Orinda, CA 94563 is a city located in the San Francisco Bay Area with a population of around 19,000 people. Orinda has a strong local government that is actively involved in the community. The City Council of Orinda consists of five members who are elected to four-year terms. All council members work together to create policies and budgets for the city. Additionally, the Mayor of Orinda is elected to a two-year term by popular vote and presides over all meetings of the City Council. In addition to local representation on the City Council, Orinda also has representatives at both state and federal levels. At the state level, Senator Steve Glazer has been representing Orinda since 2015 while Congresswoman Barbara Lee serves as our federal representative since 1998 in the U.S House of Representatives. Residents can get involved in local politics by voting in elections and attending public meetings held by their representatives.
The political climate in Zip 94563 (Orinda, CA) is strongly liberal.
Contra Costa County, CA is very liberal. In Contra Costa County, CA 71.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Contra Costa county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.6% to 26.3%.
Contra Costa county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 94563 (Orinda, CA) is strongly liberal.
Orinda, California is strongly liberal.
Contra Costa County, California is very liberal.
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 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.
Orinda, 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 94563 (Orinda)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8,556 contributions totaling $2,013,735 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $235 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 960 contributions totaling $381,003 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $397 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)