Thousand Oaks, CA is a city in the state of California with a population of 129,339. It is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area and is located in Ventura County. Thousand Oaks is known for its excellent school districts, high quality of life, and strong economy. Politically, the city leans conservative, with its U.S. congressional representative being Republican Steve Knight. At the local level, Thousand Oaks is served by five members on the City Council: Mayor Claudia Bill-De La Pena and councilmembers Rob McCoy, Andy Fox, Lavonna Martin-Casey, and Al Adam. All are Republicans except for Martin-Casey who was elected as an Independent. The City Council has a strong record of fiscal responsibility and ensuring that taxpayer dollars are spent wisely while providing vital public services to the community.
The political climate in Zip 91320 (Thousand Oaks, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Ventura County, CA is moderately liberal. In Ventura County, CA 59.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 38.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Ventura county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 59.5% to 38.4%.
Ventura county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 91320 (Thousand Oaks, CA) is somewhat liberal.
Thousand Oaks, California is somewhat liberal.
Ventura County, California is moderately liberal.
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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.
Thousand Oaks, 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 91320 (Thousand Oaks)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,974 contributions totaling $2,030,909 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $511 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 665 contributions totaling $257,981 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $388 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)