Yuba City, located in California's Sutter County, is a small city with a population of approximately 64,925 people. Although it is relatively small, the politics of Yuba City are essential for the success and well-being of its citizens. Locally, Yuba City is governed by a mayor-council system. The five members of the City Council are elected at-large to staggered four-year terms. Elections take place every two years for either three or two councilmembers. The Mayor is also elected at large to a four year term and presides over meetings but has no additional authority beyond other councilmembers. The Mayor serves as the ceremonial head of government in Yuba City. All five councilmembers create and pass laws that benefit residents as well as oversee the budget, local projects, public works issues such as water and sewers, parks and recreation programs, police and fire services and city planning issues.
The political climate in Zip 95993 (Yuba City, CA) is somewhat conservative.
Sutter County, CA is moderately conservative. In Sutter County, CA 40.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Sutter county remained very strongly Republican, 57.2% to 40.7%.
Sutter county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95993 (Yuba City, CA) is somewhat conservative.
Yuba City, California is somewhat conservative.
Sutter County, California is moderately conservative.
Yuba City Metro Area is moderately conservative.
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.
Yuba City, 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 95993 (Yuba City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,053 contributions totaling $61,248 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $58 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 834 contributions totaling $134,831 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $162 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)