Santa Maria, California is a medium-sized city located in the beautiful Central Coast region of the state. Its political climate is reflective of the diversity of its population, with voting trends generally split down the middle between liberal and conservative candidates. The current Mayor is Alice Patino, who has held office since 2012 and is highly respected by both sides of the political spectrum for her work in promoting progressive policies within her community. Additionally, local representatives for the 93454 area are State Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R) and State Senator Monique Limon (D). Both have made significant strides towards improving infrastructure, education, and other services important to Santa Maria residents. Together with Mayor Patino's leadership, they have worked to make Santa Maria a safe and thriving community for all its citizens.
The political climate in Zip 93454 (Santa Maria, CA) is strongly liberal.
Santa Barbara County, CA is very liberal. In Santa Barbara County, CA 64.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 32.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Santa Barbara county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.5% to 32.6%.
Santa Barbara county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 93454 (Santa Maria, CA) is strongly liberal.
Santa Maria, California is strongly liberal.
Santa Barbara County, California is very liberal.
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria, 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 93454 (Santa Maria)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 738 contributions totaling $59,513 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 303 contributions totaling $71,103 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $235 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)