San Anselmo, CA is considered a politically active community in Marin County. It is home to many progressive and conservative political organizations. Every election cycle brings out active participation from residents, with voter registrations often reaching very high levels. The town has two representatives in the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Government (SFBA) and each of them is elected at-large by the citizens of San Anselmo. Local elections are mainly focused on issues related to quality of life, such as public safety, housing affordability, environmental protection and economic development. Residents are also passionate about local issues such as school funding and transportation infrastructure. During election season, many candidates come forward to represent their constituents' interests and discuss the challenges faced by the community head-on.
The political climate in San Anselmo, CA is moderately liberal.
Marin County, CA is very liberal. In Marin County, CA 82.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 15.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 82.3% to 15.8%.
Marin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Anselmo, CA is moderately liberal.
Marin 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.
San Anselmo, 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 San Anselmo, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 23,662 contributions totaling $2,934,808 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,632 contributions totaling $431,877 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $265 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)