Winter Gardens, CA is a vibrant community located in the San Diego area. Politically, it is a highly active and engaged town that has several local political candidates running for office at any given time. The local elections are always hotly contested, as residents of Winter Gardens take their civic duty to vote seriously. These elections are important to the overall health and growth of the city and its citizens, as they help determine who is in charge of making key decisions about policy and infrastructure. With an ever changing population, new issues arise regularly, requiring fresh perspectives from people who are passionate about the city's future. As such, Winter Gardens continues to be an exciting place to live politically, with plenty of options for residents to make their voices heard through voting and campaigning.
The political climate in Winter Gardens, 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
Winter Gardens, 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.
Winter Gardens, 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 Winter Gardens, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 6,020 contributions totaling $559,786 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,762 contributions totaling $666,626 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $378 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)