andreas, CA is somewhat conservative.
Calaveras County, California is moderately conservative.
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.
San Andreas, California: R R R R R R
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 San Andreas, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 210 contributions totaling $17,262 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 37 contributions totaling $8,646 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $234 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)