The city of San Marcos, California is located in San Diego County and has a population of 97,605 according to the 2019 estimates. The city is served by a five-member City Council consisting of a Mayor and four Council Members. The City Council is responsible for setting policy and creating laws that guide the operation of the city government. Each member is elected to serve a four-year term and can serve up to two consecutive terms. Currently, Rebecca Jones serves as Mayor, with Mike Preston, Sharon Jenkins, Chris Orlando, and Kristal Jabara as the City Council members. As one of the fastest growing cities in San Diego County, San Marcos’s political landscape continues to evolve in order to meet the needs of its residents. The City Council remains dedicated to creating an environment that fosters public safety while promoting economic opportunity for all citizens who live in this thriving community.
The political climate in Zip 92069 (San Marcos, CA) is moderately liberal.
San Diego County, CA is moderately liberal. In San Diego County, CA 60.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 37.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, San Diego county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.2% to 37.5%.
San Diego county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 92069 (San Marcos, CA) is moderately liberal.
San Marcos, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego County, California is moderately liberal.
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad Metro Area is moderately 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.
San Marcos, 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 92069 (San Marcos)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,041 contributions totaling $88,689 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $43 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 424 contributions totaling $118,822 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $280 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)