The politics in 94403 San Mateo, CA are largely dominated by the Democratic Party. The city is very progressive and has a strong reputation of supporting liberal causes. San Mateo is part of California's 12th congressional district, which has been represented by Democrat Jackie Speier since 2008. On the state level, the city is represented by three members of the California State Assembly — Kevin Mullin (D-22nd District), Marc Berman (D-24th District) and Phil Ting (D-19th District). On a local level, the City Council consists of seven members who are all Democrats. In addition to upholding its progressive values, San Mateo has worked towards making its government more transparent and accessible to its citizens with initiatives such as creating an online budget transparency portal for public use.
The political climate in Zip 94403 (San Mateo, 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 94403 (San Mateo, CA) is strongly liberal.
San Mateo, 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.
San Mateo, 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 94403 (San Mateo)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 7,591 contributions totaling $788,205 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $104 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 460 contributions totaling $761,930 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,656 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)