Forest Meadows, CA is a small community located in the foothills of Northern California. The town has been growing steadily over the past few years as more and more families move to the area for its picturesque scenery and strong sense of community. Residents of Forest Meadows are passionate about their local politics, supporting their own candidates for local office while keeping an eye on state and federal elections. The citizens understand that it takes a collective effort to maintain a safe and successful community, and so they strive to ensure that their local government leaders represent their interests. As a result, Forest Meadows has recently seen several of its own elected officials become active members in state level politics, advocating on behalf of constituents locally and across the state.
The political climate in Forest Meadows, CA is moderately conservative.
Calaveras County, CA is moderately conservative. In Calaveras County, CA 36.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Calaveras county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.6% to 36.8%.
Calaveras county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Forest Meadows, CA is moderately conservative.
Calaveras County, California is moderately conservative.
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.
Forest Meadows, California: R R R R R R
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 Forest Meadows, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 805 contributions totaling $39,336 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 78 contributions totaling $19,000 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $244 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)