Marin County, California has been represented in the state legislature since 1883 and is currently served by four members of the Assembly and one member in the Senate. Marin County has a long history of progressive politics focused on environmental protection, social justice, education, and public safety. The County Board of Supervisors includes five elected members who are responsible for setting policy in areas including housing, health care, public works, public safety, and transportation. Additionally, Marin voters elect several local mayors and city council members to represent their communities. Furthermore, Marin participates in a variety of regional coalitions that address issues such as affordable housing supply, economic development opportunities, workforce development initiatives, and environmental protection projects. In recent years there have been efforts to increase voter participation in local elections through implementation of campaign finance reforms which limit large corporate donations to political candidates. These measures have helped to ensure that decisions made at the local level reflect the will of Marin County residents.
The political climate in Marin County, CA is very liberal.
In Marin County, CA 82.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 15.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Marin county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 82.3% to 15.8%.
Marin county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Marin 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.
Marin, 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 Marin County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 139,123 contributions totaling $25,030,295 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $180 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 8,048 contributions totaling $3,642,725 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $453 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)