Redwood City, CA is located in San Mateo County and is home to an estimated 85,664 people as of 2019. The city's Mayor is John Seybert, who has served since 2011. Redwood City's nine-member City Council, which includes the mayor, serves as the legislative body of the city government. Other significant political figures from Redwood City include Congresswoman Jackie Speier and State Senator Jerry Hill. The city council meets on the first and third Mondays of each month at City Hall to conduct public hearings for ordinances, make decisions regarding city policies and budgets, and review reports from various commissions. Overall, Redwood City is a vibrant community with many opportunities for civic engagement in local politics.
The political climate in Zip 94062 (Redwood City, CA) is strongly liberal.
San Mateo County, CA is very liberal. In San Mateo County, CA 77.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 20.2% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.9% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Mateo county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 77.9% to 20.2%.
San Mateo county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 94062 (Redwood City, CA) is strongly liberal.
Redwood City, California is strongly liberal.
San Mateo 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.
Redwood City, 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 94062 (Redwood City)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 12,874 contributions totaling $7,942,034 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $617 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,563 contributions totaling $3,572,144 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $2,285 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)