The politics in Live Oak CDP, CA are represented by the city and county government. The county of Santa Cruz is governed by a board of supervisors that is elected by its citizens to serve four-year terms. The city council of Live Oak CDP consists of seven members, who are also elected to serve four-year terms. County supervisors and city council members focus on issues that affect the local community such as public safety, economic development, infrastructure improvement, environmental protection, and other public services. Local political candidates are determined through democratic elections that take place every two years. The various candidates promote their platforms to the citizens of Live Oak CDP and surrounding areas in order to gain support for their candidacy.
The political climate in Live Oak CDP (Santa Cruz County), CA is strongly liberal.
Santa Cruz County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Cruz County, CA 78.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 18.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Cruz county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 78.4% to 18.5%.
Santa Cruz county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Live Oak CDP (Santa Cruz County), CA is strongly liberal.
Santa Cruz County, California is very liberal.
Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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.
Live Oak CDP (Santa Cruz County), 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 Live Oak CDP (Santa Cruz County), CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 15,602 contributions totaling $897,437 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 591 contributions totaling $71,311 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $121 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)