Santee, CA is a small city located in San Diego county. It is a vibrant and diverse community with a thriving local government. Santee is served by a five-member City Council and Mayor Randy Voepel. The City Council meets regularly to discuss matters of importance to the city, from budgeting to public safety initiatives. They also appoint members of the Planning Commission, Traffic Safety Commission, Economic Development Committee and Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee. The Mayor acts as chairperson for the council meetings and works closely with all other members of the council to ensure that issues are addressed in an efficient manner. Additionally, Santee has several local political organizations such as the Santee Democratic Club and the Santee Republican Club that help engage citizens in politics at the local level.
The political climate in Santee, 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
Santee, 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.
Santee, 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 Santee, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,640 contributions totaling $693,038 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $91 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,457 contributions totaling $793,546 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $323 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)