Middletown, California is a small town located in Lake County, with a population of just over 1,300 people. This small rural community is served by the Lake County Board of Supervisors as their five-member governing body. Additionally, Middletown has an elected Mayor and Town Council to manage the day-to-day operations of the municipality. The current Mayor is Mike Kelley and he was first elected to office in 2016. The town council is made up of five members who are also elected by the citizens of Middletown. With only one polling place located in town, local elections typically see a low turnout from residents but there is much enthusiasm among those who do vote. In addition to its local government, Middletown relies on state and federal legislators to make sure that their voice is heard at all levels of government.
The political climate in Zip 95461 (Middletown, CA) is leaning liberal.
Lake County, CA is leaning liberal. In Lake County, CA 51.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lake county remained moderately Democratic, 51.5% to 45.3%.
Lake county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95461 (Middletown, CA) is leaning liberal.
Middletown, California is leaning liberal.
Lake County, California is leaning liberal.
Clearlake Metro Area is leaning 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.
Middletown, 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 zip 95461 (Middletown)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 380 contributions totaling $19,130 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $50 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 69 contributions totaling $2,147 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $31 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)