Kelly Ridge, CA is a small town located in Butte County, California. It is a rural area with roughly 2,000 residents. Since it is a small community, the local politics are not as prominent as in larger towns and cities. The majority of the political decisions are made at the state and county level, but the citizens still have an opportunity to make their voices heard on important issues. Local elections tend to be focused on school boards and other municipal matters such as public safety or infrastructure. Residents of Kelly Ridge usually have access to information on who is up for election and what their platform consists of. This allows individuals to make informed decisions when voting for their representatives in local politics.
The political climate in Kelly Ridge, CA is leaning conservative.
Butte County, CA is leaning liberal. In Butte County, CA 49.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 47.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Butte county flipped narrowly Democratic, 49.5% to 47.6%.
Butte county flipped Democratic in 2020, after voting Republican in four of the last six Presidential elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Kelly Ridge, CA is leaning conservative.
Butte County, California is leaning liberal.
Chico Metro Area is leaning 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.
Kelly Ridge, California: R r d r r 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 Kelly Ridge, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 661 contributions totaling $43,216 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $65 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 771 contributions totaling $61,784 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)