Bear Valley Springs, CA is a small town nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The town has a unique political landscape, as its residents are passionate and opinionated about their beliefs. Most local politics revolves around issues like land use, taxation, public safety, and infrastructure development. Residents are actively engaged in debates about these topics at city council meetings and other public forums. Candidates for local offices must have an understanding of the community’s needs in order to be successful. With a range of backgrounds and expertise among its citizens, Bear Valley Springs often produces interesting candidates who come from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. While there is usually healthy competition between candidates for office, most of the voters in Bear Valley Springs are united by their shared desire to make their community better and ensure its sustainability for generations to come.
The political climate in Bear Valley Springs, CA is somewhat conservative.
Kern County, CA is somewhat conservative. In Kern County, CA 43.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kern county remained strongly Republican, 53.9% to 43.7%.
Kern county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bear Valley Springs, CA is somewhat conservative.
Kern County, California is somewhat conservative.
Bakersfield Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
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.
Bear Valley Springs, 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 Bear Valley Springs, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,056 contributions totaling $93,782 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $89 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 573 contributions totaling $99,703 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $174 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)