Valley Center, California is a small rural community in San Diego County located about 30 miles north of downtown San Diego. The town is home to just over 10,000 people and boasts a strong sense of community and pride. Valley Center has an active local government that works to ensure the needs of its residents are being met. Locally elected officials include two county supervisors who oversee the county's various departments and services, and three school board members who manage the local schools. There are also two city council members who develop policies for the town and make sure laws are enforced. Valley Center is a vibrant and diverse community with a variety of political views represented through these elected officials and their constituents. In addition to the politics of local governance, Valley Center also hosts various events throughout the year such as farmers markets, holiday festivals, music concerts, outdoor movie nights, parades and more that draw both locals as well as tourists from around the area to enjoy all that this charming town has to offer.
The political climate in Valley Center, CA is leaning 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
Valley Center, CA is leaning 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.
Valley Center, 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 Valley Center, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,541 contributions totaling $213,021 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $60 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,963 contributions totaling $242,567 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $124 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)