Yolo County, California is located in the Central Valley region of California and is home to nearly 200,000 residents. It is a predominantly rural area with rolling hills and vast farmland. Yolo County has had a long history of political engagement among its citizens, with many organizations dedicated to local issues and government policy. The county government is primarily composed of a five-member Board of Supervisors that are elected by district and serve alternating terms of four years each. A number of other elected offices include the District Attorney, Assessor-Recorder, Auditor-Controller, Sheriff-Coroner, Clerk Treasurer-Tax Collector, Superintendent of Schools and Superior Court Judges. There are also several special districts in Yolo County governing water resources and transportation services. At the state level, Yolo County's residents are represented in the California State Senate by Senator Bill Dodd and in the State Assembly by Cecilia Aguiar-Curry. Voters in Yolo have consistently shown support for Democratic candidates in state elections since 2000.
The political climate in Yolo County, CA is very liberal.
In Yolo County, CA 69.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 28.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yolo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 69.5% to 28.1%.
Yolo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yolo County, CA is very liberal.
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom 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.
Yolo, 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 Yolo County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 37,027 contributions totaling $3,561,884 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,836 contributions totaling $1,424,724 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $502 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)