Napa County is located in California's North Bay region and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area. The county seat is the city of Napa, which is also the largest city in the area. Politically, Napa County is a deep blue county with a strong Democratic majority. In local elections, Democrats hold all five seats on the Board of Supervisors and have strong majorities on both its County Planning Commission and its Board of Education. On the state level, Democratic candidates usually have an easy time winning in Napa County. With its progressive values and commitment to protecting its environment and natural resources, Napa County has become a model for many other counties across California in terms of progressive governance.
The political climate in Napa County, CA is very liberal.
In Napa County, CA 69.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 28.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Napa county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 69.0% to 28.7%.
Napa county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Napa County, CA is very liberal.
Napa 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.
Napa, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Napa County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 24,086 contributions totaling $2,809,237 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $117 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,303 contributions totaling $530,067 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $230 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)