The vibrant community of Garberville, CA (95542) is known for its strong sense of local politics. As the county seat of Humboldt County, the area is home to many active citizens who make their voices heard. The town enjoys a diverse political landscape with candidates from all major parties, providing residents with a wide range of choices within their local government. Residents are engaged in discussions about issues that matter to them and can often be found at town hall meetings discussing potential solutions to various problems. The people in this area are passionate about their local politics and take their civic duty very seriously; they are eager to ensure that their voices are heard through the voting process.
The political climate in Zip 95542 (Garberville, CA) is moderately liberal.
Humboldt County, CA is very liberal. In Humboldt County, CA 64.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 4.2% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Humboldt county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.5% to 31.4%.
Humboldt county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95542 (Garberville, CA) is moderately liberal.
Garberville, California is moderately liberal.
Humboldt County, California is very liberal.
Eureka-Arcata 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.
Garberville, 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 95542 (Garberville)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 520 contributions totaling $42,307 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 36 contributions totaling $6,185 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $172 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)