Toro Canyon is a community located in Ventura County, California. The community is relatively small, with a population of just over 1,000 people. The politics in Toro Canyon are therefore fairly localized and focused on the community itself. Candidates for local office are typically well-known within the community and residents often have a good idea of where they stand on local issues. In general, the politics of Toro Canyon tend to be fairly moderate, with residents tending to care more about practical solutions than ideology.
The political climate in Toro Canyon, CA is somewhat liberal.
Santa Barbara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Barbara County, CA 64.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 32.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Barbara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.5% to 32.6%.
Santa Barbara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Toro Canyon, CA is somewhat liberal.
Santa Barbara County, California is very liberal.
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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.
Toro Canyon, 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 Toro Canyon, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 18,727 contributions totaling $4,908,255 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $262 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,862 contributions totaling $2,366,094 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,271 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)