Los Altos Hills, CA is a small, affluent suburban community located in the San Francisco Bay Area. As such, it has a number of local elected representatives that work to ensure the needs of the community are met. The mayor and Board of Supervisors are all elected within the town limits, while the city government is responsible for providing services such as police protection, public works projects, and parks/recreation programs. Additionally, Los Altos Hills elects representatives to both state and federal offices to help promote their interests in politics and policy making. This is especially important given that California’s size and diversity often means special attention has to be paid to matters affecting local communities such as Los Altos Hills. Local elections provide citizens with an opportunity to make their voices heard on a variety of issues impacting their lives. By participating in these elections, residents can influence how their community moves forward and protect its resources for generations to come.
The political climate in Los Altos Hills, CA is moderately liberal.
Santa Clara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Clara County, CA 72.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 25.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Clara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.6% to 25.2%.
Santa Clara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Los Altos Hills, CA is moderately liberal.
Santa Clara County, California is very liberal.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 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.
Los Altos Hills, 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 Los Altos Hills, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 46,419 contributions totaling $37,958,444 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $818 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 7,471 contributions totaling $7,051,404 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $944 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)