Sonoma County is located in California just north of San Francisco and covers an area of over 1,800 square miles. It is home to close to 500,000 residents and has a vibrant local political scene. The county is led by a five-member Board of Supervisors which includes Chris Coursey, David Rabbitt, Susan Gorin, James Gore and Shirlee Zane. Each supervisor represents the interests of their respective district in the county and work together to create policy that affects all areas of Sonoma County. This includes public safety issues such as fire prevention, infrastructure projects like roads and bridges, parks and recreation, economic development initiatives and more. Ultimately, each supervisor works towards creating a better quality of life for everyone in Sonoma County. Additionally, local cities within Sonoma County have mayors or city councils depending on the size or type of government they have chosen to operate under. The leaders at these levels also work to represent the interests of their constituents while attempting to better the lives of all those living in Sonoma County as a whole.
The political climate in Sonoma County, CA is very liberal.
In Sonoma County, CA 74.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 23.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sonoma county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.5% to 23.0%.
Sonoma county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Sonoma County, CA is very liberal.
Santa Rosa-Petaluma 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.
Sonoma, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 Sonoma County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 113,568 contributions totaling $11,056,381 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $97 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 7,013 contributions totaling $3,952,304 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $564 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)