Sutter Creek, California is a small city located in Amador County in the Sierra Nevada foothills. It is a quaint and picturesque community known for its downtown historic district of Gold Rush era buildings and charming shops. The population of Sutter Creek is approximately 2,775 people, making it one of the smallest cities in California. Politically, the city of Sutter Creek has a nonpartisan government with five council members elected at large to serve four-year terms. The mayor serves as head of the council and is elected from among the council members every two years. Local elections are held regularly with a variety of candidates running on various platforms and issues. Many citizens take an active interest in local politics, attending meetings to voice their opinions and support their candidates of choice.
The political climate in Zip 95685 (Sutter Creek, CA) is moderately conservative.
Amador County, CA is strongly conservative. In Amador County, CA 36.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 60.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Amador county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 60.7% to 36.4%.
Amador county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95685 (Sutter Creek, CA) is moderately conservative.
Sutter Creek, California is moderately conservative.
Amador County, California is strongly conservative.
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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.
Sutter Creek, California: R R R R R R
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 95685 (Sutter Creek)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 566 contributions totaling $29,727 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $53 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 153 contributions totaling $19,088 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $125 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)