Alameda, California is located in Alameda County and is a vibrant and diverse area with deep political roots. The county is part of the 9th Congressional District and is represented in Congress by Barbara Lee. The county also has a Board of Supervisors that oversees local government operations, with Wilma Chan serving as the current President of the Board. Alameda County also has several state legislative representatives including Rob Bonta and Buffy Wicks in the Assembly and Nancy Skinner in the Senate. At the local level, Alameda has many city council members who are responsible for municipal matters such as budget approval, zoning decisions, public safety issues, and services related to parks, libraries, recreation centers, and transportation.
The political climate in Alameda County, CA is very liberal.
In Alameda County, CA 79.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 17.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Alameda county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 79.8% to 17.6%.
Alameda county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Alameda County, CA is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 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.
Alameda, 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 Alameda County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 386,507 contributions totaling $54,978,738 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $142 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 16,153 contributions totaling $4,485,176 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $278 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)