Huntington Beach, CA is located in Orange County, and its politics reflect many aspects of California’s larger political landscape. The city of Huntington Beach has a Council-Manager form of government, meaning that the seven-member City Council serves as the legislative branch, while the City Manager acts as the executive branch. Its representatives in Congress are Alan Lowenthal (D) and Harley Rouda (D), both for the 47th district of California. Additionally, local state representatives include Cottie Petrie-Norris (D) for the 74th Assembly District and John Moorlach (R) for the 37th Senate District. Huntington Beach locals are encouraged to become engaged with their city government by attending City Council meetings and participating in public conversations about issues that directly impact them.
The political climate in Zip 92649 (Huntington Beach, CA) is leaning liberal.
Orange County, CA is somewhat liberal. In Orange County, CA 53.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 44.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Orange county remained moderately Democratic, 53.5% to 44.4%.
Orange county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92649 (Huntington Beach, CA) is leaning liberal.
Huntington Beach, California is leaning liberal.
Orange County, California is somewhat liberal.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.
Huntington Beach, California: R R r r 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 92649 (Huntington Beach)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,388 contributions totaling $293,780 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,273 contributions totaling $582,793 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $458 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)