Seal Beach, CA is a city located on the coast in Orange County with a population of over 24,000. The city is governed by a five-member City Council whose members are elected by constituents to serve four-year terms. The current Mayor of Seal Beach is Joe Muller and the Vice Mayor is Ellery Deaton. The City Council sets policies that guide the development and growth of the city as well as providing services such as public safety, libraries, parks, recreation programs and more. In addition to the City Council, there are several local political candidates that run for office each election cycle to represent and serve their community. These candidates are committed to making positive changes in their communities and strive to ensure everyone’s voice is heard in local politics.
The political climate in Seal Beach, CA is leaning liberal.
Orange County, CA is somewhat liberal. In Orange County, CA 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Orange county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.4%.
Orange county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Seal Beach, CA is leaning liberal.
Orange County, California is somewhat liberal.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.
Seal Beach, California: R R r r 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 Seal Beach, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 14,509 contributions totaling $1,345,308 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 5,163 contributions totaling $1,371,701 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $266 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)