Yuba County, located in Northern California, is known for its agricultural roots and is home to over 75,000 citizens. It is a politically diverse county with both Democratic and Republican elected officials at the local level. In the last several years there have been many changes to the political landscape of this region; including shifts in party affiliations among the county’s Board of Supervisors and County Clerk. Candidates from both parties are regularly seen campaigning throughout Yuba County, speaking to local issues such as water conservation and infrastructure projects. Recent elections have also focused on issues such as education and public health initiatives that affect the entire Yuba County community. With recent changes in leadership at local levels of government, Yuba County looks forward to a bright future for all its citizens regardless of political affiliation.
The political climate in Yuba County, CA is moderately conservative.
In Yuba County, CA 37.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 59.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yuba county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 59.3% to 37.7%.
Yuba county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yuba County, CA is moderately conservative.
Yuba City Metro Area is moderately conservative.
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.
Yuba, California: R R R R R R
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 Yuba County, CA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,355 contributions totaling $101,130 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 514 contributions totaling $72,554 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $141 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)