The city of Santa Clarita, California, is a part of Los Angeles County and is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Steve Knight (R). At the state level, Santa Clarita is served by Scott Wilk (R) in the California State Senate and Kipp Mueller (D) and Tom Lackey (R) in the California State Assembly. The city has a population of around 212,000 people according to 2018 estimates. Politically, Santa Clarita leans to the right with most registered voters belonging to the Republican Party. Locally, there are several political organizations active in promoting initiatives such as Voter Participation Day for eligible high school students to become more involved in local politics. Despite the partisan divide, residents of Santa Clarita remain dedicated to local issues like education, job growth and public safety.
The political climate in Zip 91354 (Santa Clarita, CA) is moderately liberal.
Los Angeles County, CA is very liberal. In Los Angeles County, CA 71.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 26.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Los Angeles county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 71.0% to 26.9%.
Los Angeles county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 91354 (Santa Clarita, CA) is moderately liberal.
Santa Clarita, California is moderately liberal.
Los Angeles County, California is very liberal.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.
Santa Clarita, 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 91354 (Santa Clarita)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 2,004 contributions totaling $132,879 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $66 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 317 contributions totaling $58,037 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $183 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)