Solano County, located in Northern California, is home to several cities with diverse political climates. While the county itself is represented by a nonpartisan Board of Supervisors, the cities within it feature council members and mayors chosen from both major parties. Additionally, certain townships in Solano may have local representatives running for office from one of the two main political alliances. As such, those living in Solano enjoy a variety of different perspectives and agendas on local issues that are up for debate. As citizens of Solano continue to engage in their collective civic duties, they help ensure that their communities remain politically active and informed on matters at all levels of government.
The political climate in Solano County, CA is strongly liberal.
In Solano County, CA 63.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 33.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Solano county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 63.6% to 33.5%.
Solano county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Solano County, CA is strongly liberal.
Vallejo Metro Area is strongly 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.
Solano, 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 Solano County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 31,133 contributions totaling $1,640,828 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 3,819 contributions totaling $752,380 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $197 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)