West Sacramento is the largest city in Yolo County, located in Northern California. The politics of this city are heavily influenced by state and national politics. At the local level, West Sacramento has a mayor-council form of government. Currently, Christopher Cabaldon serves as the mayor of West Sacramento. He was elected in 2000 and has been re-elected multiple times since then. The City Council consists of five members including four councilmembers and one vice mayor, who are all elected directly by West Sacramento voters every two years. The current councilmembers are Kevin Spease, Mark Johannessen, Chris Ledesma, Martha Guerrero and Vice Mayor Gary Sousa. Together they serve to ensure that policies enacted at the state and federal level are beneficial to West Sacramento residents and businesses. Additionally, the City Council works to ensure that local citizens and businesses have access to resources needed for economic growth and stability.
The political climate in Zip 95691 (West Sacramento, CA) is strongly liberal.
Yolo County, CA is very liberal. In Yolo County, CA 69.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 28.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Yolo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 69.5% to 28.1%.
Yolo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95691 (West Sacramento, CA) is strongly liberal.
West Sacramento, California is strongly liberal.
Yolo County, California is very liberal.
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom 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.
West Sacramento, 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 95691 (West Sacramento)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,130 contributions totaling $158,809 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $75 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 354 contributions totaling $51,634 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $146 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)