The city of Mount Hamilton in 95140 is an unincorporated area in Santa Clara County, California. This small community is governed by the Board of Supervisors from the Santa Clara County Government. The current board members are Joe Simitian, Mike Wasserman, Dave Cortese, Cindy Chavez, and Susan Ellenberg. All five of them are actively involved in deciding policy and legislation that affects Mount Hamilton. In addition, they also work with community groups and organizations to ensure that the citizens of Mount Hamilton have a voice and a say in their own governance. These representatives regularly attend public forums and meetings to stay up to date on local issues and concerns that affect the citizens of Mount Hamilton. This allows them to make informed decisions when it comes to governing this rural area of California.
The political climate in Zip 95140 (Mount Hamilton, CA) is moderately liberal.
Santa Clara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Clara County, CA 72.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 25.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Clara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 72.6% to 25.2%.
Santa Clara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 95140 (Mount Hamilton, CA) is moderately liberal.
Mount Hamilton, California is moderately liberal.
Santa Clara County, California is very liberal.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 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.
Mount Hamilton, 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 95140 (Mount Hamilton)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 494 contributions totaling $60,724 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $123 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 29 contributions totaling $32,350 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,116 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)