San Martin, California is a small town located in the southern portion of Santa Clara County. It has many attractive features for residents, from its rich and diverse culture to its thriving economy. Despite its small size, San Martin has an active political scene, with various local representatives advocating on behalf of their constituents. The community is served by two members of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mike Wasserman and Joe Simitian. Wasserman represents District 1 and Simitian represents District 5. Both officials are dedicated to creating a better quality of life for area residents and regularly attend community events to connect with their constituents. In addition to the Board of Supervisors, there are several other elected officials representing San Martin at the state level. These include Assembly Member Evan Low (District 28), State Senator Jim Beall (District 15) and U.S Representative Anna Eshoo (District 18). Overseeing all these representatives is Santa Clara County's top executive officer, Dave Cortese. With so many elected representatives looking out for San Martin's interests in Sacramento and Washington D.C., it is clear that the citizens have a voice in their government that can be heard loud and clear in state capitols around the country.
The political climate in San Martin, 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
San Martin, 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.
San Martin, 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 San Martin, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,868 contributions totaling $591,729 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $67 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,672 contributions totaling $341,225 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $204 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)