Carmichael, CA is located in Sacramento County and is known as a small suburb of the larger city. It is governed by the City Council which consists of five members elected by local residents. The Mayor of Carmichael, currently John D. Smith, is directly elected by citizens every two years. Political issues in Carmichael typically involve budgeting for public services like parks, police, fire departments and infrastructure upgrades. Recently there have been debates over increasing public safety measures and providing more resources to schools in the area. Community meetings are held to discuss these challenges and decisions representing different interests are made. It is clear that politics plays an important role in the life of Carmichael's citizens as they strive to make their city an even better place to live.
The political climate in Carmichael, CA is somewhat liberal.
Sacramento County, CA is strongly liberal. In Sacramento County, CA 61.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sacramento county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.4% to 36.1%.
Sacramento county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Carmichael, CA is somewhat liberal.
Sacramento County, California is strongly liberal.
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom Metro Area is moderately 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.
Carmichael, 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 Carmichael, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 21,095 contributions totaling $1,700,636 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,874 contributions totaling $613,856 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $214 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)