Carlsbad, CA is a beautiful city located in San Diego County. It is home to many popular tourist attractions such as LEGOLAND California and the Carlsbad Flower Fields. Politically, the city of Carlsbad is represented by different levels of government. On the federal level, both the United States Senate and House of Representatives are represented by Senator Kamala Harris and Congressman Mike Levin, respectively. On the state level, California's 39th Senate District includes Carlsbad and is represented by State Senator Toni Atkins. The 76th Assembly District which includes most of Carlsbad is represented by Assemblyman Randy Voepel. On the local level, including within 92011 specifically, the mayor of Carlsbad is Matt Hall who was elected in 2016. The City Council consists of five members who are elected to four-year terms: Cori Schumacher (Mayor Pro Tem), Keith Blackburn, Michael Schumacher, Priya Bhat-Patel, and Barbara Hamilton.
The political climate in Zip 92011 (Carlsbad, CA) is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, CA is moderately liberal. In San Diego County, CA 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Diego county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 37.5%.
San Diego county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92011 (Carlsbad, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Carlsbad, California is somewhat liberal.
San Diego County, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad Metro Area is moderately 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.
Carlsbad, California: r r 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 zip 92011 (Carlsbad)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,753 contributions totaling $297,864 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $79 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 627 contributions totaling $226,491 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $361 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)