Santa Clarita, California is a city with a diverse population and landscape. As of 2019, the city's estimated population was 209,323 people. It is located in Los Angeles County and its economy is driven by entertainment, aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing and many other industries. Santa Clarita is also home to a vibrant political community. The city is represented at the federal level by Rep. Mike Garcia (R) in the 25th Congressional District and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) in the state senate seat representing California's 33rd district. At the local level, Santa Clarita has two mayors that are elected for four-year terms by public vote: Bob Kellar (R) and Laurene Weste (R). These two leaders set the tone for local politics in Santa Clarita as they work together to serve their constituents and make decisions that affect the well-being of all members of their community.
The political climate in Santa Clarita, CA is moderately liberal.
Los Angeles County, CA is very liberal. In Los Angeles County, CA 71.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Los Angeles county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.0% to 26.9%.
Los Angeles county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Santa Clarita, CA is moderately liberal.
Los Angeles County, California is very liberal.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.
Santa Clarita, 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 Santa Clarita, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 15,592 contributions totaling $1,495,010 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4,666 contributions totaling $1,291,743 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $277 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)