San Pablo, CA is a small city located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a population of over 30,000. As a predominantly Latino city, local politics focus on issues that are pertinent to the community such as immigration reform, affordable housing and economic development. The City Council is composed of five members elected by the people of San Pablo to serve four year terms. Currently, the Mayor is Rich Kinney and the Vice Mayor is Veronica Martinez-Mendoza. All residents are encouraged to take part in the political process in order to have their voices heard at City Hall.
The political climate in San Pablo, CA is strongly 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 Pablo, CA is strongly 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 Pablo, 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 Pablo, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 17,552 contributions totaling $1,281,118 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $73 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 836 contributions totaling $207,818 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $249 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)