San Fernando, California is a small city located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County. It has a population of around 24,000 people. The city has a mayor-council form of government, with the mayor serving as the chief executive officer and the City Council serving as the legislative body. The Mayor and City Council are responsible for providing services to their constituents like public safety, infrastructure maintenance, and economic development. They also set and enforce local laws and regulations, approve budgets, manage finances, and allocate resources to various departments within the city. San Fernando also elects representatives to serve on other regional governmental bodies such as county commissions or school boards. Local political candidates often campaign on issues related to affordable housing, public safety, environmental sustainability, education, business growth, job creation, and other topics that affect residents throughout San Fernando and beyond. Politicians must serve all members of their community regardless of party affiliation or political leanings in order to ensure fair representation for everyone in San Fernando.
The political climate in San Fernando, CA is very 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
San Fernando, CA is very 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.
San Fernando, 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 Fernando, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,520 contributions totaling $147,480 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $59 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 382 contributions totaling $87,349 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $229 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)