Mountain Center, California is a small town located in Riverside County, near Idyllwild and Palm Desert. Although it is a small town, it still has an active political system. Local politics in Mountain Center are governed by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and the local representatives for the California State Assembly and Senate. The current supervisor is V. Manuel Perez, with district offices located in Coachella. Other local representatives in the Assembly and Senate include Chad Mayes, Mark Stone, and Eloise Gómez Reyes respectively. Each representative works hard to ensure that the people of Mountain Center have their voices heard on issues such as healthcare, education funding, immigration policy, and more. In addition to elected representatives at state and county levels, Mountain Center also has an active civic organization, the Idyllwild/Pine Cove Civic Association (IPCCA). The IPCCA works closely with local politicians to ensure that Mountain Center’s unique needs are met when it comes to community development projects or other initiatives.
The political climate in Zip 92561 (Mountain Center, CA) is leaning liberal.
Riverside County, CA is leaning liberal. In Riverside County, CA 53.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 45.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Riverside county remained moderately Democratic, 53.0% to 45.0%.
Riverside county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92561 (Mountain Center, CA) is leaning liberal.
Mountain Center, California is leaning liberal.
Riverside County, California is leaning liberal.
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metro Area is somewhat 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.
Mountain Center, 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 92561 (Mountain Center)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 143 contributions totaling $7,982 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $56 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 70 contributions totaling $21,043 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $301 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)