La Puente, California is a small city located in Los Angeles County. This city has a mayor-council form of government, where the Mayor and five City Council members are elected at large for four year terms. The Mayor is the chief executive officer and is responsible for policy direction while the City Council sets the budget, approves ordinances, and provides oversight of department operations. La Puente prides itself on being an actively engaged community with many organizations that support youth activities as well as culture and arts development. Residents take part in local politics by attending meetings or making their voices heard at events to help shape the future of the city. Overall, residents of La Puente place value on having a voice in their local government to make sure it's decisions benefit everyone within the community.
The political climate in La Puente, CA is strongly 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
La Puente, CA is strongly 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.
La Puente, 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 La Puente, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 657 contributions totaling $149,739 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $228 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 151 contributions totaling $289,271 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,916 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)