Rancho Santa Fe is a small and affluent community located in San Diego County, California. Politically, the area is generally conservative and most of the local candidates running for office reflect that orientation. Local elections tend to focus on issues such as public safety, education reform, infrastructure improvements and fiscal responsibility. Most of the candidates in Rancho Santa Fe support lower taxes, smaller government and state-level regulation. It is also important to them to protect their community's quality of life by preserving its rural character and environment, while also responding responsibly to growth and development. Residents here are passionate about maintaining the town's unique culture and are committed to ensuring it remains an attractive place to live.
The political climate in Zip 92091 (Rancho Santa Fe, 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 92091 (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Rancho Santa Fe, 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.
Rancho Santa Fe, 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 92091 (Rancho Santa Fe)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 469 contributions totaling $43,430 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $93 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 290 contributions totaling $123,529 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $426 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)