The city of Escondido, CA is located in San Diego County and has a population of approximately 150,000 people. The city is governed by a five-member City Council elected from four wards spread across the community. The Mayor and four Council Members are all chosen at-large, meaning all registered voters in Escondido can vote for all the members. Currently, Paul Gabriel is the Mayor of Escondido and the other council members are Michael Morasco, Ed Gallo, Consuelo Martinez, and John Masson. Every two years an election is held to determine who will serve as mayor and which council members will be given new terms. This year's election will be held on November 3rd 2020. In addition to local elections, citizens of Escondido also vote in state and federal elections including elections for governor or president.
The political climate in Zip 92025 (Escondido, 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 92025 (Escondido, CA) is moderately liberal.
Escondido, 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.
Escondido, 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 92025 (Escondido)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,959 contributions totaling $150,128 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $77 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 544 contributions totaling $171,728 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $316 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)