Alto, CA is a small residential community located in Northern California. As such, it does not have a local government or political representatives. However, the town's residents are still strongly engaged in state and national politics. In Alto, individuals often rally together around issues they feel passionately about and inform each other on important civic matters. Town meetings are held to discuss current affairs and elections are viewed as a way of expressing the collective voice of the community. Moreover, many locals take part in voting initiatives that help to preserve Alto's heritage and identity in the face of ever-changing political climate. This commitment to civic engagement helps to ensure that Alto remains an active member of California's larger political landscape.
The political climate in Alto, CA is moderately liberal.
Marin County, CA is very liberal. In Marin County, CA 82.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 15.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 82.3% to 15.8%.
Marin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Alto, CA is moderately liberal.
Marin 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.
Alto, 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 Alto, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 26,584 contributions totaling $4,604,811 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $173 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,458 contributions totaling $1,075,080 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $737 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)