San Mateo County, California is an area with a strong political culture, and the current political climate in the county is one of continued progressive leadership. The Board of Supervisors is currently composed of five members, each representing their own particular district. These supervisors are responsible for governing the county's various issues including land use, public health and safety, economic development, and regional transportation planning. In addition to the Board of Supervisors, San Mateo County also has representation in both the California State Senate and Assembly. There are three state senators that serve San Mateo County: Senator Jerry Hill from District 13, Senator Anna Caballero from District 12, and Senator Scott Wiener from District 11. Furthermore, there are four assemblymembers who represent San Mateo County: Assemblymember Kevin Mullin from District 22; Assemblymember Marc Berman from District 24; Assemblymember Phil Ting from District 19; and Assemblymember David Chiu from District 17. All these elected officials work together to ensure that San Mateo County remains a safe place to live and work for everyone in the community.
The political climate in San Mateo County, CA is very liberal.
In San Mateo County, CA 77.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 20.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Mateo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 77.9% to 20.2%.
San Mateo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
San Mateo 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.
San Mateo, 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 San Mateo County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 161,417 contributions totaling $75,343,188 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $467 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 13,147 contributions totaling $16,344,859 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,243 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)