Daly City, California is a city in San Mateo County. It is located 13 miles south of San Francisco and has a population of over 100,000 people. The city has an active political scene with many elected officials representing the citizens at all levels of government. At the local level, Daly City's mayor is Ray Buenaventura and the City Council consists of seven members. On the county level, representatives from Daly City serve on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and Board of Education. At the state level, Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblymember Phil Ting represent Daly City in Sacramento. Federally, Nancy Pelosi serves as its U.S. Representative in Congress and Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein are its two United States Senators from California. In addition to these well-known politicians, there are numerous smaller offices filled by local candidates that support Daly City’s residents and businesses through their work on issues such as transportation, public safety, housing, economic development, and more.
The political climate in Daly City, CA is strongly liberal.
San Mateo County, CA is very liberal. In San Mateo County, CA 77.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 20.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Mateo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 77.9% to 20.2%.
San Mateo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Daly City, CA is strongly liberal.
San Mateo County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 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.
Daly City, 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 Daly City, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 5,352 contributions totaling $608,695 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $114 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 274 contributions totaling $29,367 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $107 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)