Mountain Ranch, CA is a small town located in Calaveras County. It is a rural community with a population of around 2,500 people. The local political scene consists of the Mayor and five City Council members. All positions are elected by the residents of Mountain Ranch in nonpartisan elections held every two years. The mayor and city council members work together to ensure that the needs and demands of the community are met while also striving to create an efficient and effective governance system for the town. They are responsible for making decisions on everything from creating budgets to developing policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality of life in Mountain Ranch. Through these efforts, they strive to ensure that their constituents’ voices are heard and respected as well as help lead the town into a brighter future.
The political climate in Mountain Ranch, 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
Mountain Ranch, 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.
Mountain Ranch, 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 Mountain Ranch, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,046 contributions totaling $51,982 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 95 contributions totaling $22,806 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $240 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)