Avenal, California, located in the 93204 zip code, is a small city with a population of approximately 16,000 people. It is part of Kings County and falls within California’s 21st congressional district. Politically, Avenal leans heavily towards Democratic party candidates. In recent elections for the House of Representatives, Avenal has consistently voted for incumbent Representative T.J Cox and other Democrats by large margins. Furthermore, locally elected officials are largely Democrats with notable exceptions such as Mayor David Moore who resigned from the Democratic Party after being elected to his current position in 2018. Despite this, most local political candidates that run are Democratic-leaning and support a range of liberal causes such as green energy initiatives and civil rights protections.
The political climate in Zip 93204 (Avenal, CA) is leaning conservative.
Kings County, CA is somewhat conservative. In Kings County, CA 42.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 54.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kings county remained strongly Republican, 54.9% to 42.6%.
Kings county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 93204 (Avenal, CA) is leaning conservative.
Avenal, California is leaning conservative.
Kings County, California is somewhat conservative.
Hanford-Corcoran Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Avenal, 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 93204 (Avenal)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 10 contributions totaling $9,306 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $931 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 103 contributions totaling $13,830 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $134 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)