Gold River, CA is a small suburban city located in Northern California. Though the city does not have a large population of around 8,000 people, it still has an active political environment. The city council consists of five members who are elected to four year terms. Every two years, the mayor and two council members are up for re-election, with elections taking place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. From time to time, other local political candidates may also run for election as well. When this happens, Gold River residents can expect to see a variety of campaigns that focus on improving the city's infrastructure and quality of life for its citizens.
The political climate in Gold River, CA is somewhat liberal.
Sacramento County, CA is strongly liberal. In Sacramento County, CA 61.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sacramento county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 61.4% to 36.1%.
Sacramento county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Gold River, CA is somewhat liberal.
Sacramento County, California is strongly liberal.
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.
Gold River, 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 Gold River, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,988 contributions totaling $240,058 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 422 contributions totaling $108,577 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $257 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)