St. Helena is located in Los Angeles County, California and has a rich political history. The county government provides many services to the local community, including parks, public safety, transportation, health services, and more. The county is divided into five supervisors who are elected to represent the closest district to their constituency. Every two years, the residents of St. Helena have an opportunity to vote for one of these five supervisors in an election held by the county clerk-recorder's office. The current supervisor is Kathryn Barger who has held this position since 2015. In addition to county-level governance, there are also a number of state representatives that serve St. Helena and surrounding areas in Sacramento. These representatives help shape state policies that affect everyone living in California and ensure that local communities receive adequate funding for public services such as police protection and infrastructure improvements.
The political climate in St. Helena County, LA is somewhat liberal.
In St. Helena County, LA 54.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, St. Helena parish remained strongly Democratic, 54.3% to 44.1%.
St. Helena county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
St. Helena County, LA is somewhat liberal.
Baton Rouge Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Louisiana is moderately conservative.
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.
St. Helena, Louisiana: 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 St. Helena County, LA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 20 contributions totaling $823 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $41 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 33 contributions totaling $9,810 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $297 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)