The city of Bakersfield, CA is located within Kern County and is the 11th largest city in California. The politics in 93311 Bakersfield, CA are mainly driven by the Kern County Board of Supervisors, which consists of five members serving four-year terms. These members are composed of supervisors from each of the five districts found within the county. Additionally, all five supervisors are elected to represent their respective districts at-large. The Board is responsible for setting policy related to taxation and budgeting, land use and development, infrastructure projects, public safety initiatives, and other local issues. Currently, Supervisor David Couch serves as Chairman of the Board. Bakersfield also has a mayor–illustrated by Karen Goh–and a number of city council members that govern the day-to-day operations within the city limits. Together these local leaders work together to ensure that Bakersfield remains a safe and thriving community for its citizens.
The political climate in Zip 93311 (Bakersfield, CA) is leaning conservative.
Kern County, CA is somewhat conservative. In Kern County, CA 43.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 53.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Kern county remained strongly Republican, 53.9% to 43.7%.
Kern county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 93311 (Bakersfield, CA) is leaning conservative.
Bakersfield, California is leaning conservative.
Kern County, California is somewhat conservative.
Bakersfield 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.
Bakersfield, 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 93311 (Bakersfield)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 802 contributions totaling $130,581 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $163 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 848 contributions totaling $2,067,631 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,438 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)