The city of Piedmont, CA is governed by a five-member City Council. Each Council member is elected at large to serve four year terms. The current Mayor is Marga Lee, who was first appointed in 2019 and later elected in 2020. The current Vice Mayor is Bob McBain, who was elected in 2018. The three other Council members are Garrett Keating, Teddy Gray King, and Sarah Cocke. Elections are held every two years for either the Mayor or one of the four at-large Council seats. The City Council meets twice a month to discuss various issues facing the city such as traffic congestion, public safety, and infrastructure maintenance. Local elections have been increasingly competitive over recent years with more people becoming involved and aware of local politics and the different candidates running for office. Piedmont residents have a strong sense of pride and engagement with their local government which creates an atmosphere of cooperation between citizens and their representatives when it comes to making decisions about how best to guide the city’s future.
The political climate in Piedmont, CA is moderately 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
Piedmont, CA is moderately 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.
Piedmont, 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 Piedmont, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 92,592 contributions totaling $12,600,445 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $136 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,649 contributions totaling $1,349,321 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $509 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)