San Miguel, California is located in Contra Costa County and is an unincorporated area. The local politics in San Miguel are largely managed by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is responsible for ensuring the county’s services and programs are delivered to all residents, and they make decisions on how county funding should be allocated. Currently, the five board members representing San Miguel are Federal Glover, Diane Burgis, John Gioia, Candace Andersen and Karen Mitchoff. Each board member works to ensure that the unique needs of their district and constituents are addressed and fund accordingly. Through their leadership, they provide guidance on important issues such as public safety, public works projects , health care access initiatives and economic development programs.
The political climate in San Miguel (Contra Costa County), CA is moderately liberal.
Contra Costa County, CA is very liberal. In Contra Costa County, CA 71.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Contra Costa county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.6% to 26.3%.
Contra Costa county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Miguel (Contra Costa County), CA is moderately liberal.
Contra Costa County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 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 Miguel (Contra Costa 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 San Miguel (Contra Costa County), CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,171 contributions totaling $824,235 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 738 contributions totaling $5,803,318 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $7,864 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)