Auburn, CA is the county seat of Placer County and serves as a hub for politics in the region. The city is part of California's 4th Congressional District and is represented in Congress by Tom McClintock. Locally, Auburn is overseen by a five-member City Council which makes decisions that affect the community. Each member of the council is elected at-large every four years and acts as an advocate for their constituents. In addition to the City Council, Auburn also has a Mayor who presides over meetings and serves as an ambassador for the city. The Mayor is elected every two years.
The political climate in Auburn, CA is leaning conservative.
Placer County, CA is leaning conservative. In Placer County, CA 45.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 52.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Placer county remained moderately Republican, 52.1% to 45.5%.
Placer county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Auburn, CA is leaning conservative.
Placer County, California is leaning conservative.
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom Metro Area is moderately 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.
Auburn, California: R R R R R r
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 Auburn, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,095 contributions totaling $321,794 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,048 contributions totaling $260,603 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $249 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)