Fortuna, CA is a small city in Humboldt County known for its beautiful redwood forests and scenic harbor. As the county seat of Humboldt County, Fortuna plays an important role in local politics. The city is governed by a five-member City Council that makes decisions on local laws, regulations, budgets, and other issues related to the daily running of the city. In addition to this, Fortuna also has representation in the State Assembly and Senate through locally elected officials. There is also a large number of local political advocacy groups active in the city, working to promote their respective agendas on behalf of residents across the region. All of these elements come together to ensure that Fortuna remains an engaged and active community with strong political ties at both the municipal and state level.
The political climate in Fortuna, CA is moderately liberal.
Humboldt County, CA is very liberal. In Humboldt County, CA 64.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Humboldt county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.5% to 31.4%.
Humboldt county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Fortuna, CA is moderately liberal.
Humboldt County, California is very liberal.
Eureka-Arcata 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.
Fortuna, 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 Fortuna, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 508 contributions totaling $24,958 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 147 contributions totaling $14,544 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $99 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)