Rancho Santa Fe, CA is known for its affluent population of residents and their involvement in local politics. The area prides itself on maintaining a high level of civic engagement, with many of the residents actively participating in local politics and working to make their community a better place to live. In recent years, Rancho Santa Fe has seen a surge of new candidates running for local office, each of them eager to represent the interests of constituents and play an active role in the community's decision-making process. These candidates come from diverse backgrounds and have varied views on how best to serve the community, but all are united in their commitment to improving life in Rancho Santa Fe.
The political climate in Rancho Santa Fe, CA is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, CA is moderately liberal. In San Diego County, CA 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Diego county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 37.5%.
San Diego county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Rancho Santa Fe, CA is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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.
Rancho Santa Fe, 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 Rancho Santa Fe, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,735 contributions totaling $1,864,096 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $499 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,712 contributions totaling $2,686,037 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $990 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)