The city of Antioch, California has been a part of Contra Costa County since its founding in 1848. With a population of over 104,000 people, it is the second largest city in the county. Politically, Antioch is part of California's 15th Congressional District and is represented by Democrat Eric Swalwell. At the state level, it is located within California's 16th Senate District and represented by Senator Bill Dodd. On the local level, Antioch is governed by a five-member City Council elected by residents from four districts with one mayor elected at-large. The current mayor of Antioch is Sean Wright and the four council members include Lori Ogorchock, Monica Wilson, Monica Joseph and Lamar Thorpe. Each council member serves a four year term with term limits for mayor and council set at two terms consecutively for a total of eight years in office. All elections are conducted on an at-large basis via ranked choice voting to ensure fair representation across the entire city.
The political climate in Zip 94509 (Antioch, CA) is strongly liberal.
Contra Costa County, CA is very liberal. In Contra Costa County, CA 71.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Contra Costa county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.6% to 26.3%.
Contra Costa county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 94509 (Antioch, CA) is strongly liberal.
Antioch, California is strongly liberal.
Contra Costa County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley Metro Area is very 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.
Antioch, 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 94509 (Antioch)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,711 contributions totaling $84,183 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $49 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 260 contributions totaling $26,287 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $101 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)