Cotati, CA is a small city in Sonoma County with a population of around 7,000 people. It has an active local politics scene that includes the Cotati City Council and Mayor's Office. The City Council is made up of five elected members who are responsible for regulating local laws and creating policies that meet the needs of the community. The Mayor’s Office works to bring everyone together to ensure all voices, interests, and needs are heard and addressed in a fair and inclusive manner. Local residents have many opportunities to get involved in politics in Cotati such as attending City Council meetings, serving on advisory boards and committees, or voting for local candidates during elections. All of these ways help citizens make their voices heard while promoting civic engagement in the town.
The political climate in Cotati, CA is moderately liberal.
Sonoma County, CA is very liberal. In Sonoma County, CA 74.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 23.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sonoma county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.5% to 23.0%.
Sonoma county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Cotati, CA is moderately liberal.
Sonoma County, California is very liberal.
Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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.
Cotati, 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 Cotati, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,135 contributions totaling $214,165 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $42 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 320 contributions totaling $32,709 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $102 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)