Union City, CA is a vibrant and bustling city in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the home to an active and engaged community focused on local politics and government. Union City has a council-manager form of government, with an elected Mayor and four Council Members that serve four year terms. The City Council is responsible for setting policy, adopting ordinances, approving budgets, and appointing members of various commissions. Additionally, there are several other boards and committees that provide citizens the opportunity to have their voices heard on important issues facing the city. Through this system, Union City residents have considerable influence over how their city operates. The engaged citizens of Union City make sure to stay informed about the political candidates running for local positions each election cycle so that they can ensure their voices are heard.
The political climate in Union City, CA is strongly liberal.
Alameda County, CA is very liberal. In Alameda County, CA 79.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 17.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Alameda county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 79.8% to 17.6%.
Alameda county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Union City, CA is strongly liberal.
Alameda 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.
Union City, 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 Union City, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 11,318 contributions totaling $827,050 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,071 contributions totaling $140,988 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $132 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)