El Cajon, CA, located in San Diego County, is home to a diverse population of approximately 100,700 people. The city has a rich history and culture that can be attributed to its longstanding Native American presence and the rapid influx of people from many different countries throughout the years. Politically, El Cajon is represented at the local level by an elected City Council composed of five members who each serve four-year terms. Currently sitting on the council are Mayor Bill Wells, Vice Mayor Gary Kendrick, Councilmembers Mark Lewis, Steve Goble and Star Bales. At the state level, El Cajon is represented by California's 80th Assembly district member Lorena Gonzalez; California's 38th Senate district member Brian W. Jones; and U.S. Representative for California's 53rd congressional district Susan Davis. All three representatives have dedicated themselves to working for El Cajon residents' needs on a variety of issues including public safety, transportation infrastructure improvements and local jobs initiatives.
The political climate in Zip 92020 (El Cajon, CA) is moderately liberal.
San Diego County, CA is moderately liberal. In San Diego County, CA 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Diego county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 37.5%.
San Diego county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92020 (El Cajon, CA) is moderately liberal.
El Cajon, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego County, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 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.
El Cajon, California: r r 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 92020 (El Cajon)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,620 contributions totaling $133,252 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $82 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 695 contributions totaling $126,920 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)