La Quinta, CA, zip code 92253 is located within Riverside County, and is part of the 38th district in California. It is represented by Assemblymember Chad Mayes and Senator Jeff Stone in the California Legislature. The City of La Quinta operates under a Council-Manager form of government which consists of five city council members who are elected at large by all registered voters residing within the city limits. All five council members serve four year terms and each member serves as a representative for one of five districts that make up La Quinta. Government decisions are made by the City Council, with guidance from professional staff including the City Manager, who administers day to day operations. Local politics in La Quinta are focused on providing excellent municipal services while remaining fiscally conservative and progressive in terms of development projects and investments that will benefit the citizens of this community.
The political climate in Zip 92253 (La Quinta, CA) is leaning liberal.
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
Zip 92253 (La Quinta, CA) is leaning liberal.
La Quinta, California is leaning liberal.
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.
La Quinta, 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 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 zip 92253 (La Quinta)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,254 contributions totaling $225,059 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $100 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,282 contributions totaling $411,217 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $321 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)