Lake Nacimiento is located in the San Luis Obispo County, California and is governed by the Board of Supervisors, which consists of 5 members who are elected to 4-year terms. The Board of Supervisors is responsible for formulating and adopting policies for the county, including determining local taxes. One of the most recent supervisor elections took place in March 2020 when incumbent John Peschong was reelected to a fourth term. He has served as District 1 Supervisor since 2011. Other current supervisors include Lynn Compton (District 4), Bruce Gibson (District 2), Dawn Ortiz-Legg (District 3) and Debbie Arnold (District 5). All five supervisors strive to promote economic development, public safety, health care services and infrastructure throughout the county, including in Lake Nacimiento.
The political climate in Lake Nacimiento, CA is leaning conservative.
San Luis Obispo County, CA is somewhat liberal. In San Luis Obispo County, CA 55.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Luis Obispo county remained strongly Democratic, 55.3% to 42.2%.
San Luis Obispo county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Lake Nacimiento, CA is leaning conservative.
San Luis Obispo County, California is somewhat liberal.
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Lake Nacimiento, California: R r 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 Lake Nacimiento, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,697 contributions totaling $120,054 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $45 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 690 contributions totaling $133,191 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $193 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)